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==Early life==
Moore was born November 11, 1962, in [[Roswell, New Mexico]]. Her biological father, [[U.S. Air Force|Air Force]] airman Charles Foster Harmon Sr.,<ref name="Demi Moore's Long-Lost Siblings: We Can Save Her">{{cite web |title=Demi Moore's Long-Lost Siblings: We Can Save Her |url=https://okmagazine.com/news/demi-moores-long-lost-siblings-we-can-save-her/ |website=[[OK!]] [[Star (magazine)|Magazine]] |date=February 12, 2012 |access-date=September 15, 2019 |archive-date=August 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811094453/https://okmagazine.com/news/demi-moores-long-lost-siblings-we-can-save-her/ |url-status=live }}</ref> left her then 18-year-old mother, Virginia (née King),<ref>{{cite web|title=Beverley Virginia King, Born 11/27/1943 in California|url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/beverley_virginia_king_born_1943_2657822|website=californiabirthindex.org|access-date=May 31, 2023|archive-date=July 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716213415/https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/beverley_virginia_king_born_1943_2657822|url-status=live}}</ref> after a two-month marriage before Moore's
Moore's stepfather Dan Guynes married and divorced Virginia twice.<ref>"Demi Moore." ''[[E! True Hollywood Story]]''. S7, E28. June 1, 2003.</ref> On October 20, 1980, a year after their second divorce from each other, Guynes died by suicide.<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" /><ref>"Found Dead". ''Carlsbad Current-Argus''. October 23, 1980. p. 4.</ref> Her biological father Harmon died in 1997 from liver cancer in [[Brazoria, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=DAD IS DYING DEMI .. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH; Brother's plea for star to call off rift. - Free Online Library|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/DAD+IS+DYING+DEMI+..+PLEASE+GET+IN+TOUCH;+Brother%27s+plea+for+star+to...-a061060590|website=www.thefreelibrary.com|access-date=November 24, 2020|archive-date=October 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008210200/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/DAD+IS+DYING+DEMI+..+PLEASE+GET+IN+TOUCH%3B+Brother%27s+plea+for+star+to...-a061060590|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>"Demi's dad dies in rift". ''Birmingham Evening Mail''. November 20, 1997. p. 4.</ref> Moore's mother had a long arrest record which included [[drunk driving]] and [[arson]].<ref name="Fox News">{{cite news|last=Murphy|first=Meagan|date=January 25, 2012|title=Demi Moore's hospitalization puts spotlight on alleged past demons|work=[[Fox News]]|url=http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/25/demi-moores-hospitalization-puts-spotlight-on-her-alleged-history-substance/|access-date=September 28, 2012|archive-date=October 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002131644/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/25/demi-moores-hospitalization-puts-spotlight-on-her-alleged-history-substance/|url-status=live}}</ref> Moore broke off contact with her in 1989, when Guynes walked away halfway through a rehab stay Moore had financed at the [[Hazelden Foundation]] in Minnesota.<ref name="Eye of the Tiger"/> Virginia Guynes posed nude for the magazine ''[[High Society (magazine)|High Society]]'' in 1993,<ref name="'Tomorrow' has come">{{cite news|last=Blowen|first=Michael|date=February 10, 1993|title='Tomorrow' has come|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61734946.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+10%2C+1993&author=Michael+Blowen%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=%60Tomorrow%27+has+come&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131162747/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61734946.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+10,+1993&author=Michael+Blowen,+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=%60Tomorrow'+has+come&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013}}</ref> where she spoofed Moore's ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' pregnancy and bodypaint covers and parodied her clay scene from ''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]''. Moore and Guynes reconciled shortly before Guynes died of a brain tumor on July 2, 1998.<ref name="Dreams Die Hard">{{cite web|last=Gliatto|first=Tom|date=July 13, 1998|title=Dreams Die Hard|url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-dreams-die-hard-vol-49-no-27/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908182714/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20125762%2C00.html|archive-date=September 8, 2015|access-date=September 26, 2012|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=49|issue=27}}</ref>
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Moore spent her early childhood in Roswell, and later, [[Canonsburg, Pennsylvania]].{{sfn|Moore|2019|pages=17, 27}} Bob Gardner, a photographer for the ''Monongahela Daily Herald'' when Dan Guynes was head of advertising, recalled that Moore "looked [[malnourished]] and not so much abused as [[child neglect|neglected]]. That haunting look as a child made me feel uneasy."<ref>Templeton, David (November 12, 1995). "Demi Now and Then". ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. p. W-5.</ref> She suffered from [[strabismus]], which was corrected by two operations, as well as kidney dysfunction.<ref name=biochannel>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/demi-moore.html |title=Demi Moore |publisher=The Biography Channel UK |access-date=February 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330074250/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/demi-moore.html |archive-date=March 30, 2010 }}</ref> Moore learned that Guynes was not her real father at age 13, when she discovered a marriage certificate and inquired about the circumstances since she "saw my parents were married in February 1963. I was born in '62."<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" />
At age 14, Moore returned to her hometown of Roswell and lived with her grandmother for six months before relocating to [[Washington (state)|Washington state]], where her recently separated mother was residing near [[Seattle]].{{Sfn|Moore|2019|pages=29–33}} Several months later, the family moved again to [[West Hollywood, California]], where Moore's mother took a job working for a magazine distribution company.<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" /> Moore attended [[Fairfax High School, West Hollywood, California|Fairfax High School]] there.<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" /> She moved out of her family's house the day after her 16th birthday and quit high school in her junior year to work as a receptionist at [[20th Century Fox]], a job she secured through her then-boyfriend Tom Dunston's mother.{{sfn|Moore|2019|page=24}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Demi, More or Less |first= Walter |last= Thomas |journal= Scene|date=January 1987|page=33 (unnumbered)}}</ref>
In 2019, she stated she was raped at 15 by landlord Basil Doumas, then 49.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theblast.com/c/demi-moore-book-rape-interview-howard-stern-val-dumas-rapist-daughters/|work=The Blast|title=Demi Moore Reveals To Howard Stern Her Rapist Had A Daughter Her Age|author=Mike Walters|date=October 9, 2019|access-date=May 31, 2023|archive-date=July 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011952/https://theblast.com/c/demi-moore-book-rape-interview-howard-stern-val-dumas-rapist-daughters/|url-status=live}}</ref> Doumas claimed he had paid Moore's mother to get access to Moore to rape her, although Moore said it is unclear if this were true.<ref>{{cite news|first=Erin|last=Jensen|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/23/20880743/demi-moore-inside-out-reveals-rape-marriage-failure-substance-abuse-ashton-kutcher|title=Demi Moore memoir details teen rape, substance abuse, why Ashton Kutcher marriage failed|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date=September 23, 2019|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=September 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924080607/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/23/20880743/demi-moore-inside-out-reveals-rape-marriage-failure-substance-abuse-ashton-kutcher|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/24/demi-moore-reveals-she-was-raped-aged-15-in-new-memoir|title=Demi Moore reveals she was raped age 15|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London, England|date=September 24, 2019|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=September 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924125203/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/24/demi-moore-reveals-she-was-raped-aged-15-in-new-memoir|url-status=live}}</ref>
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