Directions: Fill in the blanks in the first eight paragraphs of the article "For Demi Lovato, No Airbrushing Required" by Nicole LaPorte. LOS ANGELES - On a recent sunny afternoon, Demi Lovato emerged from a black tractor-size SUV and made her way onto a stage set up at the Grove, an upscale outdoor mall here, where she was to perform at the opening of a new Topshop. As screaming Lovatics (as Ms. Lovato's fans ______ themselves) flashed iPhones and waved Magic Marker signs at the pop star, she looked a little sheepish. This was understandable: her right foot was _____ in a black silver-studded cast that resembled a giant ski boot. But as Ms. Lovato hobbled over to the microphone, dressed in a biker jacket and tight black pants, she overcame the _____, her dark-painted lips breaking into a dazzling smile. "I'm feeling great," she yelled to the crowd, _____ kicking her injured foot into the air before launching into her chart-topping song "Give Your Heart a Break." I'm ready to rock! _____ unairbrushed moments has become a defining characteristic of Ms. Lovato, 20, one that has helped propel her back into the spotlight _____ a sudden fall from grace (in late 2010, she entered rehab for issues related to an eating disorder and cutting) that brought her career, which _____ on the Disney Channel, to a halt. _____ than adhere to the Hollywood playbook of dismissing or softening the facts, Ms. Lovato has _____ aired her troubles, tweeting to her 12 million fans about how she spent New Year's Eve in rehab, and talking to Katie Couric about feeling fat while _____ in diapers. Instead of tarnishing her image, these candid revelations seem to have _____ her. She is in _____ to return as a judge for the next season of the Fox reality singing show "The X Factor." She _____ arguably the breakout star of the show last winter. And her new song, "Heart Attack," was No. 1 on iTunes its first week of release. Some critics _____ her to the reality-show hall-of-famer Kelly Clarkson. Ms. Lovato's second act _____ in vivid contrast to that of Miley Cyrus, Ms. Lovato's direct predecessor in the Disney ranks. Ms. Cyrus's transition from teen queen to adult star was _____ by a steady drip, drip of scandalous revelations and a near-nude photo spread in Vanity Fair, which left many of her fans feeling alienated and confused; her record sales plummeted. Ms. Lovato's approach has proved far savvier, as was her _____ to use "X Factor," which last season averaged eight million viewers, as a comeback vehicle. Nowhere did she seem more "authentic," as her handlers like to say, than on that show, _____ as a lively, relatable judge who was far more at ease than her fellow panelist Britney Spears. While Ms. Spears offered terse, generic-sounding critiques to contestants and appeared to be in a state of quiet distress throughout the season (she is not returning), Ms. Lovato was a nurturing den mother, at one point walking on stage to _____ a crying singer, Jillian Jensen, who said she had been bullied at school. Ms. Lovato attributes her own struggles to being bullied when she was 12. decision after bolstered awkwardness console compare proclaim emerging openly stands still gamely was Embracing Rather negotiations encased marred accelerated