Dove Cameron Shares Her Firsts

You guys this is memories.

You're really digging up some stuff right now.

[upbeat pop music]

Hi Teen Vogue, I'm Dove Cameron,

and today I'm going to be sharing some of my firsts.

My first thought when I woke up this morning.

Probably like a non-verbal anger. [laughs]

'Cause I think I woke up to the,

whenever someone rings the bell outside my house.

We have like an old fashion phone that rings upstairs,

and it's so loud.

And it woke me up

'cause my boyfriend was getting picked up

to go to the airport

and I was so mad.

That's usually my first thought in the morning is just like

mad about being awake.

I feel like I turn that around by like making sure I have

two hours before I have to go anywhere,

which never happens.

But if I happen to be jet lagged,

and I wake up two hours early,

I have time to like have my coffee

and listen to music.

Music usually does it for me.

Journaling too, intentionally journaling.

The first app I check up when I wake up is,

I have two alarm apps [laughs]

'cause I always sleep through my alarms.

So that's the first one I check.

I'm 100% a night owl.

I like the morning though.

And so if I had my druthers,

I would only sleep for like three hours a night

and be able to function on it.

Because I like the night and the morning

and I resent that I have to choose.

My first CD was Elvis Greatest Hits.

♪ You're the devil in disguise ♪

♪ Yeah you are ♪

Like that was my, still my,

that's still my stuff, I love Elvis.

I remember the look of it.

It was gold with little white dots

writing out the word Elvis.

And I had a little portable walk man,

'cause I was still just a few years before this generation.

I had a little portable walk man

and that like, little foam ear headphone,

and I used to sit in the top bunk of my bed

and Elvis was my boyfriend.

The first vacation I ever went on,

that's hard because

vacation?

Probably somewhere in India.

I was always traveling.

I was traveling at like the very first time

that you can bring someone on a plane,

I was on a plane.

We went to like Kerala,

which is a beachy part of India.

Not like a big main city.

But I honestly don't know.

I feel like that's a question for my mom.

I think my first word was dad.

While my mom's at home like, What?

I mean I feel like that's pretty basic.

My sister's first word was flower

which I think is so much cooler.

But also, it's sweet, I love my dad.

My first best friend was a girl named Hailey Burns.

We met when we were in preschool

and we were like inseparable.

We like lived with each other.

It's like that time where you don't have memories,

but we must have just like

bonded so hard because in all of my childhood pictures,

I'm always holding hands with this little girl Hailey.

First time I was on a film set as a lead role

was this really early Disney Channel movie I did

called Cloud 9.

And I was 16 when we filmed it.

Which like, sounds like a normal age for Disney,

but it's really quite young to be a lead in anything.

It was bizarre.

I mean it felt comfortable,

like I've always felt like a very social person.

I made so many friends,

it was such a bonding, like summer campy experience.

So yeah, I didn't really think much of it.

I feel like I'm much more self conscious now

than I ever was in the beginning.

'Cause now I'm like, oh.

I don't know, something happens where you're like,

I have to like keep this up.

Versus like here I am!

Just doing my thing!

I should try to get back to that.

Other people who know this better

than me are gonna know this better,

but I think the first ever carpet I attended

was the Monster's University carpet?

That sounds wrong to me.

But maybe, could be. [laughs]

The first time I was recognized in public was

at The Grove. [laughs]

And it was the day after my first red carpet

and it was this man who had followed me there

and brought like a stack of glossies of pictures of me

that he found on the internet for me to sign.

To go from like, being, the day before,

like totally shy, unknown,

never imagining.

You just like your whole life,

you're just like normal, normal, normal normal,

and then like all of a sudden this guy came up to me

and was like, Can you sign these?

And I had like a weird reaction.

I had like a full blown panic attack.

I was like mm, I'm seen, I'm too known.

I don't want people knowing me.

Which is weird, but you don't know how it feels

until you get there.

And then I ran into a Nordstrom and I cried

and I came out and he was gone. [laughs]

The first time I ever heard my voice in something on TV was,

I did a song for Disney Channel

called Future Sounds Like Us for a Shake It Up episode

before I even started Liv and Maddie or Cloud 9.

Disney picks girls, right?

We all know this.

And then they like sprinkle them into everything

and then they become like,

they become like a channel entity.

And that was like one of the first things they wanna,

I think they wanted to see if I could sing.

And so they gave me a song on somebody else's show.

And then everything else happened.

That was my very first song I ever professionally recorded.

I remember Bella Thorne like reached out to me on Twitter

or something, was like, Love your song.

And I was like whoa, this is weird.

And I heard it back

and I remember thinking like is

that what I sound like recorded?

I sound so different.

The first time I was ever embarrassed was in my house.

Basically, my sister was doing this thing,

I don't even know what this project was called.

They would take kids from very different parts

of cities, like kids that would never mix together,

kids that were maybe like of different backgrounds

and of different walks of life.

And then they would put them together,

and they would show them how similar they really were.

It was this really cool project actually.

But I was so little when it was happening,

that's why I'm having a hard time describing it.

But there was this gorgeous guy.

He was like so tall and I remember like he was so like,

cheeky and he was one of the boys that came

from the city and we came from not the city.

They were doing this project together

and I had such a big crush on him when I was like five.

My dad told the whole room, he was like,

Sorry I have to go, my real name's Chloe,

and he was like, I have to go get Chloe,

she won't get off of Jack.

His name was Jack!

[gasps] His name was Jack!

Jack, I love you.

Wherever you are in the world,

I still love you and I'm sorry to my real life boyfriend

that I have now. [laughs]

But I was so mad at my dad, I'll never forget.

The first rap song I memorized all the words to

I feel like was

Eminiem's Shake That.

And I feel like I burned it on a CD

and I played it in the car.

My mom, I remember my mom specifically turning around

and being like, Do you know what this means?

And me being like, Yes, ugh, like so mad at her.

I can't say the lyrics here

because they're wildly inappropriate,

but like I still know them.

I just sang them all over again.

They stay in their man.

I have no idea where I was finding these things when I was

that age, this was right when,

this is wild, I feel old all of a sudden.

But this was right when iTunes was new,

and like the concept of iTunes, buying a song

and burning it to a disc was like

the newest, hottest technology.

I was like seven.

Why did I know all these rap songs?

I don't know, but I've been rapping since I was tiny.

I did have an AIM.

I had an AOL email

which I remember picking when I was seven.

It was randomremark777@AOL.com,

it's very much out of commission,

so you can feel free to email it.

I won't ever see it.

My first job,

my first job that I got paid for was

working in my parent's warehouse.

My parent's, they had a wholesale jewelry company,

so they would design the jewelry.

The designs would be shipped to suppliers

in India.

And so they'd make it,

and then ship samples back

and then we'd mass produce it.

And so I would work for like five dollars every two hours.

I'd like break down boxes

or like tape boxes with the big like tape gun.

Which thinking back, as a seven year old,

is probably pretty dangerous.

Shout out to my parents for giving me my money.

I needed it when I was seven.

My first job in entertainment,

I guess a job requires money, right?

Oh I played a background member of a local

film in a Halloween costume.

Like in like a onesie, and pigtails,

and like fake little freckles when I was like nine

or something

in a movie called A Relative Thing.

I never would have counted that as my first job ever,

but I think I got like $20

and it was like for my mom's friend.

So I don't know, I've never seen it.

But I guess that would be my first job.

My, oh!

My first audition ever was for a Foster Farms commercial

when I was seven.

I always wanted to be an actor,

and I got an agent when I was in Seattle

and she started to send me out for commercials

'cause she's like, This is part of it.

You have to go out for commercials.

And I still think I remember the lines.

It was like, you're like sitting on a front porch,

you can probably watch the commercial I bet.

I remember watching it and being like,

mm, that girl got it and I didn't.

Oh whatcha eating? Chicken.

Where'd you get it from?

The store.

Those were my two lines,

and I didn't get it, so.

You know it's funny, I feel like when you're little,

I've just kind of like,

like there are three cameras right now

and it probably was lighting like this.

Like I think I just felt, I've always felt friendly

towards a camera.

I never felt like it was trying to do something bad

or steal my soul.

Like I always was just kind of chill.

I was chill with people looking at me,

I was chill with adults.

I just didn't feel like it was any different.

It was like talking to people

and then there were cameras there.

The first time I was really starstruck

I think I,

actually I went to go see this one-woman play

in like a local play in this place called Chimacum.

Which is like a few hours away from my hometown.

There was a girl who did a one-woman play

called My Name Is Rachel Corrie.

And I think it was written by somebody local.

And she did the whole play, like three hours,

by herself and she was so pheromonal

that I had to go up to her afterward

and tell her how much I admired her when I was like

eight years old and I got so nervous that I just burst

into tears and tried to like hug her,

and she was like I don't know who's child this is.

I don't really get starstruck my like actual celebrities.

Because I feel like now, once you know

that it's just like not a thing,

you're like, Oh, I'm a celebrity,

that's kind of boring.

Like you're like oh, we're all just the same.

I mean I wouldn't call myself that.

But like, it's just once you're in Hollywood,

I feel like it kind of dissolves.

My first time on-stage was a Red Hot candy

in the Nutcracker when I was seven.

I think a lot happened when I was seven.

I wanted to do theater,

I had a lot of energy.

I was very emotional, I hated soccer

and ballet and whatever else my parents tired

to get me involved in.

I only wanted to do acting

and that was my very first thing.

And I wanted to be the Rat King more than anything

but they gave it to an older girl

and I was heartbroken.

I got to wear a big red wig

and I liked that.

I do found stage more nerve wracking now more

than film and TV.

'Cause there is something, I know this sounds so weird.

Because cameras are so invasive

and I will say if someone is like taking a photo of me

without my permission, I have this weird reaction,

like it's super invasive, 'cause I am still really shy.

But when I know I'm about to be on camera, I'm comfortable.

There's like a trust.

I know that we're capturing something

and that's what I'm here to do

and I feel relaxed, I don't know.

My first crush was named Dane Weezner.

And I have mentioned him so much.

I really hope he's seen any of them

and he's laughing.

But he was so dreamy.

I remember thinking he looked like the lead singer

of Green Day at the time.

'Cause you know how some boys have that permanent,

like their dark eyelashes make them look

like they have guyliner.

He had that, when we were like

really little, and he was so dreamy.

He was also my first kiss by the way

so it ended well.

I knew what I wanted and I got it.

My first celebrity crush, I, ooh.

My first like mm,

I saw something on the TV

and I liked it was Jack Skellington

in Nightmare Before Christmas.

We'll call that my first celebrity crush.

My first on-screen kiss was Luke Benward in Cloud 9.

And they actually had us practice it in the audition room

to see if we had chemistry.

They were like, Kiss!

And it was like a bunch of executives

and it was so scary.

That was like one of the first times I was like,

Wait, what, what do you mean?

Do you need a mint?

And I was like, Yeah, I'd love one.

And they we're like, We're joking, just kiss.

So I was like okay. [laughs]

And we did, we kissed, and they were like,

There ya have it, they're our leads.

It was so weird and it's like Twilight Zone thing.

But he's such a, I love Luke.

Luke's like my big brother forever.

But yeah, we had to kiss a lot.

It was like one of my ever, first kisses ever.

I think the first person I followed on Instagram

must have been my best friend Veronica.

'Cause she was the one who made me get Instagram

in high school, she's like,

This is gonna be the new thing.

It's like the new Facebook.

And I was like, no.

And she was like, Everybody has one

and you're totally gonna get left behind

if you don't get one.

And so we got one because we went on vacation to Hawaii

and she was like, You need a place to put all your photos

and I was like fair enough.

If I won a billion dollars,

the very first thing I would do with that money is give it

to a number of charities of my choice.

First of all, I would donate to the NRDC,

'cause I'm a big environmental junkie.

I would also donate to Planned Parenthood

'cause I'm a big Planned Parenthood advocate.

I mean I would attempt to give money

to the rainforest.

No joke.

First thing I would do if I had the day off,

actually, I think I'd probably wake up really early

and like be out in the world.

I like to be up before everybody's up.

And then I would probably go wherever the wind takes me.

That's what I did the other day in London.

My very first tattoo was a Capricorn sign when I was 14

on my hip.

Very much not legally.

But it always makes me laugh when people are like

you've changed so much, you used to be so cute,

and now you have all these tattoos.

'Cause I've always had tattoos,

like long before I was ever on TV.

You just never saw them.

My first big splurge, I bought a wig in New York

when I was 10 when my sister was looking for colleges.

I saved up my money to buy a wig in New York

as though that's the only place you can get wigs.

It was like, when we go to New York,

I'm saving up my money and I'm buying a wig.

It was big and curly, tiny little pin curls, and blonde.

Oh, I remember why. I wanted to be Claudia

from Interview with a Vampire.

That was my dream, was to be her.

I didn't look like that when I put it on, it was so ugly.

Oh god.

The first movie I ever saw

I would've been like pre-verbal status.

Probably something really inappropriate for my age.

My dad was always like, Films are art!

And children will be adults one day!

First role model was probably my dad or my mom.

Or my big sister.

I feel like everybody's family is their first role model.

My first pet, I was born and my family already had a cat

named Kazai.

But the first pet that we got was a cat named Maple.

She was a little short-haired Calico cat.

This is weird,

but I had a wooden ladder leading up to my room in my house

that my parents built.

There's like a little hole in my room

that you'd climb up.

And Maple, because it was a wooden ladder,

she could climb it.

'Cause you know how cats can climb trees?

She could put her claws into the wood

and she'd climb the ladder to come up and see me.

How weird is that?

Thank you guys so much for watching,

I hope you learned a little about me,

maybe more than you ever wanted to.

Don't forget to subscribe to Teen Vogue.

I love ya.