- Was the youngest person to write, produce, and perform a number one hit, "Foolish Beat". She was 17.
- Posed nude in an eight-page pictorial for the March 2005 issue of Playboy magazine. (February 2005)
- Her song, "Foolish Beat", was her first single to hit the #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
- Signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records when she was 16 years old.
- Auctioned her first car, a 1957 Ford Fairlane Skyliner, for charity.
- Wrote her first song, "Make Sure You Know Your Classroom", when she was five years old.
- Co-owner of "Culture Club", a four-story 1980s/1990s-themed NYC club.
- Graduated with honors from Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York.
- She is known to play the ukulele and the piano.
- Is the subject of the Pixies song "Make Believe", which resulted from an obsession of Pixies drummer David Lovering. It was written by Frank Black and sung by Lovering.
- Won the "ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award" in 1989, an award she shared with Bruce Springsteen.
- A Finnish rap-band, Raptori, composed a song about her. Its name is "Debi Gibson"
- Appears in the music video for Katy Perry's single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", alongside Rebecca Black, Darren Criss, Corey Feldman, Kenny G, Kevin McHale, Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson and Zac Hanson.
- Childhood friend of Ricki Lake.
- Posed for the March 2005 issue of Playboy, to coincide with the release of her single, "Naked".
- Is of Italian/Sicilian descent on her mother's side.
- As a kid, she grew up listening to hard rock music.
- Wrote "Wake Up To Love," while in social studies class.
- Launched "Camp Electric Youth" (named after her second album), an organization to acquaint girls to show biz [2008].
- Has been typecast as not one but two fictional pop stars on series television: "Gabrielle" on Street Justice (1991); and "Christi Rose" on Step by Step (1991). In 2005, years after both shows were cancelled, she was asked for both "Christi's" and "Gabrielle's" autographs (plus her own) at the famous Tower Records store on Sunset Boulevard in West Los Angeles. She cheerfully obliged.
- Most of her classmates (who were in the audience) had appeared in her music video: "Foolish Beat.".
- Was born in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn and lived there until her family moved to Long Island.
- Playing the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret on Broadway (February 2003)
- Has written an early-1990s autobiography, "Between the Lines," the title of which is taken from the last song on her first album. Unfortunately, the book does not exist in audio format.
- Daughter of Diane Gibson.
- Until 2011, when both she and Tiffany had starred in Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011), they were not really friends, despite keeping each other in contact for years.
- Her favorite sitcom was Three's Company (1976).
- Friend of Barry Williams.
- Born eight days after River Phoenix, in the same month of the same year.
- Was in a relationship with actor Chris Bruno for two years in the mid 90s.
- Working on new music with Grammy Award-winning producer Neal Pogue. (January 2007)
- Appeared as herself on CBS's 1988 Saturday-morning series "Flip!".
- Since she was 16, she began to have panic attacks.
- She sang at The Metropolitan Opera in La Boheme with Placido Domingo, when she was 11. She snuck into his dressing room and he took a picture with her.
- Has been diagnosed with Lyme disease. [2013].
- Had auditioned for Carol Seaver on Growing Pains (1985).
- Didn't have her 1st cup of coffee until she was in her late twenties.
- When she was only 10, she submitted a card house that ran all around her family's house to That's Incredible! (1980).
- Frequently talks about her rivalry and friendship of Tiffany in several interviews.
- When she was growing up, she was an avid Billy Joel fan, and Joel was the reason Gibson had played a couple of his tunes.
- Singing ran in her family.
- Her uncle through marriage is Vic Damone.
- She got all the way up to "Junior Lifeguard" level in swimming classes.
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