Nick Jonas - who himself battles diabetes - has teamed up with pharmaceutical giant Bayer to promote the firm's blood-sugar meter.
The digital CONTOUR device, which plugs into a computer via a USB port, helps sufferers track their glucose levels over the course of a day.
Nick, 17, appears in a new TV ad airing in the US now, in which he urges those with diabetes to use it, as he plays his guitar.
He has previously told how he was rushed to hospital before doctors diagnosed him with the illness at the age of 13.
"I lost 15 pounds in two weeks," he told a US television show. "I weighed 115 pounds - I went down to 100."
Doctors performed tests on Nick and concluded that he had Type 1 diabetes.
"It was the scariest thing ever," his brother Joe said. "I remember we went swimming one day and I could see his back and bones."
Nick now has to test his own blood sugar and wears a pump on his back, which delivers insulin into his bloodstream.
The teenager has even written a song, A Little Bit Longer, about his experience of diabetes.
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