7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective)

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7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective)

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Here's an interesting viewpoint from the perspective of an ex-childhood star...
Mara Wilson wrote:When I was a kid, I acted in a few movies.

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It was generally a good experience, but every day I'm glad I wasn't Olsen twins famous. Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

But why does this happen?
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One of the things I found was a foot fetish website dedicated to child actresses.
OMG :eyecrazy
it's still legal in several places to Photoshop a child's head onto a nude adult body.
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Reminds me of a blog kept by another former child star who just happens to have costarred with Mara in Mrs. Doubtfire, and who just happened to have written recently about reconnecting with her after being apart for 15 years.

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Aww. Lisa Jakub. :inlove
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Brooke Shields has said that being a sex object led her to feel like she wasn't in control of her own body, and is one of the reasons she didn't have sex until she was 22.
I wasn't a child actress, but I'm still a 40-year-old male virgin.
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Awww, you don't look a day over 35. :D
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omg wrote:
Brooke Shields has said that being a sex object led her to feel like she wasn't in control of her own body, and is one of the reasons she didn't have sex until she was 22.
I wasn't a child actress, but I'm still a 40-year-old male virgin.
I was too, omg.. But then, out of the blue, I met a lady [who would become my fiance] and all that changed.. :thumbsup

Just letting you know that [unless you decide to choose chastity or monk-dom] there's still hope! Keep your, um, CHIN up! ;)

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