15 child stars who were insulted by interviewers, the press, and fans
Recently, old clips by Justin Bieber resurfaced features a number of instances where the pop star was asked incredibly inappropriate questions during her teenage years. He repeatedly expressed his discomfort and said he felt “offended.”
It started a larger conversation where people are reflecting and rethinking the times when child and teen stars have been mistreated by the industry, interviewers, press and even fans. Here are some examples:
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Britney Spears was 17 years old when Ivo Niehe asked her in a television interview if she had breast implants.
2.
Marcus Scribner was 18 when he starred The Wendy Williams Show and asked her if she was a virgin.
3.
A NSFW subreddit claimed that opens on Millie Bobby Brown’s 18th birthday and has counted down the days.
The group had over 6,000 members and one Reddit user he explained that the subreddit was to “post sexual pictures of him on his 18th birthday. It’s a sub page dedicated solely to sexual images of Millie, who is currently a minor, until next week, but they already have a sub with thousands of subscribers.”
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There was one more countdown the media for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s 18th birthday because they would be “legal adults”.
That Reddit thread on the Millie Bobby Brown Reddit group, someone reminded me that for Mary-Kate and Ashley, “the radio talk show hosts had countdowns and there were TV spots.”
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were 17 years old when Oprah asked them their size during a conversation about their rumored eating disorders.
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Brooke Shields was 12 years old when she played a child sex worker Doll, which included a nude scene of him. His mother, who was his manager at the time, got a lot of buzz for taking on the role.
When Brooke went to the Cannes Film Festival, the film caused commotion and someone trying to cut Brooke’s hair with scissors had to be restrained. Expressing how traumatic it was, she said: “I’ve never seen such frenzy. It was so obscene, but absurd. I couldn’t identify with him… the amount of attention was really scary.”
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Lindsay Lohan was 17 years old when she hosted SNL and they did a whole lot Harry Potter the characters staring at her breasts are in the center of the sketch.
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Britney Spears was 19 when she hosted SNL in 2000, and many of her sketches included sex jokes about her.
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Finn Wolfhard shared this with an enthusiastic group of adults when he was 13 years old Stranger Things fans followed him back to his apartment when he was on set That.
“Stranger Things I just came out and I was alone. As I went faster, they went faster,” he recalled. “I got a little nervous by the time I got to the door. All of a sudden they were like, “Hey dude, can we take a selfie?”
“And I said, ‘No, you can’t take a selfie! How about you don’t follow the kids?”
Ariel claimed her mother “the smallest miniskirts, sailor suits, plunging necklines, the shortest dresses you’ve ever seen. People thought I was 24 when I was 12. If there was a nude scene at my age, my mother would say yes a thousand percent.
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Shirley Temple’s mother, Gertrude, put her daughter in the industry when she was a toddler. His first role was in this War dolls at 3 years old. It was a sexually suggestive short film where children pretend to be adults, and on her resume Shirley described as “cynical exploitation of our childish innocence”.
He is also in his memoirs quoted During his childhood career, he was sexually harassed by studio executives on several occasions.
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Alyson Stoner wrote in an essay in which he was forced to audition for scenes depicting sexual violence at the age of 6, and it took an emotional toll on him.
HE he added that many companies made her work more hours than is legal for a minor, that the conditions set were inadequate and dangerous, and that she experienced sexual harassment.
HE he told me a meet and greet in Spain where 100,000 people showed up and chased them through the mall, and another incident in South America where a hotel staff sneaked her child into her room.
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Jennette McCurdy writes in her memoir that when she was a child star on Nickelodeon, someone she refers to as “The Creator” encouraged her to drink alcohol at dinner.
She refused, and he yelled at the children iCarly they were too healthy and that the Winner cast often drank. Jennette says she took a drink to please him and put his coat on, then massaged his shoulders, which made him uncomfortable.
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And Bhad Bhabie – aka Danielle Bregoli – expressed she was uncomfortable with how such a large, older audience subscribed to Onlyfans when she launched her account a few days after her 18th birthday.
HE claimed earned more than $1 million in its first night on the platform and said it earned $52 million in the first year of its account launch. Asked if he believed those who subscribed immediately should go to jail, he agreed.
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/child-stars-boundaries-crossed
