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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.
There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.
As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.
The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.