I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
The gratifying part of my journey is no one calls me a star child or a superstar's wife anymore. I think I have grown beyond that and have my own identity.
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.
How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.
Being an ex-child star is not a given.
I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.