She says many of her Nickelodeon clients, inspired by a few "cool kid" stars, attend the same church every week, and the trend has been going on for decades. Iconic child actors like Tia and Tamera Mowry who were once represented by Mains , Kim Fields , and Dakota Fanning have attributed their success to their faith, calling it a grounding force in their lives. A surprising number of former child stars have taken their faith a step further and gone on to become Evangelical preachers, ministering salvation to the fans that once watched them on TV.
Kirk Cameron, the former Growing Pains actor and teen heartthrob was Born Again midway through his career as Mike Seaver, and has become one of the biggest and most controversial Evangelists in America. Cameron has advocated that bananas are proof of intelligent design, called homosexuality "unnatural" and "destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization," and advised women that "wives are to honor and respect and follow their husband's lead.
More disconcerting is the conversion of Angus Jones, former star of the wildly popular Two and a Half Men. The teen star made national headlines when he appeared in a video with an Evangelical minister denouncing the show and begging viewers not to watch.
I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it and filling your head with filth. Many viewed his conversion and extreme views as a natural response to the debauchery shown by the show's star, Charlie Sheen, but others worried that the young man was being controlled by Christopher Hudson , the extremist Seventh Day Adventist Minister who accompanies him in the famous video.
Breslin, who met and hung out with Jones when they were both kids on set, says he wants to believe his conversion is authentic, but adds that he wouldn't be shocked if he did find out Jones' new Evangelical mentor was taking advantage. While religion can help or hurt a young actor in their attempts to leave Hollywood, Breslin, Mains, and Jakub are all in agreement that the most important factor in child performer's transition into a successful adulthood is the presence of grounding and supportive adults in their lives.
None of my friends were actors. We just played sports and did stupid kid shit. Mains says that she tries to remain a steadying force in her young clients' lives, providing a counterbalance to many of the more predatory figures in Hollywood. Breslin and Jakub also agree that while the journey into adulthood can be difficult for anyone, the threats that face young stars are often overblown.
The phenomenon might have less to do with the pressures created by Hollywood, and more to do with the spotlight that focuses on the actions of young stars as they come of age. They start to look more glamorous and drive fancier cars than their kids," says former child actress Melissa Joan Hart, And yet just as often, parents do their best to keep their kids somewhat balanced and level-headed.
My parents let me explore that. They weren't interested in it themselves. They were trying to protect me. It became my mom's job to take me on auditions. She didn't want to be rich and famous. When Sister, Sister ended its run, Mowry's parents pushed her and her twin to go to college.
Mostly, she says, her parents told her she and her sister could quit any time, when it stopped being fun and started to become a burden. Others weren't so lucky. This family clearly didn't need money. There was one other girl and she did not want to do it. You could tell her mom was pushing her to do it. The kids will tell you, 'I don't want to do this. And that's the crux of the issue, say experts.
Kids learn how to navigate their environment, and deal with challenges, by being around their peers and learning how to solve problems through play. That amount of public scrutiny makes it hard on kids to do that. They can't mess up. So they have to adopt a very self-assured, precocious identity very quickly," says New Jersey-based clinical psychologist Eileen Kennedy-Moore.
The basic needs of childhood have nothing to do with working or the entertainment industry. A young child doesn't even understand what the entertainment industry is. Or what it means to be a star. Famous people can suck the air out of a room. Everyone stares at them, looks at them for social cues and monitors their every move. And they do not want you ever to grow up.
How do you react? The way any sullen teenager does: You get resentful, and as soon as you have the freedom, you act out. And, of course, by now these former child stars have a lot of money to spend on acting out. Which is why they wind up getting into not just regular trouble, but expensive trouble. So they attempt again to win back their fans, inevitably fail because the task is impossible and rebel again. However, after the series wrapped, she began to flounder and turned to drugs.
She had very few acting jobs, and spent her residuals on meth. After getting clean, the opportunity arose for Sweetin to get back on TV with the revival series, Fuller House, on Netflix. Child actor turned musician, Leif Garrett, was born in Hollywood, and began his entertainment career early. He was cast as Mike Pusser in the original Walking Tall trilogy. Garrett quickly became known as a teen idol, and began a music career.
Like several stars on this list, Garrett turned to drugs early, and was found at fault for a car accident that rendered his friend a paraplegic. In , Garrett declared bankruptcy. He was also arrested for drug possession a number of times over the years. Jaimee Foxworth on The Dr. Oz Show Sony Pictures Television. Even a brief period on TV can cause a former child performer to fumble later in life.
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