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Child Stars: Where Are They Now?
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Home Improvement
Before Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, and the Jonas Brothers, there were three little initials: J.T.T. Girls plastered photos of him all over their lockers and bedroom walls. Tiger Beat should have renamed itself J.T.T. Beat for his countless cover stories. But where is he now?
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Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Jonathan Taylor Thomas Now
Jonathan Taylor Thomas has pretty much disappeared from the public eye, but he has enrolled in Columbia University as Jonathan Taylor Weiss, under his mother’s maiden name. College girls, let the stalking begin.
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Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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A.J. Langer, My So-Called Life
Who could forget crazy Rayanne Graff, the life and soul of the teen-angsty drama My So-Called Life?
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Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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A.J. Langer Now
While MSCL star Claire Danes went on to play a princess onscreen, Langer is now countess of Devon—she married Charlie Courtenay, the earl of Devon, in 2004. “We met in a bar in Vegas,” Langer said. “He didn’t know I was an actress. I didn’t know he had a castle.”
<i>Photo Source: People</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Anthony Michael Hall, The Breakfast Club
Forever the King of the Dipshits, Anthony Michael Hall played some of the most memorable nerds on film: Farmer Ted in Sixteen Candles, Brian “The Brain” Johnson in The Breakfast Club, and Gary Wallace in Weird Science.
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Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Anthony Michael Hall Now
Turns out über-nerd Hall is kind of a badass—he starred in the gritty sci-fi TV series The Dead Zone and had a prominent role in the 2008 movie The Dark Knight.
<i>Photo Source: Today</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Eve Plumb, The Brady Bunch
“Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!” Middle sister Jan always lived in her beautiful big sister’s shadow.
Photo Source: People
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Eve Plumb Now
Everyone’s favorite middle sibling is now a professional oil painter. Plumb, fifty-one, shows her works in galleries nationwide.
<i>Photo Source: Eve Plumb</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense
I see dead people!” Osment’s famous line has been parodied countless times since The Sixth Sense was released in 1999, but the precocious child actor had a bright future.
<i>Photo Source: Rotten Tomatoes</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Haley Joel Osment Now
After a DUI conviction in 2006, Osment lay low until he resurfaced on Broadway in David Mamet’s American Buffalo. The 2008 play opened to mixed reviews; the unfortunate Osment received near-unanimous censure.
<i>Photo Source: USA Today</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Jonathan Lipnicki, Jerry Maguire
Who else could charm Tom Cruise with the line, “Did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?”
<i>Photo Source: Tim Bourke</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Jonathan Lipnicki Now
Lipnicki’s film work has been sporadic since 2005. His official website’s tagline is: “Are Killers Born or Made?” Gee, kid, we hope that’s a reference to an upcoming role …
<i>Photo Source: Celebrity Wonder</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Kirk Cameron, Growing Pains
One of Hollywood’s most outspoken evangelicals, Cameron often clashed with Growing Pains producers about so-called “adult” themes on the show. Eventually, Cameron’s demands became so outlandish that three executive producers quit.
<i>Photo Source: Thought Zone</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Kirk Cameron Now
Cameron co-founded the Way of the Master, an evangelical ministry, and frequently debates with atheists and evolutionary theorists on his TV show.
<i>Photo Source:Alpha Omega News</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Keisha Knight Pulliam, The Cosby Show
As Rudy, the cutest of the Huxtable kids, Knight Pulliam became the youngest Emmy Award nominee in history.
<i>Photo Source: The Bounce</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Keisha Knight Pulliam Now
Rudy’s all grown-up now! After stints on celebrity versions of Fear Factor and The Weakest Link, Knight Pulliam has become part of Tyler Perry’s entourage, playing roles in Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and Madea Goes to Jail.
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Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Mayim Bialik, Blossom
No one could make oversize floppy hats look as good as Blossom did. The sweet teen captured hearts as she dealt with “very special episodes”: her parents’ divorce, bullies, and her first kiss.
<i>Photo Source: The A.V. Club</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Mayim Bialik Now
Bialik returned to acting after receiving a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA in 2007. She has guest-starred on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Fat Actress.
<i>Photo Source: Babble</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Peter Billingsley, A Christmas Story
Poor Ralphie. All he wanted for Christmas was a genuine Red Ryder BB gun. Instead, everyone from his mother to his teacher to Santa Claus told him, “You’ll shoot your eye out!”
<i>Photo Source: The Cut</i>
Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they’re all grown up? While some graduate from college and others go to rehab, some become stay-at-home moms and others go back into show biz.
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Peter Billingsley Now
After becoming close friends with comedy stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, Billingsley has executive-produced several of their films and even directed the 2009 comedy Couples Retreat, starring Vaughn and Favreau.
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First published October 2009
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