{"id":187939,"date":"2021-02-24T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mara-wilson-says-she-britney-spears-learned-the-same-lesson-as-sexualized-child-stars\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T20:34:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:34:25","slug":"mara-wilson-says-she-britney-spears-learned-the-same-lesson-as-sexualized-child-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mara-wilson-says-she-britney-spears-learned-the-same-lesson-as-sexualized-child-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mara Wilson Says She & Britney Spears ‘Learned The Same Lesson’ As ‘Sexualized’ Child Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mara Wilson Says She & Britney Spears ‘Learned The Same Lesson’ As ‘Sexualized’ Child Stars
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\nWow\u2026 This just goes to show how much things still need to change.<\/p>\n

In a New York Times<\/em> opinion piece<\/a>\u00a0published Tuesday, Mara Wilson<\/strong>, a former child actor best known for her roles in Matilda<\/em> and Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em>, opened up about her experience growing up in the public eye. And amid all the talk surrounding the outlet\u2019s docuseries<\/a>, Framing Britney Spears<\/strong><\/em>, it sounds like she can really relate to the tumultuous and scrutinized past of said superstar!<\/p>\n

Simply put, the 33-year-old, who has never shied away from calling out the media<\/a> for its harmful ways, wrote in The Lies Hollywood Tells About Little Girls<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cBritney Spears and I learned the same lesson growing up: When you\u2019re young and famous, there is no such thing as control.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related: Britney Spears\u2019 Cousin & Former Assistant Says Jamie Threatened Her LIFE \u2014 Scary Details HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Detailing her 13th birthday spent in a hotel room doing press for Thomas and the Magic Railroad<\/em> all day, the actress explained how her \u201cinevitable downfall\u201d began. Having spent her life highly critical of every move she made so she would not \u201cget a reputation as a complainer\u201d (such as declining a soda from her press coordinators that day), Mara decided to be honest to one journalist. A decision that turned into a front page article all about how the teen was a \u201cspoiled brat.\u201d Wilson considered this \u201cThe Narrative,\u201d something all child stars face. She confessed:<\/p>\n

\u201c[The article] described the dark paths child stars like me often went down. It embraced what I now refer to as \u2018The Narrative,\u2019 the idea that anyone who grew up in the public eye will meet some tragic end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The very \u201cend\u201d her parents had worked so hard for the creative to avoid. Gaining fame at the age of five, the Miracle on 34th Street<\/em> lead noted:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d been trained to seem, to\u00a0be<\/em>, as normal as possible \u2014 whatever it took to avoid my inevitable downfall. I shared a bedroom with my little sister. I went to public school. I was a Girl Scout. When someone called me a \u2018star\u2019 I was to insist that I was an\u00a0actor,\u00a0that the only stars were in the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, how does her story connect with the Toxic<\/em> singer\u2019s? Looking back on the hate-filled article, Mara noticed the writer had asked her about Spears, to which the teen stated she \u201chated\u201d the mega famous pop star who had already been pegged as a \u201cBad Girl.\u201d As for why she claimed to dislike the performer, the director now thinks:<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of it was pure jealousy, that she was beautiful and cool in a way I\u2019d never be. I think mostly, I had already absorbed the version of The Narrative surrounding her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After watching countless females be celebrated just for society to \u201cdestroy them,\u201d the California native decided she would never flaunt her sexuality \u201cas a right of passage\u201d like so many celebs had begun to do by \u201capp<\/a>earing on covers of lad mags or in provocative music videos.\u201d Yet even those intentional efforts to avoid being \u201csexualized\u201d failed. The Big Hero 6: The Series<\/em> vocalist explained:<\/p>\n

\u201cI never appeared in anything more revealing than a knee-length sundress. This was all intentional: My parents thought I would be safer that way. But it didn\u2019t work. People had been asking me, \u2018Do you have a boyfriend?\u2019 in interviews since I was 6. Reporters asked me who I thought the sexiest actor was and about Hugh Grant<\/strong>\u2019s arrest for soliciting a prostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She also received fan mail from grown men! SO not okay!!<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was cute when 10-year-olds sent me letters saying they were in love with me. It was not when 50-year-old men did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like Britney, Mara became a sensation, her image a product of its own. She added:<\/p>\n

\u201cMany moments of Ms. Spears\u2019s life were familiar to me. We both had dolls made of us, had close friends and boyfriends sharing our secrets and had grown men commenting on our bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related: Stranger Things\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Natalia Dyer Calls Out Media For \u2018Oversexualizing\u2019 Her Younger Co-Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

But what helped Wilson \u201cend up ok\u201d??<\/p>\n

\u201cMy life was easier not only because I was never tabloid-level famous, but because unlike Ms. Spears, I always had my family\u2019s support. I knew that I had money put away for me, and it was mine. If I needed to escape the public eye, I vanished \u2014 safe at home or school.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s also important to recognize that while the actress is thankful for the important conversations and work that has been made following the #MeToo Movement, none of her harassment occurred on a film set, but rather \u201ccame at the hands of media and the public.\u201d So clearly, there is a lot that needs to be fixed to make sure future young celebrities never have to face the same criticism, sexualization, and ridicule that Mara and others have experienced.<\/p>\n

Like the TV writer so eloquently put, the negative consequences of fame are often more a reflection of adults than the child star themselves. Thoughts, Perezcious readers?<\/p>\n

[Image via Mara Wilson\/Britney Spears\/<\/a>Instagram<\/a> & Movieclips Classic Trailers\/<\/a>YouTube<\/a>]\n<\/div>\n