Hollywood has spent decades churning out the same script for child stars. Take the sweet, clean-cut kid America loves and push them into sexualized adult roles the moment they turn 18. Ratings go up, magazine covers sell, executives celebrate. It is an industry that profits from moral decay and then pretends it has nothing to do with it.
Candace Cameron Bure saw the machine up close. She entered millions of homes as D.J. Tanner on Full House at just 10 years old. By the time the show ended in 1995, she was already a household name. And as soon as she stepped off that set, Hollywood expected her to follow its well-worn path straight into provocation and shock value.
Bure watched her peers get ushered into more “grown-up” roles with the same formula. Former teen stars from shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Saved by the Bell, and Who’s the Boss? were suddenly appearing in steamier photoshoots and pushing boundaries to prove they were “adults.” She remembers thinking exactly what Hollywood wanted her to think. As she put it, “Oh, well, they’re posing in that magazine or taking sexier pictures — maybe it’s not Playboy, it’s kind of sexier.”¹ The pressure to conform was unmistakable.
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