Last month, at the American Film Academy dinner, Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber exposed the same frame photo of the century, and the combination of Justin Bieber's wife and ex-girlfriend made everyone eat a big melon.
Immediately afterwards, Selena's personal documentary was released, but unexpectedly, it involved more turmoil.
A lifelong friendship, just plastic sister flowers?
In My Mind & Me, a documentary released last week, Selena tells the camera about her journey from being a high-profile star to falling to rock bottom physically and mentally.
However, some viewers found that in this documentary about her body and mind, Selena did not mention her friend Francia Raisa, who donated her kidney back then.
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Then, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Selena said that she had never been part of the cool celebrity sister groups, and that "my only true friend in the industry was Taylor Swift."
"Rolling Stone" posted this sentence highlighted, and other entertainment media also reprinted Selena and Taylor's faces.
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Although Francia is not a famous actor, she has also appeared in many dramas in the entertainment industry. What's more, she and Selena have known each other since childhood, and they are old friends for more than ten years in the eyes of everyone, not to mention how many fans were touched by the incident of "saving girlfriends by giving up their kidneys" a few years ago.
So under an Instagram that was forwarded by entertainment media, when Francia, who donated a kidney, commented on "Interesting", things began to get weird. The post has now been deleted, and some believe that the screenshot of the reply is fake.
However, Francia has indeed closed Selena in her friends list, and fans have begun to argue about when to take it off.
Adding fuel to the fire, Selena publicly replied after the public opinion fermented, "I'm sorry, I didn't mention everyone I know." This sentence instantly ignited netizens at home and abroad, and some people felt that Selena was ungrateful, and the person who donated a kidney to save her life became a "person she knows" in a blink of an eye.
You know, when Francia donated a kidney for Selena in the summer of 2017, Selena also expressed gratitude in a post: "I don't know what else to say to thank my beautiful friend Francia. She sacrificed herself to donate a kidney to me, which is the best gift. I feel very happy and I love you sister. ”
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The other side of sweetheart's top stream
Without this series of dramatic stories later, Selena's documentary itself would have touched many people.
In this documentary, Selena very honestly dissects herself, from appearance, to performance, to her social status.
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The documentary spends a great deal of time showing how Selena has struggled with physical and mental problems over the past six years. After a nervous breakdown, she was sent to a treatment facility, diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder (bipolar disorder), had to take a lot of medication, and was out of shape.
She describes how she feels when she struggles with mental problems: "I don't want to talk to anyone, I would lie in bed for weeks, and walking downstairs would make me breathless. ”
Images of Selena's fierce argument with friends were also recorded. In the camera, she makes no secret of her impatience, anxiety, and even paranoia. In 2020, her old lupus flare-up, and her painful expression was infinitely magnified under the lens.
Even if she didn't have a split with Justin Bieber, Selena herself has long been a traffic topic maker.
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debuted at the age of 6, signed with Disney at the age of 12, formed his own band at the age of 17, and became a singer and star all over the world. In 2020, she founded her own beauty brand Rare Beauty, and also tried to participate in dramas, cross-border experience as an actor and producer.
Today, Selena has more than 300 million followers on Instagram and is worth $85 million. This year she was nominated for a Grammy for her first all-Spanish album and was nominated for an Emmy for her role in the series Only Murders in the Building.
Of course, in the documentary, Selena also mentioned her feelings as a "Disney child star". She felt that after her popularity, she was ignored and became a "product" that people could trade.
Compared to the waves she has made on the Internet in the past two days, this documentary does not have much music or performance, but shows many personal parts of Selena, more like documenting how an ordinary girl is reborn under the double torture of body and mind.
"Bad mental state", what happened to Disney child stars
Even if she is popular like Selena, she still can't shake off the baggage brought to her by the label of "Disney child star".
From 1955 to 1996, Disney's child star talent show "Mickey Mouse Club" and series Kids Incorporated, "Dancing Chicago" and "Hannah Montana" became popular with generations of child stars. Most of the most popular Disney child stars in Hollywood today appear in Disney's shows or episodes after 1984.
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For example, Ryan Gosling, Keri Russell, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera all starred in Club Mickey Mouse around 1993.
Miley Cyrus, Zendaya, Bella Thorne, Demi Lovato and others became popular with Disney's homemade drama after "Club Mickey Mouse" was discontinued.
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"Disney child star", a label that cannot be shaken off in a lifetime, has obviously become a double-edged sword. The public always expects these child stars to maintain the image of a "perfect role model" forever. Every day, countless child stars struggle between satisfying the public's stereotypes of them or striving to express their most authentic selves.
Alyson Stoner, one of the child stars who emerged from Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club" in 1993, said she was forced to learn hundreds of strategies for coping with audition contingencies at a children's acting school as a child to ensure that she auditioned attentively in any situation.
Because she was stereotyped as a "tomboy" in early films, she still wore jeans and a baseball cap on most occasions until she was 27 years old. The characters who find her are all so similar, either "lewd blonde girl" or "manic drug addict girl".
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But compared to other Disney child stars, she has grown up unscathed. The struggle to "grow up" is even more pronounced in Disney female stars.
Sometimes people's narrow metaphors of "women" are only polarized good or bad girls, pure or. So, from Britney Spears, who is under the mental control of her original family, to Miley, who has transformed from a sweet princess to a rebellious girl, to Demi Lovato, who suffers from drug addiction and anorexia, and so on.
No matter what their professional achievements may be, they will have problems with drug abuse, alcohol addiction, and mental illness. And people's final evaluation of these actresses is only "bad mental state".
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In addition, there are some issues that should not be ignored. In the 2021 documentary "Dances with the Devil", Demi Lovato tells about her drug and alcohol abuse to sexual assault and mental health problems. She felt that she had been youngened for a long time, and no one respected her personal wishes.
She also claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a leading actor while working for Disney in the 2000s, but the scandal was "covered up by people with power." Parents of child stars have also been warned by Hollywood "professionals" not to meddle in their children's careers, otherwise it will ruin them.
Now, lest something like that happen again, Disney child stars like Stoner are committed to overthrowing the entertainment industry's long-standing "abuse system," which allows child stars to endure adult violence, abuse and neglect long ago.
She believes that if minors participate in the filming of film and television dramas, the crew must be equipped with a third-party psychological expert to conduct professional training for guardians.
Although in the child star making field full of fame and fortune, this may still be just a drop in the bucket. But only the older generation of child stars have the freedom to walk, and the new generation of child stars that are still being created have the possibility of running.
Resources:
The Independent: The mice that roared: How Disney’s former child stars are fighting to change the entertainment industry
The Glamour: Demi Lovato Wants to Speak to Former Disney Channel and Child Stars for a New Project
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