6 Former Child Stars Who Got Real About The Toxic Ways Their Early Careers Still Impact Their Lives - BuzzFeed

The experience of being a child star is clearly not what I thought it was.

In an op-ed for People, Camp Rock actor Alyson Stoner detailed her "harrowing" experience as a child star, which she says included sexual harassment, child labor violations, and severe eating disorders, among other things!

Keke Palmer told The Guardian that she thinks "performing, in general, is exploitative" because when you're a kid, "you don’t even know your limits yourself." She also suggested that she has "trauma" from her own experiences as a child star following her breakout role in 2006's Akeelah and the Bee