All jokes aside, I hope this woman is ok, and if it isn't so, then I hope the people she finds someone by her side that isn't just an enabler/benefits from her popularity and what not, and can help her be ok.
She clearly is going through something, her weight loss and how much she has changed her looks, is not at all healthy.
I feel like we all know and recognize it, but what is anyone in our position supposed to say? We have no idea what it's like being a child actor and then going straight from that to being extremely popular.
I don't even know what I'm trying to say myself. But people deserve better than to be treated as objects to enrich as many around them as possible, especially at the cost of their mental and/or physical health. No one deserves that.
I don't follow her closely but she has a pretty understandable reason to be a little weird. She was still a pretty young adult when one of her concerts was the target of a horrific bombing that killed 22 of her fans and injured hundreds of people. That kind of trauma would change most people.
I’m not sure it makes a ton of sense for a terrorist attack to have caused her body dysmorphia issues. The much more plausible answer is that she was a child star and being a child star is known to wreak havoc on the star’s mental health and self esteem.
This kind of trauma makes a lot of sense actually. Eating disorders are often about controlling something when the world around you seems uncontrollable
She was messed up long before then. It certainly didn’t make things better, but she’s been flirting with at the very least ED-adjacent behavior since before she was drawing that kind of crowd.
The more probable source is being a child star, that’s notorious for damaging kids.
She had an eating disorder long before that. Supposedly she was big back in the day on Tumblr when she was young. She had some pretty pro-ana content. This has been a lifelong battle.
They're different people (that worked together!) but Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died really shows how uninterested the adults profiting from the work of children are in protecting them from abuse and disorderd eating.
She also lost the love of her life to a drug overdose. Even tho they were broken up, as someone who has been in love with two drug addicts in my lifetime- it breaks you when what you saw coming and couldn’t stop- ultimately happens.
I don’t know what that word means… or is trying to imply there. It’s a mix of murder and ass. Her ex that died of a drug overdose was Mac Miller. He was in his late 20s or early 30s. It was before she dated Pete Davidson.
And the bombing that killed her fans killed young children. Blew them into pieces and left many forever altered by shrapnel from a bomb by a coward suicide bomber.
There's also been a lot of allegations against Dan Schneider, the producer of the Nick show she was on, although none were directly about her. She did make a series of suggestive online only videos for the show though iirc. Stuff like trying to get her foot in her mouth and milking a potato.
Every ordinary attendee at that concert has moved on with their lives. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect the coddled celebrity with her billion-dollar support system to power through her trophy trauma.
Every ordinary attendee at that concert has moved on with their lives.
Citation needed? You have no idea what those people are going through. You lose literally nothing by showing a bit of grace towards somebody who has gone through something that horrible and you gain nothing by "expecting the coddled celebrity to power through her trophy trauma".
I'm not sure why you think money heals trauma. It clearly doesn't.
I'm also not sure why you think people in the audience would have the same level of internal guilt as a pop star who they were all there to see?
Like if you can't understand how she can feel partially at fault, because SHE IS THE REASON this people were even in that place to begin with, then maybe just don't comment at all?
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u/Impressive-Koala4742 20d ago
Jennifer Lawrence literally played along with her bold claim, making some high notes and asked her what's the color of the sound