People Are Sharing The Young Female Stars Who Were Treated Like Garbage By Hollywood, The Press, And Fans

A portion back, I wrote astir immoderate famous young women who deserved an apology for the mistreatment they received from the amusement manufacture and the press. In the comments, radical shared adjacent much examples, and not 1 prevarication was told. Here are 16 of their apical responses:

Some responses are from this post and this post arsenic well.

During the Clinton Administration, Monica Lewinsky worked arsenic a White House intern. She had an matter with President Bill Clinton, which led to his impeachment. However, portion his governmental vocation continued, she was subjected to nationalist ridicule and sexist media sum and "was branded arsenic a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, 'That Woman.'" In her 2015 Ted Talk "The Price of Shame," she said, "When this happened to maine 17 years ago, determination was nary sanction for it. Now, we telephone it cyberbullying and online harassment... Public humiliation arsenic a humor athletics has to stop...just ideate walking a mile successful idiosyncratic else's headline."

2. "This is 1 that's amazingly not talked astir a lot, but erstwhile Rihanna was rumored to beryllium a 'homewrecker' and 'cheating with Jay-Z' erstwhile she was a teenager!"

In 2005, 17-year-old Rihanna was subjected to rumors that her euphony mentor Jay-Z was cheating connected Beyoncé with her. The speculation grew truthful aggravated that it reportedly caused the mates to concisely interruption up. Fans theorized Beyoncé's songs "Resentment" and "Ring the Alarm" were astir Rihanna until Beyoncé's father/manager released a connection clarifying that they weren't.

A decennary later, publicist Jonathan Hay admitted to making up the cheating rumor to beforehand Rihanna's archetypal single, "Pon De Replay." He told Inside Edition, "I was hopeless astatine the clip due to the fact that I wanted to person a deed record...[I was] young and stupid."

3. "There are truthful galore examples, but 1 I ever retrieve is Ariel Winter. She was perpetually sexualized and body-shamed, and past she was criticized erstwhile she had a bosom reduction. She couldn't triumph nary substance what she did."

During her clip arsenic a kid histrion connected Modern Family, Ariel Winter was subjected to a batch of nationalist disapproval and commentary astir her body. She told People, "It was conscionable everywhere. It was each header I work astir myself, like, grown radical penning articles astir maine saying however I looked unspeakable oregon large oregon similar a abdominous slut. I mean, I was 14. It wholly damaged my self-esteem... I understood what it was similar to beryllium hated. No substance what I was going through, I was a target. It made it precise hard to look astatine myself successful the reflector and go, 'I emotion this mentation of me.'"

At 17, Ariel decided to acquisition bosom simplification surgery. She told TIME, "Women are already over-sexualized, and I grew into my assemblage truthful young. I was 13, 14 years old, and I looked 19. Suddenly, radical didn't privation to speech astir my occupation — they conscionable wanted to speech astir my cleavage. I'd spell to awards shows, and the adjacent day, spot everyone connected the net telling maine I shouldn't look similar this and formal similar that. The speech became astir my looks alternatively of my endowment and enactment — everything that I didn't want. I adjacent started getting messages from older antheral fans, and let's conscionable accidental they were gross. Sometimes, it felt similar adjacent my enactment was defined by my body. I was offered a batch of older roles due to the fact that I wasn't capable to play 'younger' anymore..."

She continued, "People whitethorn find it hard to believe, but erstwhile I got my bosom simplification country past year, it wasn't due to the fact that of the mean comments online. It wasn't due to the fact that I didn't similar however I looked. Having truthful overmuch value connected my framework was affecting maine psychologically. I was uncomfortable and unhappy. I chose country due to the fact that of however I felt, not due to the fact that of what anyone other thought. Afterward, I automatically felt truthful overmuch happier and conscionable better physically. "

4. "The 'scandal' with Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez makes maine truthful aggravated each clip it's brought up, and it upsets maine adjacent much due to the fact that I cognize radical successful existent beingness who inactive judge that Tory is innocent. Free Tory, my ass! All helium had to bash was instrumentality work and apologize, but helium made Megan the villain. Men truly ain't crap sometimes."

In 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was shot successful the ft by Tory Lanez aft a party. In the years betwixt her study and the trial, she was perpetually victim-blamed and accused of lying by online trolls and chap musicians. Men similar Da Baby and 50 Cent openly mocked her, and Drake and 21 Savage called her a liar successful their opus "Circo Loco."

Megan continued to bravely share her story, but she struggled with the cruel comments others made online. She told Rolling Stone, "I get online, I spot comic crap each day. But past successful the premix of that, determination is besides 20 radical at-ing maine astatine 1 time, saying brainsick stuff. I'm like, 'My 15 minutes [online] is over. Get off.' ​​I spot radical saying, 'Damn, I would've changeable that bitch too.' In immoderate benignant of way, I became the villain. And I don't cognize if radical don't instrumentality it earnestly due to the fact that I look strong."

In December 2022, Tory was found guilty, and successful August 2023, helium was sentenced to 10 years successful prison. Megan told Elle, "I don't privation to telephone myself a victim. As I bespeak connected the past 3 years, I presumption myself arsenic a survivor, due to the fact that I person genuinely survived the unimaginable. Not lone did I past being changeable by idiosyncratic I trusted and considered a adjacent friend, but I overcame the nationalist humiliation of having my sanction and estimation dragged done the mud by that idiosyncratic for the full satellite to see."

"For years, my attacker laughed and joked astir my trauma. For years, my attacker peddled mendacious narratives astir what happened connected the nighttime of July 12, 2020. For years, my attacker tried to leverage societal media to instrumentality distant my power. Imagine however it feels to beryllium called a liar each day. Especially from a idiosyncratic who was erstwhile portion of your interior circle...It ne'er crossed my caput that radical wouldn't judge me. Still, I knew the information and the indisputable facts would prevail. I had worked mode excessively hard to scope this constituent successful my vocation to fto taunts deter me. When the blameworthy verdict came connected Dec. 23, 2022, it was much than conscionable vindication for me, it was a triumph for each pistillate who has ever been shamed, dismissed, and blamed for a convulsive transgression committed against them," she said.

5. "Let's not hide erstwhile the Sun did a afloat leafage regular countdown for a week starring up to Emma Watson's 16th birthday, with the header connected the time being thing similar 'She's Finally Legal!' Disgusting. She was 16, and grown men were cheering that a teen is legally allowed to person enactment [with idiosyncratic their age]."

In 2006, the Sun published a countdown to Emma Watson's 16th day (the legal age of consent successful England). Unfortunately, that benignant of attraction didn't extremity there. She told Cosmopolitan UK, "I retrieve connected my 18th birthday, I came retired of my day party, and photographers laid down connected the pavement and took photographs up my skirt, which were past published connected the beforehand of the English tabloid [newspapers] the adjacent morning. If they had published the photographs 24 hours earlier, they would person been illegal, but due to the fact that I had conscionable turned 18, they were legal."

6. "There were vigor countdowns to Natalie Portman's 18th birthday."

During a code astatine the 2018 Women's March, Natalie Portman said, "I was truthful excited astatine 13 erstwhile the movie [The Professional] was released, and my enactment and my creation would person a quality response. I excitedly opened my archetypal instrumentality message to work a rape phantasy that a antheral had written me. A countdown was started connected my section vigor amusement to my 18th birthday, euphemistically, the day that I would beryllium ineligible to slumber with. Movie reviewers talked astir my budding breasts successful reviews... At 13 years old, the connection from our civilization was wide to me. I felt the request to screen my assemblage and to inhibit my look and my enactment successful bid to nonstop my ain connection to the world: That I'm idiosyncratic worthy of information and respect."

7. "There was akin things for the Olsen twins too. It's truthful gross."

In 2004, vigor daze jocks Lex Staley and Terry Jaymes published an "Olsen Twin Jailbait Countdown Clock" online. It wasn't the lone online countdown to Mary-Kate and Ashley's 18th birthday. And erstwhile they hosted Saturday Night Live, Mary-Kate said, "Remember, we're ineligible successful 4 weeks!" during the credits.

8. "I deliberation radical beryllium Rebecca Black an apology for however overmuch hatred she got for 'Friday.'"

"That opus was a hilarious bop. It wasn't bully by immoderate agelong (sorry, Rebecca), but it was specified a happening erstwhile I was successful college. One of the dorms had a country that would blast it retired the model each azygous Friday. It wasn't immoderate worse than your mean worldly connected YouTube successful the mid-aughts, and portion I tin spot radical poking amusive astatine her, it was ne'er acceptable to nonstop decease threats implicit it. I anticipation she's surviving her champion beingness now."

When Rebecca Black was 13, her "Friday" euphony video went viral, with galore viewers dubbing it the "worst opus ever." She was wide ridiculed. When she appeared connected ABC News, the interviewer work a fewer mean comments to her face. Then, erstwhile she asked her astir the meanest remark she'd received, Rebecca recalled a troll who told her wished self-harm, an eating disorder, and decease connected her.

Rising supra it all, Rebecca grew up to beryllium a palmy singer. In 2024, she opened her "TRUST!" euphony video with audio from quality clips, mostly astir "Friday." She told Paper magazine, "Everything I respire is laced with campy these days, and this conception felt similar turning a communicative connected its caput successful a fierce and unapologetic way."

9. "The 1 that ever stuck with maine was Zendaya. This was my archetypal clip ever seeing Zendaya, and I retrieve conscionable seeing this stunning girl. (I americium older and lived overseas for years, truthful I was not up to day with the celebrities astatine the time.) I retrieve watching Fashion Police and proceeding Giuliana Rancic marque that comment. I was sitting determination successful disbelief. I was like, 'How the fuck did she get that idea? Weed and pachouli oil! WTF! It's not similar she rolled up successful Cheech and Chong's van sporting a splif retired of her rima (and if she did, truthful the fuck what!).' I conscionable saw this beauteous young woman with locs and a gorgeous dress, and she rocked the hellhole retired of the full look! I cognize Giuliana said a shaper kept telling her to accidental that, but I don't cognize if that is existent oregon not. But I conscionable find it bizarre and shocking that she would accidental specified a thing. I request to halt being amazed by people's actions."

When Zendaya was 18, she walked the Academy Awards reddish carpet with her hairsbreadth styled successful locs. Criticizing her, Fashion Police big Giuliana Rancic said, "I consciousness similar she smells similar patchouli oil...maybe weed." In a wide praised Instagram response, Zendaya called retired her comments for being "not lone a ample stereotype but outrageously offensive." She said, "My wearing my hairsbreadth successful locs connected an Oscar reddish carpet was to showcase them successful a affirmative airy to punctual radical of colour that our hairsbreadth is bully enough. To maine locs are a awesome of spot and beauty, astir similar a lion's mane."

Giuliana made a nationalist apology, telling E!, "I'd truly similar to code thing that is weighing precise dense connected my heart,” Rancic said connected the E! amusement Tuesday night. "Something I said past nighttime did transverse the line. I privation to accidental to Zendaya and anyone other retired determination that I person wounded that I americium so, truthful sincerely sorry... This incidental has taught maine to beryllium a batch much alert of clichés and stereotypes, however overmuch harm they tin do."

10. "All the Dance Moms kids request an apology from their parents! They fundamentally conscionable stood astir and fto their kids get traumatized and humiliated for an planetary assemblage due to the fact that they wanted to marque them world amusement stars. The full amusement is gross, and Abby Lee Miller (while intelligibly a garbage person) is acold from being the lone villain connected there. The moms were harsh and snippy with each other's kids. They enactment those kids down a lot, and they conscionable stood astir commenting connected however huffy they were that their kids were being treated severely alternatively of really protecting those kids. They tin assertion they did it for their kids' careers, but they fundamentally clambered connected their shoulders to beryllium 'reality stars' themselves."

From 2011-2019, the world bid Dance Moms followed a squad of young dancers from the Abby Lee Dance Company and their mothers. It featured breakout stars similar Maddie Ziegler and JoJo Siwa. The company's proprietor and choreographer, Abby Lee Miller, infamously ranked the girls connected a "pyramid." Abby and the amusement person been wide criticized for their attraction of the girls.

11. "I retrieve erstwhile Vanessa Hudgens's nudes were leaked, immoderate magazines were claiming that the nudes being 'out there' was her cheating connected Zac Efron. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I besides retrieve however idiosyncratic was speedy to make an online crippled wherever you played the relation of a lensman who was taking nudes of her. The crippled took spot successful a edifice room, and you were expected to take from antithetic dialogues to get a cartoon mentation of her to portion until she was afloat nude.🤢"

In 2007, a hacker stole Vanessa Hudgens's backstage nude photos and leaked them to the National Enquirer. She was subjected to wide disapproval and mockery from some the property and the public. A batch of the blasted was placed connected her. In a statement, she said, "I privation to apologize to my fans, whose enactment and spot means the satellite to me. I americium embarrassed implicit this concern and regret having ever taken these photos. I americium thankful for the enactment of my household and friends."

However, successful 2020, Vanessa told Cosmopolitan UK, "It was a truly traumatizing happening for me. It's truly fucked up that radical consciousness similar they are entitled capable to stock thing that idiosyncratic with the world. As an actor, you wholly suffer each grip of your ain privacy, and it's truly sad. It feels similar that shouldn't beryllium the case, but unfortunately, if capable radical are interested, they're going to bash everything they tin to get to cognize arsenic overmuch astir you arsenic they can, which is flattering, I guess, but past radical instrumentality it excessively acold and extremity up divulging things that should beryllium personal."

"I deliberation that is due to the fact that there's a disconnect erstwhile you spot your favourite histrion connected the screen, and you spot them present connected your TV successful your homes, and you tin ticker them whenever you want. There's astir – I don't privation to accidental deficiency of respect due to the fact that that sounds antagonistic – but it conscionable makes you consciousness similar you cognize them adjacent though you don't," she said.

12. "There was a countdown to Britney Spears's 18th birthday."

In 1999, idiosyncratic created a countdown to Britney Spears's 18th birthday, marking the infinitesimal she'd go "legal." It was reportedly 1 of the archetypal personage day countdowns. Early successful her career, she was besides subjected to a disconcerting fig of interrogation questions astir her virginity, her body, and akin topics.

13. "The seemingly topless Vanity Fair photograph of Miley Cyrus ever made maine mad. Mad that she was blamed for it, and huffy astatine the lensman who took it. It wasn't conscionable her back. It was her covered with a expanse successful bed. I deliberation we should person gotten mad, but not astatine Miley! I deliberation it was an Annie Liebowitz photo, and she needs to beryllium called out."

When Miley Cyrus was 15, she was publically shamed implicit a Vanity Fair photoshoot by Annie Leibovitz wherever she posed wrapped successful a sheet, appearing to beryllium topless. At the time, she released a statement, telling People, "My extremity successful my euphony and my acting is ever to marque radical happy. For Vanity Fair, I was truthful honored and thrilled to enactment with Annie [Leibovitz]. I took portion successful a photograph sprout that was expected to beryllium 'artistic,' and now, seeing the photographs and speechmaking the story, I consciousness truthful embarrassed."

However, 10 years later, Miley shared a representation of a New York Post header shaming her and tweeted, "I'M NOT SORRY Fuck YOU."

14. "The 1 that ever deed maine was Soleil Moon Frye. I'm the aforesaid property arsenic her, and I, too, developed a batch and precise early, and it was truthful upsetting to spot however her boobs were the lone happening radical would speech astir and marque amusive of. My bosom conscionable felt for her truthful overmuch due to the fact that I was successful the aforesaid maturation boat, conscionable not nether the media's magnifying solid passim the full thing."

From ages 7–11, Soleil Moon Frye starred connected Punky Brewster. When the amusement ended, she "was going done puberty, and [she] developed precise quickly." She struggled to find age-appropriate jobs and was offered "tits and ass roles," contempt being a child, and antheral producers viewed her arsenic a "wild girl." She besides dealt with insecurity and mistreatment from her peers. In 2021, she told People, "Everywhere I went I was called 'Punky Boobster,' and radical would look straight astatine my boobs... No 1 is successful complaint of however their assemblage develops, but determination was truthful overmuch shame astir it."

Then, she decided to acquisition bosom simplification country astatine 15; she was publically shamed, but she spoke astir it to the property due to the fact that she wanted "kids to cognize that it is good to marque a alteration successful bid to consciousness amended astir themselves." At the time, she told People, "It was a clip erstwhile I was confronting my fears astir becoming a woman. I needed to beryllium definite that I was doing this for myself — not for producers oregon boyfriends oregon my family. It takes a batch of courage."

15. "The Jessica Simpson body-shaming happening was truthful damaging to a batch of young people. I retrieve looking astatine her and reasoning that, if she's this immense whale, what the hellhole was I? It was different manus successful warping the assemblage representation of a generation."

In 2009, Jessica Simpson was wide body-shamed successful the property implicit photos of her performing astatine a chili cook-off successful Texas. For the six months that followed, she disappeared from the nationalist eye. At the time, headlines poked amusive astatine her value and accused her of "letting herself go." In 2020, she told Today, "This representation that circulated and went worldwide broke my heart. Well, not the representation necessarily, but the caption. Like, each the captions...I was taken down by the world."

16. And finally: "Taylor Swift has been slut shamed relentlessly conscionable for dating similar immoderate different mean teenager/young adult."

In 2019, Taylor Swift told Zane Lowe, "When I was, like, 23 and radical were conscionable benignant of reducing maine to … benignant of making slideshows of my dating beingness and putting radical successful determination that I’d sat adjacent to astatine a enactment erstwhile and deciding that my songwriting was similar a instrumentality alternatively than a accomplishment and a craft... In a way, it's figuring retired however to wholly minimize that accomplishment by taking thing that everyone successful their darkest, darkest moments loves to do, which is conscionable to slut-shame, you know? That happened to maine astatine a precise young age, truthful that was a spot hard. That was 1 of the archetypal times I was like, 'Wow, this is not fair.'"

Note: Some responses person been edited for length/clarity.