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Originally Posted by bots
to me jojo is a less extreme version of britney spears or michael jackson. A domineering parent using her for financial gain, and this is the result. It's really no surprise that she ends up screwed up
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I agree with that, I get the impression Jojo and her mum have a generally close and affectionate relationship which makes some difference compared to people like Britney, MJ, Macaulay Culkin and countless other examples (I saw that Hayley Joel Osment was arrested while coked off his eyeballs recently) which is why on the surface she's not quite as openly broken, but the same mechanism is there - pushed towards performing and fame from WAY before they were old enough to choose for themselves... And I imagine the family income is basically her income (her mum being "full time" momager etc).
Its never a good dynamic to have that much pressure on the youngest person. The "most well adjusted" child stars are the ones that come from a theatrical background, and that's because they tend to have independently wealthy parents and went to private stage schools for funsies and got into acting etc. because they didn't need to work at all to be financially stable.