Former idol teen says she "lived a double life"
Jennifer Gray opens to be a high school diploma that have also been shared with celebrities.
She became famousplay teenagers in two of the biggest films of the 80s, butJennifer Gray's The first teenage years were very different from what she represented on the screen. In his new memoir,Out of the corner, theDirty dancing andFERRIS BUELLER DAY OFF star Opens on various aspects of his personal life and his actor career, including the "double life" she has experienced as a teenager. On the one hand, she was a high school student, but on the other hand, she dragged into discos with celebrities and other people more than herself - and it was well before becoming a movie star . Read more about Gray's childhood rebellion and see how she looks at it now.
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She has experienced a "double life" as a teenager.
Gray grew up in New York and is the daughter ofCabaret starJOEL GRAYand actor and singerJo Wilder. For this reason, she had access to the world of the rich and famous that normal teenagers do not have. In a new interview withPeopleahead of the release ofOut of the corner, shelook at these strange days.
"Yes, there were a lot of drugs and drinking," Gray said. "All the time. I had a boyfriend, we were outside in the clubs at night. I would change at home and go to school. I lived a double life. I'm like just trying to cross the years of high school So I can continue my life because I do not go out guys my age. I'm not interested ... I have never dated teenager in my life. I do not think I even kissed a teenager. "
She was part of some emblematic celebrities.
Gray explained that she attended studio 54 and dragged withAndy Warhol friends group.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I saw everything," she continued toPeople. "That's why the high school was so scratched impossible. As it was so boring. I was dragging at [Andy Warhol] the factory during the day and 54 at night. I was a lot in the gang, coming out of the house of Andy in Montauk where the stones had just left. We were going to hearDolly Parton Singing Windows on the world, right? "
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She felt a pressure to be perfect.
Gray explained that both sides of his life took off the expectations of his family. "The good girl who is not allowed to be something other than perfect, so she must hide all this other experience, which is really individualized," she said. And while she said she loved her parents and thought they were "then [explant] cool," she added, "There was an expected perfectionism and perfectionism. The standards were high. All Around me were very successful. It was a lot of pressure. "
She became famous a few years later.
A little time spent between Gray rebellious adolescent days and his career takes off. In 1984, when she was 24, she appeared in her first movies:Reckless,Red Dawn, andThe cotton club. Two years later, she appeared inFERRIS BUELLER DAY OFF as the sister of the main character. Then, in 1987, she played inDirty dancing As a young baby woman aged 18, having filmed the role when she was 26 years old.
She is now raised a teenager herself.
Gray has now seen adolescence of the years on the side of the parent. She has a 20 year old girl,Stella Gregg, with his ex-husband, actorClark Gregg. Gray sometimes shares moments with his daughter on his Instagram account, includingHis high school diploma and celebration birthday positions. In December 2021, shePosted a photo of Stella And written, "like this person. Happy birthday my sweetheart Stella # THISIS20> @stellagggslow yer roll, it's going too fast!"
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