This former star child stopped playing because she was "embarrassed" by his roles
Jennette McCurdy played on the Nickelodeon shows Icarly and Sam & Cat.
Former children starswho stopped playing Once they have aged, everyone has their own reasons, whether it is the disinterest of performance, a difficult transition to adult roles or simply want to continue something else. Others did not really like being children actors in the first place. As for a Nickelodeon star,Icarly'sJennette McCurdy, she stopped acting because she was "embarrassed" by the roles she played.
McCUNDY came to glory in 2007 when she started playing Sam Puckett on the series focused on children, although she appeared in films and has won many roles with guests before that. She stayed on the series until 2012, then, in 2013, began to show off the spin-offSam & Cat, next toAriana Grande. This show took place until 2014.
McCUNDY was frank on the way she thinks of the shows that made her famous, even by writing a book to come on the dangers of children's celebrity. Read the rest to find out why the 30 -year -old young woman is so "shameful" from her start of her career and to discover what she is doing now.
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She wants her career.
McCurdy's most recent credited roles were in 2018, while she was in the filmLittle [Expletive] And the short filmThe First Lady. In February 2021, she shared her podcast,Empty inside, that she had decided to withdraw from the action and explained that it had to do with the roles for which she was famous.
"My experience with the theater is, I am soshame of pieces I have done in the past, "she said during a conversation withAnna Faris(via E! News). "I feel my career in many ways. I feel so dissatisfied with the roles that I played and I had the impression that it was the most cheesy and the most embarrassing. I made the shows that I was doing 13 to 21 years old, and at 15, I was already embarrassed. My friends at 15, they are not like: "Oh, cool, you are on this Nickelodeon show." It was embarrassing. And I imagine there is a very different experience to live if you are proud of your roles, and if you feel fulfilled by them. "
His family situation also contributed to his misfortune.
McCURDY also explained that she was never so interested in acting in the first place, but that she was pushed in by her mother.
"I left a few years ago because I didn't want to do it," she said. "My mother put me in it when I was six years old and in a way, I suppose, 10 or 11 years old, I was the main financial support for my family. My family did not have much money, and It was the way out, which I think was useful to lead to a certain degree of success. "
MccurdyMother died of cancer In 2013, how much McCurdy reassembled his options. "... I finally stopped after my mother died because with her death died a lot of her ideas for my life, and it was her own trip, and difficult to", She declared.
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She played in a woman's show.
McCUNDY again played after retirement but only in his show of a woman, entitledI'm glad my mother is dead. She said on her podcast that the show would probably be her only return to the theater. "I did it right for this show, but I think that this show of a woman would be the most," she said.
In the room, McCurdy opens to be physically and emotionally abused by his mother and suffering from food disorders.
"My mother had always dreamed of being a famous actor and she became obsessed with me a star,"she said People In 2021. "I felt like my job was to maintain peace. And I wanted to make my mother happy."
She is a writer, director and host of Podcast.
OnMcCurdy's podcast, she sits for conversations with guests - often others from the entertainment industry - and focuses on a subject by episode, for example "perseverance", "doubt of self" and "authenticity".AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
In addition to hostingEmpty inside, McCURDY also focused on writing and realization.
"Despite its external success, McCurdy was ashamed of 90% of his curriculum vitae and finally dissatisfied, so she turned to alcohol, but as it did not work, she stopped acting and started to Continue writing / staging in 2017 ","Son website reads. "She wrote / made a pilot and four short films."
She has a book on her experience that comes out soon.
McCurdy alsowrote an upcoming book, with the same controversial title as her show of a woman, who will be released on August 9.
"It was important for me to explore the emotional and psychological abuses that I have endured during my time as a young interpreter," she said Weekly entertainment of the book. "I think I did not have the tools, language or support necessary to speak for me at the time, so this book is a way for me not only to honor this experience and give a voice to my old Me, but I hope to encourage young people to speak for themselves in environments where they can be conditioned to "play ball" and to "be a good sport". (Sorry for sports idioms, I have never practiced sport, so I don't know why they pour me.) "
