Disney allegedly endeavor to keep 18 - year - old Vanessa Hudgens on " lockdown " after her nude photos were leaked and made her release an excuse . She afterward called the integral situation " really traumatizing . "

Both the entertainment industry and the press have an unfortunately long history of mistreating women, no matter their age. In recent years, these women have been speaking out.

Here are 17 young female celebs who deserved way better from Hollywood and the media:

Some entries contain quotation of sexual assault and eating disorders .

1.When 11-year-oldKirsten DunstfilmedInterview with a Vampire, she had to kiss 31-year-oldBrad Pittonscreen. While promoting the film, she toldEntertainment Tonightabout how “gross” the kiss was.

Here’s the full interview clip:

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2.OnTwitterin 2023, former child actorAlexa Nikolasallegedthat, when she was around 15 or 16, then-24-year-oldJonah Hillforced himself on her at a house party. She added, “This type of predatory behavior was hyper normalized when I was a kid.”

Jonah Hill ’s legal interpreter told theIndependentthat her claims were " a complete fabrication " and " never take place . "

Previously, Alexa has spoken out about her experience working onZoey 101at 12 and how she didn’t “feel safe” around series creator Dan Schneider. In a 2022Instagram Livefrom a protest she held outside Nickelodeon, she said, “I did not feel protected at Nickelodeon as a child, personally, I’m demanding that Nickelodeon starts protecting children and not predators.”

She ’s also the founder ofEat Predators , an organization that preach for subsister of sexual abuse . The org ’s mission is " to bring an end to the pervasive natural covering - up of sexual ill-treatment and predatory behavior within the music and entertainment industriousness . "

Here’s the full video from her protest:

3.When Raven-Symoné was 7, she was barred from eating certain foods, such as bagels, at craft services on set, and she was told she was “getting fat” by people she worked with.

On a 2015 episode ofThe View , she say , " I ’m not gon na put them on attack , but that ’s what I was told at that young of an age , even up until I obtain up to 180 pound onThat ’s So Raven . You know , you put nasty stuff in front of me or you put these ikon of adult female that I ’ll never aspire to , of course I ’m gon na get depressed . It ’s more than just the nutrient . "

4.At 14, Brooke Shields starred inThe Blue Lagoon, which required her to spend most of filming with only her hair covering her breasts. In her documentaryPretty Baby: Brooke Shields, she said that director Randal Kleiser was trying to turn the film into a “reality show” and that he “wanted to sell [her] actual sexual awakening.”

OnThe Drew Barrymore Show, Brooke said she declined the director’s calls after the documentary released. Then, she more broadly called out the male directors who treated her as an underage sex object early in her career.

You can watch the full clip below:

5.At 9, JoJo Siwa joined the cast ofDance Moms. Her instructor, Abby Lee Miller, was known for treating her young students harshly. On one episode, she told her dance class, “I asked each of you to do a homework assignment, I wanted you to write about JoJo; reasons she should not be part of the Abby Lee Dance Company.” Then, she had the other girls read off their criticisms of JoJo.

As JoJo arrest back tear , Abby Lee told her , " You ’re prosperous to even be a invitee here at the ALDC . If you ’re so good , you do n’t really need to be a part of the Abby Lee Dance Company . " Then , to the others , she shouted , " She deserves nothing ! Do n’t have an attitude that you are title in this worldly concern , you deserve nothing . "

At 19, JoJo shared the episode clip on herTikTokwith the caption, “When people try and hurt me, but this was my childhood.”

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She continued , " I ’ll go forward doing what I bang and spreading the message in order of magnitude to make change . countenance ’s focus on what needs changing , and I hope this TV inform you on the thing that go on behind the scene of the headlines and flashing lights . "

Similarly, when she was 15, she seemingly called out critics whosaidher SAG Awards outfit was “too mature” for her. She toldHarper’s Bazaar, “It’s always difficult to dress for a red carpet event because a lot of people have opinions, and unfortunately, you say you won’t listen to it, but you actually kind of have to. For me, I sit there and think, I’m not going to listen to what they have to say, journalists or whoever wants to write badly about my inappropriate outfit.”

On her evolving style , she add , " I would really enjoy wearing more tally clothes now . I find like I ’m becoming someone and being a woman , so I just need to show that . "

7.When Vanessa Hudgens was 18, her nude photos were leaked online. She wasmadeto release an apologystatement, saying she was “embarrassed over this situation and regret[s] having ever taken these photos.” Fellow Disney star Joe Jonas toldVulturehe “heard that she had to be in the Disney offices for a whole day because they were trying to figure out how to keep her on lockdown.”

Joe continued , " We ’d hear execs blab about it , and they would tell us that they were so gallant of us for not making the same mistake , which made us find like we could n’t ever mess up up . "

Reflecting on the situation 13 years later, Vanessa toldCosmopolitan UK, “It was a really traumatizing thing for me. It’s really fucked up that people feel like they are entitled enough to share something that personal with the world.”

She continued , " As an doer , you wholly lose all grip of your own seclusion , and it ’s really lamentable . It feels like that should n’t be the subject , but unluckily , if enough people are interested , they ’re going to do everything they can to get to know as much about you as they can , which is flattering , I guess , but then people take it too far and end up divulging things that should be personal . "

8.When Rihanna was 17, she was subjected torumorsthat Jay-Z was cheating on Beyoncé with her. However, 10 years later, her ex-publicist, Jonathan Hay,admittedto making up the story “out of desperation to help break ‘Pon de Replay.'”

He narrate J. Randy Taraborrelli , the writer ofBecoming Beyonce : The UntoldStory , " It was reckless , and I did n’t think it was going to run . I was just have spaghetti at the bulwark to see what would stick . "

9.OnHigh Low with EmRata, Bella Thorne said, “I had a director give me feedback once, and I was 10. The casting director calls my agent, and the agent calls my mom, and they’re like, ‘So, she’s not moving forward because the director felt like she was flirting with him, and it made him really uncomfortable.’ … What the fuck are you talking about, man? I don’t give a fuck what the fuck I said… She is 10 years old. Why would you ever think that?”

She also said , " One prison term , I almost got fired off of Disney Channel ‘cause I was 14 , and I wear thin a two - piece of music on the beach . This styler that I was hanging out with put this concatenation on me — it was like a consistence mountain range . I do n’t know , I do n’t like . There was a buff , they got a pic of me on the beach . I almost got burn . It was all over the media , it was literally viral at that time . "

10.During her Disney Channel days, Demi Lovato worked practically nonstop. She filmed a movie and a season of a TV show, recorded an album, and went on tour every year for three years. OnCall Her Daddy, she said, “There was this extreme workload that I think put a lot of pressure on us, and that’s why some of us turned to… I personally turned to, ‘If you’re going to work me like an adult, I’m going to party like an adult.’ That at 16 wasn’t healthy at all.”

They also said , " At a certain item , I was paying for the roof over my whole family ’s head , and my dad had quit his job to become my manager so his income was coming from me . My ma was a stay - at - home mom , and there was just that pressure of ' I ’m paying for everything , and like , I call for to keep going because if things start to vanish , so does the finance . ' "

During a 2020Sonny with a Chancevirtual reunion, Demi spoke about being overworked while also having an eating disorder. They said, “I was underweight and freezing… I would have people over for meetings on my lunch breaks, because that’s how much I worked. People would come in, and I’d be covered in a blanket on the couch, and they were like, ‘Why is it 80 degrees in here?’ I would be like, ‘Because I’m freezing.’ They would be like, ‘Oh, my God, what’s wrong with you?'”

She also said , " I was so miserable and angry , too , because I feel like I was being overworked . "

Here’s the full video, with this part starting around the 19:44 mark:

11.In 2022, Kate Winslet told theSunday Times, “When I was younger, my agent would get calls saying, ‘How’s her weight?'”

She also called out journalists and fans whoclaimedher weight was the reason Jack couldn’t take refuge on the door with Rose at the end ofTitanic. On theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast, she said, “Apparently, I was too fat. Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even fucking fat. If I could turn back the clock, I would’ve used my voice in a completely different way.”

" I would have absolutely said to journalists , I would have respond , I would have said , ' Do n’t you dare treat me like this . I ’m a young woman , my eubstance is changing , I ’m figuring it out , I ’m deep unsafe , I ’m terrified , do n’t make this any harder than it already is . ' That ’s bullying , you know , and actually borderline abusive , I would say , " she said .

She also suppose , " My wear my fuzz in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive Light Within to cue people of color that our hair is good enough . To me locs are a symbol of strength and stunner , almost like a Panthera leo ’s mane . "

13.When Miley Cyrus was 15, she was publicly shamed over a Vanity Fair photoshoot where she posed with her back exposed. At the time, she released astatementsaying she was “so embarrassed” by the pictures, but 10 years later, she shared a picture of a New York Post headline shaming her andtweeted, “I’M NOT SORRY Fuck YOU.”

Additionally, starring onHannah Montanafrom ages 11–18 “probably caused some body dysmorphia because [she] had been made pretty every day for so long.” While shooting, she also had to work 12-hour days. Because the hours were so long, her mother suggested bringing in the kind of lights that are used to treat seasonal affective disorder.

Miley toldMarie Claire , " Every morn , I was getting coffee jam down my pharynx to wake up me up . I just had to keep going , be tough , be strong . Everything materialize to me on that band . "

14.From ages 7–11, Soleil Moon Frye starred onPunky Brewster.When the show ended, she “wasgoing through puberty, and [she] developed very quickly.” She struggled to find age-appropriate jobs and wasoffered"tits and ass roles,” despite being a child, and male producers viewed her as a “wild girl.” She also dealt with insecurity and mistreatment from her peers.

In 2021 , she toldPeople , " Everywhere I work I was promise ' Punky Boobster , ' and mass would gaze directly at my boobs … No one is in charge of how their body develops , but there was so much shame about it . "

Then, she decided to undergo breast reduction surgery at 15; she was publicly shamed, but she spoke about it to the press because shewanted"kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves."

At the time , she toldPeople , " It was a time when I was confronting my fears about becoming a woman . I ask to be sure that I was doing this for myself — not for producer or swain or my family . It takes a lot of courageousness . "

15.The year Emma Watson turned 16, the British tabloid the Sunpublisheda countdown to her birthday (for context, 16 is thelegal ageof consent in England).

The harassment she faced from tabloids worsened as she got older. During aHeForShe speech, she said, “I remember on my 18th birthday, I came out of my birthday party and photographers laid down on the pavement and took photographs up my skirt, which were then published on the front of the English tabloid [newspapers] the next morning.”

She continue , " If they had published the photographs 24 hours earlier , they would have been illegal , but because I had just wrick 18 , they were legal . "

16.During aspeechat the 2018 Women’s March, Natalie Portman spoke about the “sexual terrorism” she faced after starring inLéon: The Professionalat 13, which led her to build “a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel that [her] body was safe and that [her] voice would be listened to.”

You can watch her full speech below:

17.And finally, in her late teens, Britney Spears wassubjectedto invasive questions about her body and her virginity. She had to deal with such speculation into her 20s.

Here’s the full clip, with this line of questioning starting at the 2:05 mark:

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