Former Child Stars

After playing Pim Diffy on The Disney Channel’s Phil of the Future from 2004-2006, and then Bess in 2007’s Nancy Drew, actress Amy Bruckner decided to step away from Hollywood for a while. In the years since, she’s studied human rights and feminist theory at NYU and backpacked through Europe. Now 24, she is ready to…

  Susan Olsen may be best-known for playing cherubic Cindy Brady in The Brady Bunch, but she has another interesting credit to her name. Olsen worked on Love Probe From A Warm Planet–but, don’t worry, though; she didn’t actually act in the XXX film. “I had a friend who edited porn films,” Susan, now 53,…

These days, Steven Antony Lawrence is primarily known for two things: Playing Beans on Disney Channel’s Even Stevens and, unfortunately, being the butt of the joke when Tyler the Creator used a current picture of Steven for his Twitter profile. Really, though, the former child star seems to be better adjusted than most… “What I’m…

This former child superstar was unrecognizable when walking through the airport this week. Find out who he is… And what he looks like these days without the glasses!

Have you ever seen a grown-up former child star on TV or magazines and thought, “You used to be cute”? Formerly adorable and currently handsome Jonathan Lipnicki poked fun at that common phrase in a new video. (Plus details on what he’s actually up to now!)

All people of a certain age know who Alyson Stoner is (even if they don’t recognize her by name). She’s worked extremely steadily with voiceover work since her hey-day of dancing in Missy Elliott’s music videos, but recently got back in front of the camera… There’s just one word to describe my reaction: WOW.

In this edition of “Where Are They Now?,” former child star Shaun Weiss just earned a restraining order for allegedly threatening his girlfriend with a machete and peeing on her.