Zendaya opens up about the weight of being her family’s breadwinner as a child

April 10, 2024, 3:20 p.m. Zendaya and Tom Holland enjoy Usher concert Zendaya began working as a child actress in commercials when she was just 12 years old. Zendaya opened up about her career as a child star and how she now, looking back, wishes she had gone to school. Zendaya is perhaps most famous […]

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Zendaya opens up about the weight of being her family’s breadwinner as a child

April 10, 2024, 3:20 p.m.

Zendaya and Tom Holland enjoy Usher concert

Zendaya began working as a child actress in commercials when she was just 12 years old.

Zendaya opened up about her career as a child star and how she now, looking back, wishes she had gone to school.

Zendaya is perhaps most famous today for her work in Euphoria, Dune and the Spider Man films, but she first rose to fame as a child actress. From commercials to Kidz Bop, Zendaya has done it all and she started working at the age of 12. Zendaya went on to become one of the biggest stars of her generation after starring in Shake it And KC Undercover on Disney Channel.

Now, Zendaya has revealed how she feels as an adult about working and supporting her family from a young age.

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Talk to VogueZendaya said: “I don’t know how much choice I had. I have complicated feelings about kids and fame and being in the public eye, or being a child actor We’ve seen a lot of cases where it was I think it’s only now, as an adult, that I’m starting to say, “Oh, okay, wait a minute: I only did what I knew, and it is all I knew.”

Zendaya then revealed that she felt like she was now an adult. She said: “I’m almost going through my angsty teenage phase now, because I didn’t really have the time to do that before. I felt like I was being put in a very adult position: I was becoming the breadwinner of my family. very early on, and there was a lot of role reversal.”

Zendaya added that having to become “grown up” so young was difficult and that she felt like she had to be “this perfect being and be everything that everyone needs.” [her] to be and live up to all these expectations. »

Zendaya and Ross Butler in KC Undercover.

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Zendaya admitted that working at such a young age means she struggles to rejoice in her achievements today. She said: “Now when I have these moments in my career, like the first time I direct a film that’s going to be shown in the cinema, I feel like I’m shrinking and I can’t enjoy all that happening. volume.”

She ended by saying: “I am very tense, and I think I’ve been carrying this since I was a kid and never really had the chance to just to try shit. And I would have liked to go to school.”