From Melissa Joan Hart taking care of her little siblings to Sydney Sweeney paying her mom's mortgage, see how these young stars helped their families after finding early success
From Melissa Joan Hart taking care of her little siblings to Sydney Sweeney paying her mom's mortgage, see how these young stars helped out their familiesAlexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since April 2022. Her work previously appeared inhave been acting for as long as they can remember and ultimately became their family's"breadwinners" because of their early successes.
“That’s always been a fear of theirs, always has been. Just because the opportunity of me leaving them high and dry was right there," she continued. "People have done it before. Child stars have done it before, but I would never do that to my family.”“I watched my parents lose a lot.
"It just hit a point where my dad could no longer do a job because if he did a job, then there would be nobody to take care of my older sister and my younger siblings because my mom was always with me," she told the. "So it was like, all of our roles were switched.
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