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Anna Chlumsky Reveals Why She Quit Acting for Nearly a Decade

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Anna Chlumsky is getting candid about her career. In a new interview with People, the 41-year-old actress described what it was like being a child star and why she decided to take a break from acting for a number of years. Click inside to read more… “We know so much more about what it is to be a child who is put into performing,” she told the outlet. Anna rose to fame at age 11 with My Girl, starring alongside Macauley Culkin. “As a kid, you’re just along for the ride, but it can be extremely damaging. [In college] I had this out-of-body moment where I realized, ‘I don’t have to do this anymore,’” she explained.

She left the entertainment industry for nearly a decade before returning, appearing in shows like Veep and Halt and Catch Fire.

Her latest role is in Shonda Rhimes‘ new Netflix series, Inventing Anna. “Throughout my adolescence, I was not getting booked, I was told I was too fat or too ugly,” Anna recalled. “You live on a risk-reward system and I wasn’t getting much reward.

And I knew I always wanted to go to school and get my education so I did that. And I’m glad that I did.” She went on to attend the University of Chicago, where she met her husband Shaun So, and also worked as a fact-checker for Zagat as well as an editorial assistant at Harper Collins. “I was seeing a lot of Broadway, and I was inspired again,” she said of deciding to act again. “And it was alluring to apply my creativity towards something and tell a story — but of my own decision making.” She enrolled in Atlantic Acting School and told herself she’d “give it a year.” But by the first day, she realized she was in it for the long run. “I’ve learned a lot in my career,” Anna said. “And [what I've been through] is life-defining.

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