Donny Osmond admits the child star curse is ‘really difficult to break’
nypost.comchild star curse.While the 64-year-old entertainer got his start in Hollywood at the early age of 5, he’s tried to keep himself scandal-free over the decades.Osmond attributed his repeated fixation on constantly reinventing himself to be the key to staying out of the headlines.“It is a curse when you hit it big as a little kid because everyone wants to keep you in that pigeonhole,” the Osmonds member recently told Fox News.“And it’s really difficult to break out of it.
Some people have been able to do it successfully. Look at Justin Bieber. He’s done an amazing job. However, he didn’t go through it easily either.
He had some hard times breaking through that image.”The former “Pyramid” host said that patience was key in making it happen for himself.“I decided long ago that I wasn’t going to do it with scandals, trickery or promotional campaigns,” he said. “I was going to do it with my music, which is a really difficult way to do it.
But it happened. And it took me 10 years. But I wanted the music to speak for itself.”“It’s very difficult to break out of that teenybopper career.
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