Miranda Cosgrove Opens Up About the ‘Pressure’ of Being a Child Star on ‘iCarly’: ‘I Would Ignore Nice Comments and Look for the Mean One’

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It’s not easy being a teen. Miranda Cosgrove opened up about her time in front of the camera on Nickelodeon’s iCarly — and she admitted it wasn’t always a walk in the park.“For sure there was pressure,” Cosgrove, 29, revealed during the Monday, September 5, episode of the “Reign With Josh Smith” podcast. “Even when you’re not on TV or acting or anything, just growing up, there’s a lot of pressure to try to figure so many things out.”The California native, who was 14 when the teen comedy premiered, starred as the show’s titular character Carly Shay from September 2007 to November 2012 — the entirety of the show’s six-season run.The sitcom, which was created by Dan Schneider, followed Carly as she created and hosted her own web show with the help of her best friends Sam (Jennette McCurdy) and Freddie (Nathan Kress) from the apartment she shares with her brother Spencer Shay (Jerry Trainor).

As the show-within-a-show became a phenomenon, the characters were tasked with balancing their normal lives with the outlandish situations and harsh realities of their newfound fame — something Cosgrove related to offscreen as well.“When I was younger, I would go through and kind of ignore all the nice comments and look for the one mean one,” she explained of her experience on social media as a young celebrity. “I would be going through for awhile and be like, ‘Oh, found it!’”Now, however, the School of Rock star, who returned for Paramount+’s reboot of the series in 2021, looks back at her experience on the show with a new set of eyes.“I feel like when I was younger, I didn’t think about it as much as I do now,” she said. “Looking back, I think, ‘That seems like it would’ve been really hard.’ But when I was doing it, I wasn’t really