Former "Sound of Music" child star Debbie Turner helped decorate the White House for Christmas in 2017, detailing Melania Trump’s role in creating the holiday display.

A resurfaced video of former Nickelodeon child star Tylor Chase, who played Martin Qwerly on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, has fans heartbroken — and asking why getting mental health help is still so hard, especially in the wake of Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner’s deaths.

Arnold Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes made Gary Coleman one of the most familiar former child stars in the late 1970s. He was a household name due to his catchphrases and screen personality. Nevertheless, he struggled later in life.

Being left home alone was the least of child actor Macaulay Culkin’s problems as a kid. The now 45-year-old survivor claims he was regularly placed in dangerous situations on-set, including fleeing rampaging insects and ravenous reptiles,

Being a child star sounds like a kind of purgatory: Sure, you get fame, fortune, and don't have to go to school, but you also grow up fast, are at risk of being taken advantage of financially, and lose out on many aspects of a "normal" childhood.