"“Directors, fans, and Mom praised me endlessly for my over-the-top dramatic responses. Subconsciously, I began to associate catastrophe with adoration; people loved me because make-believe bad things happened to me,” she writes. “I've voted wondered whether - unintentionally- I've brought on my traumas because I'm wired to think they're good for me.”"
"“Panettiere began working in commercials and modeling at 8 months old. She says she can't remember a time before acting. ‘I auditioned for a Playskool toy train commercial,’ she writes. ‘My first memory is watching a miniature Playskool train circle its tracks over and over and over, but that could be because the Playskool ad ran for years.’”"
"“Whenever she lost a tooth, her mother had a specialty set of ‘flippers’ made - filler dentures - so she wouldn't have any gaps in her résumé or her smile.”"
"“Panettiere's biggest struggles came battling postpartum depression, a time in which she self-medicated with alcohol. She eventually gave up custody of her child in order to better pursue recovery.”"
Hayden Panettiere describes a life shaped by early child acting, beginning with commercials and modeling at eight months old. She recalls her first memory as watching a toy train commercial repeatedly, and notes her mother created filler dentures to keep her smile consistent for her résumé. As her career grew, she became a target for bullying at school. Panettiere connects childhood praise for dramatic reactions to a subconscious association between catastrophe and love. She reports struggles with postpartum depression and self-medicating with alcohol. She also gave up custody of her child to pursue recovery, and later opened up about these experiences in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning.
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