Anna Chlumsky

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Whatever Happened to My Girl's Anna Chlumsky?

Originally posted 07/27/2009 02:20PM

She broke your heart and won rave reviews as the earnest kid in the coming-of-age drama My Girl. And then, a few years later, Anna Chlumsky had her own heart broken – by Hollywood.

"Show business got really tainted for me," the actress, now 28, says. Growing up with her mother as her acting coach and manager didn't always help, and scoring Hollywood fame at the age of 10 was in some ways more of a burden than a joy.

"Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright," she says. "But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy."

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