All girls in Hollywood are dumb and shallow. Sometimes it seems that way when you read the magazines and the celebrity news and gossip sites. The Lindsay Lohan’s and Britney Spears make it look like that but that’s only because they’re the ones that get all the media attention. There are girls out there that prove the opposite.
I’m not saying that people like Lindsay Lohan are dumb, I’ve never seen their school report cards; they just made the wrong choices. To the general audience they just seem that way also because you never know what is true and what isn’t. Most of the girls in Hollywood finish high school say that they want to go to college but don’t in the end. This is understandable looking at the busy schedules they have and that theire jobs usually pay well so there isn’t a need for a college degree in that department.
There are quite a few girls out there that are serious about an education though. Natalie Portman for example, she has a college degree in psychology from Harvard. She has even indicated that she would leave acting at some point and work as a psychologist, though I have my doubts that that would work. I don’t know if a lot of people would be willing to go to a psychologist who’s famous. Not to mention it’s quite hard to keep up with the latest development in a field of health care when you aren’t active in it.
It’s also the difference between kids that get pushed into show business and others that get into acting and just like it. There are a lot of cases where the mothers push their kids, like it seems to be the way with Dina Lohan and Lindsay. Take Sofia Vassilieva, both her parents hold Ph.D.’s not really the kind of people that would push their daughter into acting. She herself would have the brains to do something similar, not that many fourteen year olds that are fluent in four languages. I don’t know whether she wants to go to college or not, though I suspect she will be going.
The best example of girls in Hollywood not just being dumb would probably a pair of sisters: Danielle and Kay Panabaker. Skipping grades in school isn’t that rare a thing, when you’re a teenage girl who also has an acting career there is the problem of just having less time to spend on school. Yet Danielle managed to finish high school when she was fourteen, now she’s nineteen and she’s in her “senior year at UCLA. How many “normal” kids manage that? Have basically a full-time job and manage to finish school far ahead of schedule.
Just when you think that’s an extreme example, take a look at Danielle’s sister Kay. She’s basically one year ahead of Danielle, she finished high school when she was thirteen and managed to get her associates degree in college at the age of fifteen. She’s also going to college at UCLA as a history major now while she continues to act in movies, she doesn’t have a weekly TV show anymore since Summerland got cancelled but she keeps busy with movie projects.
That’s just the thing, things like that don’t make the press. If anything they’re questioned to be true, I bet if Danielle Panabaker would be caught driving drunk it would make the press (she actually plays a character on her TV show Shark that gets caught driving drunk). The fact that she’s close to finishing college won’t. Which is sad really, the world just wants to see the bad things in Hollywood. The fact that there are girls that are different doesn’t seem to matter.
People just don’t want to see the positive examples in Hollywood, people should know that there are a couple though.
Tags: Danielle Panabaker, Kay Panabaker, Natalie Portman, Sofia Vassilieva
