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[[File:britney spears into womanhood 4915.jpg|link=Britney Spears|frame|[[Creator Breakdown|With great difficulty.]]]]
{{quote|"''I'm honoured that people would think of me as a role model. On the other hand, I think it's sort of dangerous to choose a person and lift them so high - because at one point, I'm going to play a role that somebody doesn't like!''"
|'''Anika Noni Rose''', on her role in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''}}
When a young actor comes to public prominence in association with clean, wholesome family entertainment roles, the expectation of studios and audiences is that the actor's personal life will reflect the same upright morality of the character he or she plays.
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** Her performance of her hit single, "Party in the USA", at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, which involved her wearing a low cut shirt and shorts that were [[Stripperiffic|small enough to be considered panties]], surrounded by scantily-clad backup dancers, and ''dancing on a pole'' coming out an ice cream cart. [[Word of God|Cyrus]] said said it was [[Stealth Parody|a parody]] of how the media sees Miley and her [[Deep South|Southern roots]] and pop success in Hollywood. The setting was made to resemble "[[Rated "G" for Gangsta|a blinged-out trailer park]]". It can be argued that she was using that pole to keep from falling off the moving cart she was standing on, but was the cart even necessary?
*** This brings up the issue of a [[Double Standard]]. This is the Teen Choice Awards, the same one that invited [[Misaimed Marketing|R-rated entertainers]] the likes of [[Snoop Dogg]] and [[Chris Rock]] to be presenters, and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|racy adult pop performers]] like the [[Pussycat Dolls]], [[Katy Perry]] and Sean Kingston, on a show for kids. Of course, it's the Disney star sliding down a pole that [[Unfortunate Implications|gets all the controversy]], even ironically.
*** The reason is obvious and it demonstrates the trope in action; the Disney star is held to a different standard because Disney's past efforts have been unambiguously targeted at children and this pigeonholes them as exclusively a children's entertainer. While the others may be popular with younger audiences, their initial audiences (at least in the case of Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga and Chris Rock) weren't necessarily kids, so they're less likely to be thought of as
** Her videos for her singles, "Can't Be Tamed" and "Who Owns My Heart", appear to be an example of this trope striking again.
** TMZ released a [http://www.tmz.com/2010/05/11/miley-cyrus-dirty-dancing-adam-shankman-movie-wrap-party-grind-so-you-think-you-can-dance video] of Cyrus grinding on the 44
** Attempts to drum up outrage over a video showing Cyrus smoking pot backfired when it turned out that it was salvia, which is legal in California where the video was recorded.
** This [https://web.archive.org/web/20171106092409/http://laist.com/attachments/laist_lauren/Miley-Cyrus-penis-cake-01-TMZ.jpg picture]. NSFW.
** By 2014 there was no outrage left, what with the twerking and all. And five years later she began shifting ''back''.
* [[Hilary Duff]], Disney's ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'', has somehow managed to avoid this for years, despite several close calls. She keeps a low profile in the press, doesn't publicly party, drink, or go out without underwear, and keeps mostly to family-friendly roles like ''[[A Cinderella Story]]'' and ''[[Raise Your Voice]]''. While there were some minor controversies involving her relationship with [[May–December Romance|10-years-her-senior]] [[Good Charlotte|Joel Madden]] and her roles in ''War, Inc.'' where she played a spoiled, slutty foreign pop star who gets the main character's attention by ''putting a live scorpion down her pants''. Of course, it helped her image that her character was a tragic parody of young, oversexed [[Idol Singer|idol singers]], complete with a pimp who planned on having her "star" in a porn movie. and on ''[[Gossip Girl]]''.<ref>Specifically, there was controversy over a scene of her in a ''ménage à trois'' with Dan and Vanessa; most of the [[Moral Guardians]]' ire, however, was aimed at the show's writers and at [[The CW]] rather than at Hilary herself.</ref> All of these blew over very quickly, and failed to tarnish her squeaky-clean image. It's clear she's overall succeeded in averting this. It also helps that she married a hockey player (generally the least scandal-prone of the major sports leagues) and is having her first baby, ''within'' wedlock, with him, at the relatively young but perfectly reasonable age of 23.
** She lampshaded it in an interview on Chelsea Lately, when they talked about how she got pregnant.
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** It's possible being Duff's second banana got to Lalaine, as well. It's speculated this is why she [[Brother Chuck|doesn't appear in the last part of the last season, or the movie]]. It does appear she's recovered from this stigma; she's now the bassist for an all-girl indy rock band.
* [[Zac Efron]] and [[Vanessa Hudgens]] of ''[[High School Musical]]'', who were [[Romance on the Set|dating in real life]], have caught a bit of flak for such terrible things as making out on the beach and letting it be known that they were *gasp* possibly doing things of a more intimate nature. Seeing as how they were pretty much a perfectly-normal couple in their mid-twenties, it was all a little ridiculous. They have both politely but firmly explained this. Repeatedly.
** Hudgens' multiple nude photo scandals, however, are a far straighter example. On top of the usual outcry about a kid-friendly actress posing naked, there were also concerns about Vanessa's age when she took the pictures—while she's in her early twenties now, she was [[Jail Bait|about 17 or 18]] when the first ''[[High School Musical]]'' film came out, which is also around when some of the photos (at least the first batch of them) are believed to have been made. Of course, the fact that the photos weren't made for public consumption is pretty much lost on the [[Moral Guardians]]. In addition, the leaks of said photos probably [[Tropes Are Tools|helped Hudgens break out of her Disney
** Not so much purity, but Efron was asked by Disney to downplay some of his hobbies to the public, like playing [[World of Warcraft]], reading Manga (especially ''[[Death Note]]''), and generally being something of a nerd. WTF!
* Kiely Williams might have harpooned her career with this. Starting out in the [[Girl Group]] 3LW (which got their start during the [[Tastes Like Diabetes|sugary sweet]] bubblegum pop era of the early 2000s) and then moving on to being in [[The Cheetah Girls]], she was one of Disney's poster children for a while. Then she does a little video called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J96ujGstSUw "Spectacular"]. To sum up the song, the girl goes out, gets really drunk (it's not hard to imagine she was possibly drugged), and has anonymous sex with a random guy. She can't remember his name, but she doesn't really care "because the sex was spectacular." Kiely tried to backpedal on this by saying it was supposed to encourage women to avoid these situations, but when it's really easy to turn the song's lyrics into essentially "I enjoyed getting date-raped," it didn't work.
** Adrienne Bailon has also been an enjoyable train wreck to watch since the Cheetah Girls group and movies ended. She hung around the Kardashians for a few years, and eventually staged a fake nude photo controversy cooked up by Bailon and a gossip blogger in an attempt to boost her career. Said controversy caused a cancellation of a Cheetah Girls performance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (and breakup of the group not long after).
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* Anime Industry: Averted for the actors who work for the New York-based 4KidsEntertainment, which produces anime series that get [[Bowdlerised]] for younger audiences. Andrew Rannells is currently starring in ''[[The Book of Mormon]]'' musical, [[Jason Griffith]] did a condom commercial, and most of the others (especially the infamous [[Dan Green]]) have done [[Hentai]] (animated pornography) at some point. Also, most of the actors that work for the company have dubbed earlier titles for older audiences, either for [[Media Blasters]] ([[Veronica Taylor]] doing ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'' comes to mind) or for [[Central Park Media]].
* Tim Allen toned down his stand-up after he noticed more and more families coming after he did ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' and once apologized to for starting out with F-bombs in one act. Now post-''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', he asks venues to make concessions for families coming to see him.
* Julie Andrews is best known for wholesome roles like [[Mary Poppins]], or Maria in ''[[The Sound of Music]]''.
* Julie Andrews did this both in and out of character in her husband Blake Edwards' film ''S.O.B.'', playing an expy of herself who appears topless in ''her'' husband's new film. She also has a reported tendency to curse up a blue streak, which still shocks people to this day that see her as her more wholesome roles of [[Mary Poppins]] and [[The Sound of Music|Maria]]. (In fact, ''S.O.B.'' is partly based on her and Edwards' experience with the notable 1970 flop ''Darling Lili'', in which she attempted to break out of her goody-goody image by playing a [[Mata Hari]] [[Expy]]).▼
** ''[[Victor Victoria]]'' pretty much turns her into a [[Drag King]], which was mildly controversial at the time.
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* [[Ingrid Bergman]], anyone? She first tried to get out of her goody-two-shoes image with ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', but it didn't work. Later on, she destroyed the image quite accidentally by leaving her husband for director Roberto Rosselini. The backlash was ''massive''. She was even denounced on the floor of the US Senate. How many victims of this trope can say that?
* The press had a frenzied field day when Elizabeth Berkley, formerly well-known for playing a straight-laced, [[Soapbox Sadie|vocally feminist]] high schooler on ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'', played a nude, bisexual showgirl in, well, ''[[Showgirls]]''. The flop of that [[Star-Derailing Role|killed her career]], though that probably had more to do with [[So Bad It's Good|the quality of the film itself]] than her playing that sort of role.
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* There was some controversy when Keisha Castle-Hughes, who played Mary in ''[[The Nativity Story]]'', got pregnant while unmarried and 16-years old. Although many Christian groups did praise her for going through with the pregnancy and raising the child.
* The [[Trope Codifier|single most famous example]] is Marilyn Chambers. As a young model, her picture graced boxes of Ivory Snow detergent across the United States. When she became one of porn's most famous stars, Ivory Snow got a very quick repackaging. Also, contrary to popular legend, Marilyn Chambers was not the baby, but the young mother holding the baby.
* One year after the second ''[[Home Alone]]'' film came out, Macaulay Culkin was seen starring in the R-rated film ''[[The Good Son]]'' where he plays [[Creepy Child|a 10 year old psychopath]]. Among the things Culkin's character does are killing a dog with a homemade nailgun, causing a highway crash by dropping a dummy off a bridge, attempting to kill his mother, and as it's later found out, {{spoiler|murdering his younger brother by drowning him in the bathtub.}} [[Roger Ebert]]'s review can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20101223204527/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
** ...and yet, he still was caught in the trope when, a ''full decade later'', he played Michael Alig, the controversial founder of Club Kids, in ''Party Monster''.
** To further add fuel to the fire, Spanish dubs of ''The Good Son'' gave it the title ''El Ángel Malvado'' (The Evil Angel), as a direct allusion to Culkin's earlier ''Home Alone'' films, known over there as ''Mi Pobre Angelito'' (''My Poor Little Angel''), just in case people didn't get it was Macaulay Culkin playing this trope.
* [[Dakota Fanning]] getting raped in ''[[Hounddog]]'' caused controversy until the critics came out of the theater stating they were [[Narm|laughing at that part]], and the overall effect was pretty minimal.
** She might have had more luck playing [[Joan Jett]]'s former bandmate Cherie Currie in ''[[The Runaways]]''. However, this movie didn't have a chance to cause much controversy on account of getting [[Screwed by the Network|screwed by the studio]].
** Right now{{when}}, she has several projects (''Mississippi Wild'', ''Now is Good'', ''Very Good Girls'') where the character she plays ends up losing her virginity.
** Interestingly, [[Dakota Fanning]] was in a ''[[CSI]]'' episode from circa 2000 ("Blood Drops") where it turns out her murdered father {{spoiler|sexually abused her. Oh, and her older sister who also survived is actually her biological mother. It's kinda sordid.}}
* [[Annette Funicello]] maintained this image for most of her career, though Walt Disney himself tried to keep her from wearing bikinis in her ''Beach'' movies. She only stuck to this in the first, where she still wore a revealing suit, and later on she wore bikinis anyway.
** That's because she was still under contract to Disney when she was loaned out to AIP for the first beach party movie, but she wasn't for the rest of them. And anyway, she wore a bikini (albeit a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan10983/4529505906/ demure] one) in ''Beach Party'', so I have no idea why this rumor still persists.
** Annette Funicello even told the clearly ''incorrect'' version in her [https://web.archive.org/web/20140103012357/http://www.beachpartymoviemusic.com/themythofthehiddennavel.html autobiography.]
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** Heather Menzies (aka Louisa von Trapp) appeared naked in ''[[Playboy]]'''s August 1973 issue and did nude scenes in a couple of B-Movies.
* [[Alyson Hannigan]], sweet little Willow Rosenberg from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', managed to avoid this when she took on the role of kinky, foul-mouthed Michelle in ''[[American Pie]]''. Perhaps the fact that Willow herself was allowed to grow up (and come out of the closet) may have had something to do with that.
** Or the fact that ''Buffy'' was never really aimed at the "
** Michelle is also a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] of this trope [[Played for Laughs]]. Throughout the movie, Jim, and, presumably, the audience, are meant to think of Michelle as
* Melissa Joan Hart of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' sent the folks at [[Archie Comics]] (who are infamously protective of their "wholesome" brand image) into a frenzy when she appeared in lingerie in an issue of ''Maxim''.
** This is a particularly interesting example. ''Maxim''{{'}}s target audience was not the same target audience for ''Sabrina'', but was about the right age to have been the target audience for ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]''. Many readers loved the issue because they got to ogle Clarissa, and at the same time many disliked her shoot because they couldn't stop seeing her as the protagonist of a pre- and early-teen show on Nickelodeon.
*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Amusingly enough]], there was an episode of ''Clarissa'' that centered on her accidentally stealing a bustier and then attempting to return it without anybody finding out. And it was called "bustier" and even '''shown''' on camera, and yes, [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|this was on Nickelodeon in the 1990s]].
* Possibly the most dreadful example of all, ''[[Family Affair]]'': actress Anissa Jones was contractually obligated to make promotional appearances with her breasts bound, her hair in [[Girlish Pigtails|childish pigtails]], and clutching the Mrs. Beasley doll [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|even as she grew into her teens]]. This is often cited as a major factor in her eventual death by drug overdose.
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** Apparently the [[Nostalgia Filter]] is stronger than this trope, as she made a one-shot return to the [[Whoniverse]] in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story "[[The Sarah Jane Adventures/Recap/S4/E05 E6 Death of the Doctor|Death of the Doctor]]". This may have been helped by the fact that it's been ''33 years'' since the photoshoot.
* Hayley Mills, appeared in the 1966 film ''The Family Way'', which featured a brief shot of her bare behind and caused a scandal. She went on to play a young woman menaced by a psychopathic stalker in 1968's ''Twisted Nerve'', and not long after married a man 33 years her senior. She has discussed how she railed against the strictures of her Disney contract, which forbade her smoking or drinking in public, among other horrors.
* [[Taylor Momsen]] is starting to get this after adopting a much racier public image, which she puts down to firing her stylist. She has publicly stated that she doesn't want to be compared to squeaky-clean Disney stars, and "doesn't fucking care" about being a [[Girls Need Role Models|good role model]] for young girls. She's best known for ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' but began her career as a child actor, most prominently as Cindy Lou Who in ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''.
* This still{{when}} dogs the [[Full House|Olsen twins]], even as real-life scandals hone in on them.
* This trope dates back to the [[Silent Age of Hollywood|silent days]], at least. Mary Pickford ("America's Sweetheart"), one of the biggest stars of the early cinema, was known for her [[The Ingenue|ingenue]] roles and her long, flowing ringlets. After she cut off her curls and played an adult role—at the age of ''37''—in ''Coquette'', she lost her popularity (despite winning an [[Academy Award]]), and retired from films shortly thereafter.
* [[Billie Piper]] got some flak for posing in ''Arena'' just before her debut as Rose Tyler in ''[[Doctor Who]]''. She later had to specifically warn her young fans from that show that it would not be a good idea for them to watch ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl''.
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*** It's ''[[Butt Monkey|Ron]]'', [[Double Standard|nobody cares]].
** Harry Melling, who plays Dudley Dursley in the films, has lost a huge amount of weight over the years (to the point of having to wear a fat suit for the final movie) and is barely recognizable from his younger self. He's publicly stated he is happy about this so he can avoid Contractual Purity in his adult career as an actor.
** Radcliffe has managed to avert this in other ways: around the release of the final ''Potter'' movie, tabloids started reporting that he liked his liquor a tad too much. However, at
* It was fair enough that [[Pee-wee Herman|Paul Reubens]] got arrested for masturbating in an adult theater. When he was later arrested for having pornography in his house (not child pornography, as rumored), comedian Wanda Sykes remarked, "Just where is Pee-Wee allowed to masturbate?"
** [[Misaimed Fandom|Oddly enough]], the character of "Pee-Wee Herman" was originally an [[Affectionate Parody]] of '50's [[Subverted Kids Show|kiddie-show hosts]] created for a Groundlings comedy sketch. It was filled with [[Double Entendre|double entendres]] and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|subliminal adult humor]]. The character was [[Poe's Law|mistaken for a kids' entertainer]] as he became successful and his act got [[Lighter and Softer|more family-friendly]], while Paul Reubens' personal life was taken over by the character.
* [[Molly Ringwald]] appeared nude in the film ''[[Malicious]]'', going against her "sweet teenage girl" image. However, the film wasn't really memorable, and she hadn't been a teenager for over a decade at that point, so the ripples were minor. Before that, [[David Lynch]] offered her the role in ''[[Blue Velvet]]'' that eventually went to [[Laura Dern]], but her parents refused to let her do it, worried that it would ruin her "sweet teenage girl" image.
* Similar to the Kathleen Turner example below, [[Meg Ryan]] played a number of sexy and borderline-dark characters early in her career, like Donna Caldwell in ''[[The Presidio]]'', but has since become known almost solely for her cute and perky roles in romantic comedies—to the extent that there is considerable audience backlash whenever she tries to return to her dramatic roots. (''City of Angels'', anyone?)
** I'll see your ''City of Angels'' and raise you ''In The Cut''.
* Though not beginning as a child, Bob Saget had this happen to him over a sixteen-year stretch divided between ''[[Full House]]'' and ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]''. He attributes his current profanity-overflowing, exceptionally dirty and rather mean-spirited standup routine in part to this, claiming, "That show gave me [[Tourette's Shitcock Syndrome|Tourette's]]." In actuality, he was an exceptionally dirty comic, even before ''Full House''. At his roast, Jeff Garlin in the character of one of the producers of ''Full House'' mentioned an incredibly tasteless joke that Bob told that warmed the producer up to him. People who knew him in college also claimed he did dirty humour, even back then. While he may attribute it to his family shows, his dirty persona may have deeper roots than he lets on. Unlike many cases here, Sagat actually enjoys the stigma that follows him, just for the shock that appears on people's faces in the audience, who didn't know better.
* Likewise, Saget's ''[[Full House]]'' co-star, John Stamos, was best know for his role on the show as Uncle Jesse. He grew tired of being in family friendly TV shows and movies. So he decided to shed this image by auditioning for the most raunchiest part he could: the [[Made for TV Movie]] ''Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story'' in which he portrays Nick Pagan, a seemingly nice man who is actual a serial killer and later tries to burn his five year old son to death in the bath tub.
** After his tenure on ''[[ER]]'', however, most of his family-friendly stigma is gone. Since then, he's been in a few commercials and has done a few episodes of ''[[Law
* German-Austrian actress Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, aka [[wikipedia:Romy Schneider|Romy Schneider]], had her career and her private life damaged by playing [[Rebellious Princess|Rebellious Empress]] "Sissi" in three blockbuster movies.
* A big furor was kicked up when [[Britney Spears]]' sister Jamie-Lynn got pregnant at age 16. She was the star of [[Nickelodeon]]'s hit [[Kid Com]] ''[[Zoey 101]]''. It is widely believed that the scandal was responsible for the show [[Cut Short|not getting a fifth season]].
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* H.B. Warner and Dorothy Cumming, who played Jesus and the Virgin Mary in the 1927 silent film ''The King Of Kings'', were forced by director [[Cecil B. DeMille]] to sign agreements stating that they wouldn't take any unsavory film roles during a five year period, in order to protect their "holy" screen images. In addition, DeMille also forbade them from [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|attending ball games, playing cards, going to night clubs, swimming, and riding in convertibles]] during filming.
** During filming, DeMille allegedly paid an anonymous woman to leave the country, as she was trying to blackmail Warner over some unknown scandal.
=== Animators ===
* R. Crumb, one of America's edgiest, most perverted cartoonists, said that drawing cute things became a "curse" that he could never completely shake, not in terms of his audience but as something that has pervaded his own personal artistic style. Considering the spectacular depth and intensity of Crumb's perversity, this revelation was shocking in and of itself and pretty much confirms the truth of this trope.
=== Athletes ===
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** Albert Pujols was recently the victim of this trope when he signed with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for a 10-year, $250 million contract. Fans had essentially determined that Albert was Stan's successor (and in a lot of ways he is/was: both are/were family men, philanthropists, etc.), and since Stan never left St. Louis, Albert is obviously the worst traitor in the history of traitors ever for doing so. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Some Cardinals fans burned their Pujols jerseys]] and others (mostly older fans) turned the whole thing into a morality play and immediately started going on about Stan and the good ol' days. A few people took the time to understand why the whole things actually happened, though.
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* Michael Gallagher, full stop. During the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote for [[Marvel Comics]], often contributing to squeaky-clean titles such as the comic versions of [[ALF]] and [[Care Bears]] before getting more creative (though still clean) with ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]''. He then moved to Archie and set the tone for the early ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' with many of the same tricks he used on his Marvel work: [[No Fourth Wall]], [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s and stock parodies. Come the mid-1990s, he moved over to ''[[Mad]]'', where he now comes up with twisted, grotesque gags such as [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad345backprintid.jpg this].
=== Musicians ===
* Pop stars in particular are held to this on account of their fanbases typically being largely comprised of teen and tween girls.
** The Japanese and Korean industries even more so, especially for female singers who are railroaded into an image that is simultaneously clean cut and uncomfortably sexualized to pander to [[Otaku]] and give a fantasy of availability. Many of these artists are even contractually obligated to not have romantic relationships as long as they are employed by their agency. There have been scandals in both countries about [[Idol Singer|Idols]] being outright fired (and, in a memorable Japanese case, forced to
* [[The Beatles]] had something of a (relatively) clean-cut, madcap, teen-friendly "mop-top" image, and were a youthful breath of fresh air in America following the JFK assassination. They were advised to stay away from politics and kept much of the rougher aspects of their personalities and humor (and [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll|burgeoning marijuana use]]) under wraps. Then came John's "[[Blasphemous Boast|more popular]] [[Bigger Than Jesus|than Jesus]]" misquote, and later Paul's admission in the British press of trying LSD. Though it took a toll on their "[[Idol Singer|Beatlemania]]" image, [[The Sixties|the changing times]], refusal to tour and their [[New Age Retro Hippie|psychedelic]], [[Important Haircut|facial hair-wearing]] period would soon follow with ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. They would be [[Growing the Beard]] in [[Incredibly Lame Pun|more ways than one]]. By the late '60s, the group would develop a [[Cerebus Syndrome|more serious image]] for the rest of their careers.
** Not true in their own country. From the moment they emerged into the public consciousness they were seen in the media as [[Moral Guardians|corrupting the morals of British youth]] With their (comparatively) long hair and [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky image]] they were quite unlike the clean-cut would-be home-made Elvis clones that came before like [[Cliff Richard]], [[Tommy Steele]], [[Marty Wilde]] or [[Billy Fury]], whom one could comfortably take home to tea with one's mother despite those rebellious stage names. By the time the Beatles had hit America The [[Rolling Stones]] (and, heaven forfend, the [[Pretty Things]]) had emerged and one's mother could then accept the Beatles as cuddly.
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* [[Barack Obama]] might not have been elected US President in 2008 without this trope, as he might not have been elected to the US Senate in 2004. Obama's opponent for the seat, Republican Jack Ryan ([[Name's the Same|no, not]] [[Tom Clancy|that one]]), was ahead of him in the polls, until a sex scandal involving his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan, went public after their previously sealed divorce records were opened. Unlike usual political sex scandals, it wasn't an extramarital affair or an illegitimate child but one that strictly applies this trope. Ryan had taken his wife to a bondage club several years prior and asked her to perform sex acts with him out in the open. Despite Ryan's denial and Obama asking the Democrats not to inject the issue into the campaign, the backlash forced Ryan to drop out of the race. His replacement Alan Keyes would go on to lose to Obama.
* Anthony [[Punny Name|Weiner]], US Congressman, Democrat for New York, from 1999-2011, had his political career shot down after he posted a link to a sexually suggestive photo of himself on his [[Twitter]] account. He first denied that he had posted it but later admitted that he had and that he had exchanged sexual pics and messages with at least six other women. Weiner initially [[The Determinator|refused to resign despite enormous pressure]] from his fellow Democrats and President [[Barack Obama]] to do so. However, after a sexually explicit photo was leaked he did so.
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** There was a story about a teacher who was fired for having pictures of her drinking wine on Facebook. Another, more saddening story was about a woman where either her insurance or disability payments were cut off because she had depression, but had pictures posted of her having fun on Facebook.
** Something similar happened to a Florida teacher who was arrested for drinking with her husband in a bar where sexual shenanigans were going on in the back. The police dropped the charges. The school board didn't.
** A bill in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721140648/http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/13/423412/arizona-bill-would-likely-prohibit-teachers-and-professors-from-teaching-any-book-with-profanity/ Arizona state legislature], introduced in early 2012, would make it illegal for teachers to “engage in speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the Federal Communications Commission concerning obscenity, indecency and profanity if that speech or conduct were broadcast on television or radio.” In essence, if passed, every teacher in Arizona would have ''literal'' Contractual Purity.
** In Britain at one time quite a few schools reached a tacit agreement with their older students whereby one designated pub was out of bounds to students and another was out of bounds to teachers. The legal drinking age in Britain is 18 so many older students could do so within the law, but it was also tacitly acknowledged that quite a bit of under-age drinking amongst their classmates was going to go on.
* A second grade teacher who took a sick day, appeared on Howard Stern's show in a bikini, and returned to find herself out of a job due to violating a school morality code. [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0627081jarry1.html She ended up suing the school district.]
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* This is subject to [[Values Dissonance]]. Take Argentina, where they have former nude models or actresses hosting children shows, like [https://web.archive.org/web/20131222035849/http://www.yosoypanam.net/ Laura Franco (AKA Panam)], and they don't mind. It helps attracting more viewers, like the fathers that watch the show with their children for the [[Parent Service]].
* There are some notable aversions, where the actor or actress's first role is in a decidedly non-kid friendly production, e.g. [[Jennifer Connelly]], who made her screen debut at thirteen in [[Dario Argento]]'s ''[[Phenomena (film)|Phenomena]]'' making her roles in movies such as ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]'' not that drastic a change; or [[Heather Matarazzo]], who made ''her'' debut at thirteen in the ultra-dark cult classic ''[[Welcome to The Dollhouse]]'', making her rather, ahem, [[Gorn|disturbing]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|demise]] in ''[[Hostel]] Part II'' not quite as shocking. Still pretty messed up, though.
** [[Kirsten Dunst]] is another notable aversion who made her breakout role as a child vampire in the ''distinctly'' family-unfriendly ''[[Interview With a Vampire]]'' at the age of 12. She broke out of the "cute fluffy blonde" image as Lux in ''[[The Virgin Suicides]]'' (she was 16 during filming) after doing some [[Little Women|children's movies]] and the odd [[Genre Savvy]] [[Bring It On|teen flick]]. In her twenties, she admitted to occasionally smoking weed and drinking too much. This doesn't seem to have caused much outrage except among a few fringe loonies who can't distinguish Dunst from [[Spider-Man|Mary Jane Watson]].
** [[Natalie Portman]] has been playing non-family-friendly roles for most of her career, but because of her stint in ''[[Star Wars]]'', her general avoidance of partying, and her Harvard degree, she is seen as a good role model for young girls. She then parodied this in the ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch "Natalie's Rap", in which she reveals through rap that she drinks, does drugs, has promiscuous sex, enjoys killing and beating people ([[Kick the Dog|and dogs]]) for fun, and has a general disdain for her younger fans.
* Lest you think this is purely an [[Eagle Land|American]] trope, try following any teen-idol in Japan (even those [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|grown into their twenties]]!) and you'll see this in spades. If a girl kisses, goes on a date, or heaven forbid, admits to having sex, she is torn apart by [[Fan Dumb|rabid fans]] who are apparently so lonely and hopeless, they can only imagine younger girls as a [[Moe|pristine virginal fantasy]]. Anything that shatters that illusion brings on their vicious ire. Just ask [[Aya Hirano]], who recently got into a bit of trouble just because she was wearing a ring in a picture. Yeah, you think America's nutbar conservative [[Moral Guardians]] are bad, they're still [[Years Too Early|way behind]] hardcore Japanese [[Otaku]].
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* An interesting case in ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. White freaks at the idea of one member of her star Tepig couple evolving, thinking that they would no longer be as marketable if it happens. As such, she ''forces'' Tep to stop evolving by ''shaking'' him real hard.
* In the episode "Fallen Angel Rina" of the [[Hentai]] series ''[[Cool Devices]]'' Rina, a [[Rose-Haired Girl|pink-haired]] [[Idol Singer]] is lauded for her [[Yamato Nadeshiko|sweet, demure]] [[Girl Next Door]] [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]...and her manager basically starts pimping her until she reaches the point where {{spoiler|she masturbates on stage with the microphone at a concert.}}
* In ''[[AKB49: Ren'ai
=== Comics ===▼
* In ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'', Pastis' licensable character Bippy lost his licensable status when Rat got him drunk.▼
=== Fan Works ===
* Happens in ''[[The Pokémon Squad]]''. After ''KaBlam!'' was cancelled, June (who was fourteen at the time ) was so upset, that she started smoking and drinking. At her age of twenty-five in the fanfic series, she is a full-blown alcoholic, smokes constantly, and in the episode "The Future is Evil", she starts pole-dancing at nightclubs.▼
** As for Henry, he tries not to get himself into trouble. He just has the occasional drink at a party.▼
** Doug Funnie, on the other hand, subverts this. While he's still as sweet as sweet can be (and even moreso), he's also an alcoholic, due to various problems in his life (which usually have to do with Barney, Roger never leaving him alone, the stress of being owned by two companies, and his job at McDonald's which is dressing up as children's characters for birthday parties)▼
** The main six from ''Recess'' caused a scandalous incident when they went to a
=== Film ===
* A large amount of ''[[Death to Smoochy]]'' dealt with hosts of children shows living less-than-exemplary lives off-screen.
* In ''[[Tootsie]]'', Dustin Hoffman's character accepts a female [[A Worldwide Punomenon|TV]] acting rôle because there's no other available work – only to start frantically looking for a "morals clause" that could be used as a way out of the contract later.
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* There's a short story in which a jaded ex-child-star's pregnancy must be accounted for without destroying her Contractual Purity, so her studio arranges a hasty marriage to an actor whose manly public image also needs shoring up. (The groom is secretly into gay child porn, though he's never acted on his urges.) For added publicity, they're cast in a live-broadcast production of a play about the search for a unicorn. At the climax of the show, right when the surgically-crafted goat "unicorn" is supposed to walk up to the actress in a [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] finale, the animal suddenly forgets its training, goes into a trance, and—live on global television—lays its head in the mother-to-be's ''[[Virgin Power|husband's]]'' lap.
* In W.E.B Griffin's ''Men At War'' series, there is Monica Carlisle, an actress who specializes in playing sweet young ingenues and mother of major character Eric Fulton. The studio that employs her goes to considerable effort to make her public think she really is like that, including things like covering up the fact that she has a son in his twenties (Who is only legitimate because she quietly married the father ''after'' she got pregnant to maintain her public image, and divorced him a year later), who would have been born when she was seven if one believes the birth date listed in her studio-produced biography. She's also [[The Prima Donna]], who is despised by many of the lesser studio people who have to interact with her on a regular basis.
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* An interesting example happened in the 12th season of the Spanish series ''[[Cuentame Como Paso]]''. Back in the first season, six-year-old Ricardo Gomez was cast as 8-year-old Carlitos, and since the series has been on air for over 10 years, the now 16-year-old actor is playing an 18-year-old character who had to become sexually active as it was necessary for the series to reflect the Spanish "destape" age. A few people in Spain thought it scandalous when Carlitos and his girlfriend had sex. The scene was filmed overhead, so the nudity was minimal, but some people admitted to being uncomfortable watching the children they had seen grow up on TV having sex. However, the controversy in Spain was still relatively small compared to what one can imagine would have been the [[Moral Guardians]] outrage if something like this had happened in the US.
* In the British drama, ''Drop Dead Gorgeous'', a high school student is employed by a modelling agency, only to cause uproar when scantily clad photos of her are plastered about town.
=== Music ===
* "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band. The speaker fondly remembers a young [[Blue Eyes|blue-eyed]], [[Sweater Girl|sweater-clad girl]] from school that he had a crush on way back when, and sees her again as an adult later... in a porn magazine. He is initially shocked as it clashed with her squeaky-clean image, but eventually, he not only accepts it, but [[My Girl Is a Slut|embraces it.]]
▲=== Newspaper Comics ===
▲* In ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'', Pastis' licensable character Bippy lost his licensable status when Rat got him drunk.
=== Theatre ===
* In [[Ayn Rand]]'s unproduced play ''Think Twice'', a stage actress known for playing noble, innocent, [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]] characters is desperate to play in a "cheap, vulgar commercial" comedy the part of a conniving social climber who drinks, swears and sleeps around. She declares she's done enough saccharine simpering, her producer be damned.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Paz in ''[[Peace Walker]]'' is something of a parody of this treatment towards Japanese pop idols. She has [[Hair of Gold]], is a [[Pollyanna]] and is voiced (in the Japanese version) by a Japanese pop star, who even contributes an [[Image Song]] for her for the soundtrack. But Paz herself is a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]], who is a lot older than she says she is and hates her false identity more than anything else on Earth. The whole game is themed somewhat around singing and the pop industry, making it likely this is a metaphor. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?|Possibly?]]
=== Web Comics ===
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* When [[Friendly Hostility|Safari Sam]] was outed, ''all hell broke loose'', beginning the comic's endgame.
* The major characters of ''[[Love Me Nice]]'' all need to maintain squeaky clean public personas to protect the image of the popular childrens' show they work for, to the point where one of them getting a boob job is cause for a minor crisis because it might make her look too mature and sexual for the part she plays on the show.
▲=== Web Original ===
▲* Happens in ''[[The Pokémon Squad]]''. After ''KaBlam!'' was cancelled, June (who was fourteen at the time ) was so upset, that she started smoking and drinking. At her age of twenty-five in the fanfic series, she is a full-blown alcoholic, smokes constantly, and in the episode "The Future is Evil", she starts pole-dancing at nightclubs.
▲** As for Henry, he tries not to get himself into trouble. He just has the occasional drink at a party.
▲** Doug Funnie, on the other hand, subverts this. While he's still as sweet as sweet can be (and even moreso), he's also an alcoholic, due to various problems in his life (which usually have to do with Barney, Roger never leaving him alone, the stress of being owned by two companies, and his job at McDonald's which is dressing up as children's characters for birthday parties)
▲** The main six from ''Recess'' caused a scandalous incident when they went to a resturaunt and ordered alcoholic beverages (and they were able to get them because T.J. explained to the waiter at the resturaunt that they were nine in 1997 so they were born in 1988 and could legally drink; however, those characters in the fanfic are under [[Comic Book Time]] and are still nine), and a little kid found them, noticed that they're the ones he saw on [[Disney XD]], and told his mom as they watched them drunkly sing the Texas song.
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