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A form of [[Typecasting]]. See also [[Old Shame]] and [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]. May result in the actor/singer becoming [[The Krusty]]. Contrast [[So My Kids Can Watch]], which is when an "adult" actor takes on family-friendly roles, usually [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|so that their children can watch them without being exposed to violence or sex]].
Exactly ''what'' counts as "purity" varies wildly from culture to culture - see [[Values Dissonance]]. For the polar opposite of this trope see [[Controversy
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== [[Real Life]] Examples (in alphabetical order when not Disney): ==
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** A flap over a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz that included "[[Its Not Porn Its Art|art shots]]" of the then fifteen year old Cyrus topless, though covered by a blanket and facing away from the camera. First she released a statement saying she approved of the art shots, then public comment disapproved, so she decided she disapproved too.
** Just after she got over that, another photo scandal happened when someone hacked her phone and got photos of her in a shower in a wet T-shirt. And not much else.
** 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 childrens' performers.
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* 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.
* [[Deborah Kerr]] was usually typecast as the [[English Rose]] (with the exception of UK drama ''Black Narcissus'') until her appearance as depressed adulteress Karen in ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''. It's still considered one of her best roles of all time, even though she took the role only to shake up her image.
* Katy Manning got some flak for posing naked with a Dalek some time after she left ''[[
** 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 (TV)/Recap/S4 E5 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.
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* This still 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 ''[[
** She didn't get much heat from the tabloids for switching to the more risque role, however.
** Piper was also criticised in the press for being photographed partying around the time of her marriage to Chris Evans. She was then best known as a former teen pop star once touted as the British answer to Britney.
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* 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 and Order SVU]]''. One particular episode he stars in has him as a pig who exploits a multitude of women for sex in order to have copious amounts of children, and he sweet-talks them out of whatever job they may have.
* German-Austrian actress Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, aka [
* 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]].
** The outrage was somewhat justified, though, as she was only sixteen at the time.
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