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** When auditioning child actors for the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' movies, producer [[Chris Columbus]] interviewed the parents of all of the children being considered for roles and eliminated the children of those who came across as stage parents. He said he did that because of all the problems he had with Kit Culkin while doing the first two ''[[Home Alone]]'' movies.
* [[Judy Garland]]'s mother kept feeding her pills to keep her weight and increase her productivity. This ended up ''very'' badly.
* Dina and Michael Lohan, parents of [[Lindsay Lohan]], are exemplars of the self-serving side of this trope. Dina took Lindsay to nightclubs and let her drink when she was underage, then used her daughter's personal troubles to launch her own career in entertainment, getting herself a reality show on [[E!]]
** [[Robot Chicken|"Could you make the check out to cash? It's my nickname for her..."]]
* In a recent{{when}} blog on ''[[SMBC Theater]]'', JP mentioned that, while he and some others were talking about the show in a diner, a 10-year-old girl came over and told them that her mother said to tell them she's an actress. If you don't get why he didn't like that, let me put it into perspective: A woman had told her 10-year-old child to introduce herself to a group of men neither one of them were familiar with, just so the girl might get an acting position.
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* The Shaggs, a band comprised of three sisters, came into existence due to a prophecy their father believed that they would form a popular music group. As soon as they were old enough, he pulled them out of school and bought them instruments and lessons, and forced them into gigs and the studio from 1968 until his death in 1975. Despite his efforts, the band would go down in history as ''legendarily'' [[So Bad It's Good]].
* [[Taylor Momsen]] has [http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/12/taylor-momsen-childhood/ accused her parents] of being this. This may explain her transformation from a [[Gossip Girl|teen soap]] star to a raunchy, scantily-clad rock frontwoman [[Jail Bait|before she turned 18]].
* Pop girl group Destinee & Paris' mother is like this. The main reason they became Destinee & Paris was that their mother suffocated the previous members of their rock band (Ariel and then Sarah, who lasted less than half a year as the Clique Girlz) and they were forced into it after all the bad publicity. (Ariel went on to name her next band NMD—No More Drama—as a [[Take That]].) When the two were featured on the [[E!]]
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