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* [[Will Smith]] and Jada Pinkett-Smith have been accused of pushing their children into showbiz at too early an age. Their son [[Jaden Smith|Jaden]] is an actor (best known for [[The Karate Kid (2010 film)|the remake of ''The Karate Kid'']], which was produced by Will and Jada, and the Netflix series ''The Get Down'' and ''Neo Yokio'') who has forayed into singing, while their daughter Willow is a singer. The Smiths' claim that their children did have control over their careers was proven true in Willow's case, as she dropped the titular role in a remake of the ''[[Annie]]'' musical and had a brief retirement in her early teens because musical touring was taxing her too much and [[I Just Want to Be Normal|she wanted to experience actual normalcy for a while]].
* [[Brooke Shields]]' mother Teri was infamous for this well into her daughter's 20s. For example, when Brooke joined the [[Princeton Triangle Club]] (a musical theatre troupe) during her freshman year at [[Ivy League|Princeton University]] and earned a small part in their annual revue, Teri Shields swept in and tried to wrest control of the production from the club and its hand-picked team of professionals. The Triangle Club fought her to a standstill, but still had to cope with her attempts to direct publicity and make it appear that the production was essentially ''The Brooke Shields Show'', as well as installing armed guards in the theatre. It also says something that she wasn't bothered when Brooke appeared nude on screen for her role in ''[[Pretty Baby]]'', when Brooke was only ''twelve''
* [[Natalie Wood]], who played the above mentioned ''Gypsy''
* Deliberately averted with [[Mara Wilson]], as her parents
* Walt Disney also wanted to avoid this trope when he created ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]''. He deliberately went to cast amateur children with talent instead of professional child actors, and then went to set up a separate room for their mothers to read, knit or relax specifically to keep them off during filming.
* [[Taylor Momsen]] has [http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/12/taylor-momsen-childhood/ accused her parents] of being this. She allegedly was pushing into modeling by her mother at 7 and then she was overworked in modeling and acting gigs to burnout levels. 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]]. Momsen is now very active in her music career and doesn't seem that interested in going back into acting.
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* [[Britney Spears]]' mother Lynne pushed her and her sister Jamie Lynn to become stars. [[Break the Cutie|You know how this ended.]] Britney eventually resumed her career and got her life back together, but she remains under her father's conservatorship.
* Joe Simpson, father of [[Jessica Simpson|Jessica]] and [[Ashlee Simpson|Ashlee]]. Nick Lachey, Jessica's former husband, implied that the meddling of his father-in-law over her career and life played no small role in their eventual breakup and divorce.
* [[Michael Jackson|Joe]] [[Janet Jackson|Jackson]] really, really didn't want [[The Jackson 5ive|his kids]] to become criminals on the streets of Gary, Indiana. He probably could have found a better way to do this, however. All the Jackson children have complained about their father being openly abusive whenever they didn't perform or
** [[Michael Jackson|Michael]] was the worst victim of the trope. Due to being the youngest son he was basically deprived of a childhood and spent all of his formative years rehearsing and performing under the [[Abusive Parents|heavy hand]] of his father. This, on turn, may have been the main reason of Michael's
** It says something about Joe Jackson's controlling nature that his daughter [[Janet Jackson|Janet]] couldn't find success until she ditched him and associated with two other, less controlling producers to record a [[New Sound Album]].
* [[The Beach Boys]] suffered through years of dreadful stage-fathering. [[wikipedia:Murry Wilson|Murry Wilson]], father of Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, was a mildly successful songwriter/producer who, for their first few years, acted as manager, producer, and publisher to the group. Among other questionable practices and decisions, he allegedly whacked Brian Wilson in the head with a 2x4, causing hearing damage. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20101003032225/http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg Celebrities At Their Worst]'', a collection of stories about, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well, you know]], features a 10-minute outtake of the elder Wilson guilt-tripping his sons through a recording session for "Help Me, Rhonda".
* Mexican singer [[wikipedia:Luis Miguel|Luis Miguel]]'s father and manager, Luisito Rey (real name Luis Gallego Sanchez). Rey was a singer himself with a failed career, when he discovered the talent of his eldest son. The guy was very bent into making his precocious kid a star (which, according with Luis Miguel's biographical series in [[Netflix]], included giving him stimulants to keep him productive, forcing the boy with stay with him after Rey divorced his mother, and even making the lady to disappear under mysterious circumstances when she began to protest too much), and given how much of a [[Teen Idol]] superstar the kid was during the Eighties you can argue he succeeded... only for Luis Miguel to dump him when he got of age just to escape his incredibly controlling ways. Rey eventually succumbed to alcoholism and died of cirrhosis in 1992, a few years after his firing.
* [[w:The Shaggs|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]].
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* [[Beyoncé]]'s father, Mathew Knowles, has been pointed as the reason behind the dissolution of his daughter's previous group, [[Destiny's Child]], due to a mix of being a stage dad and having incredibly bad business sense. Beyoncé herself has had a very tenuous relationship with him
* [[Backstreet Boys|Nick]] and Aaron Carter's careers were ruined by their stage parents, who blew their earnings and settled them in profound debt. Nick managed to cut them off and bounced back with his group, but Aaron, who has a solo career and
* Endemic in the [[Classical Music]] world, where any parent who notices their children can press piano keys or play some instrument with any accuracy immediately tries to promote them as "young prodigies". It has come to the point that in many music schools some kind of practices (like making children sing opera, a genre that is taxing to even adult larynxes) are actively discouraged despite the
** If you search on the classic composers between the XVIII and XIX centuries you can find that a number of them began as young prodigies, pushed into playing and singing at an early age at their parent wishes. The most archetypal example is [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] and his sister Maria Anna touring Europe as a piano and violin duet under their (also a renowned musician) father Leonard's tutelage. In fact, the "Child Prodigy" trope is so ubiquitous that it comes as a surprise that some famous composers like Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms didn't begin to write music until their middle age (Mozart himself didn
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* [[wikipedia:Wanda Holloway|Wanda Holloway]], the woman who inspired ''[[The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom]]'' and ''[[Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story]]''. She asked her brother
* Watch any show about child pageants. All the moms and more than one dad shown there will be like this, more often than not, to ''sickening'' degrees. This is the whole point of the shows ''[[Toddlers and Tiaras]]'', ''[[Dance Moms]]'' and, more infamously, ''[[Here Comes Honey Boo Boo]]''.
** One particularly sickening example is the story of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130830102749/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/news/article_1639085.php/Plastic-Surgeon-slams-Pageant-Mom-8-year-old-getting-Botox-story-repugnant Kerry Campbell], who gave her ''eight-year-old daughter Botox injections''. When she was found out, she not only defended this practice (claiming it was never too early get your child cosmetic surgery to "get rid of the lines"), but also claimed that ''other'' pageant moms practiced this as well. The fact that the story turned out to be fake [[The Tyson Zone|did nothing to dispel it]].
** One 5-year-old girl named Carley developed an alter-ego called Darla to cope with her mom's pushing.{{verify}}
** Whenever ''[[The Soup]]'' had to cover these shows, its host Joel McHale
* George Sampson, the winner of ''[[Britain's Got Talent]]'' in 2008, should have had a very promising career after his victory in the show. Unfortunately, his career was run into the ground in less than a year, in no small part due to his obnoxious and extremely demanding mother, who was largely responsible for Simon Cowell's company ditching Sampson after they became sick of her. Sampson is making a rebound, however, as he has starred in the film ''Street Dance''.
* Rose Hovick, mother of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee and actress June Havoc. She became legendary for this trope following Gypsy's 1957 autobiography and the subsequent musical adaptation ''[[Gypsy (theatre)|Gypsy]]'' as mentioned above.
* A bizarre version of this was the infamous case of [[w:FamilyOFive|''Daddyoffive'']], a [[YouTube]] channel where the parents [[Abusive Parents|did cruel and outright abusive "pranks" on their children]] and then uploaded the videos [["Just Joking" Justification|as "
* Some people have accused Lynn Johnston, author of ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'', of a variant of this trope, in the sense that while she didn't directly exploited her children the way this trope is traditionally expected, by [[Write Who You Know|incorporating a distressingly high number of their real experiences (ranging from comical to humiliating events) in her work]] she subjected them to [[Muse Abuse]]. As a result, her children were often victims of bullying in school, and as they became older they grew apart from their mother.
* Stage parenting was believed to be the reason behind the tragic case of Peruvian model and entertainer [[w:Mónica Santa María|Mónica Santa María]]. She was pushed into modeling at 7 years old by her mother, over her father's objections, and by the time she became a teenager she was one of the most famous models of her country. In 1990, when she was 17, she became one of the hostesses of ''Nubeluz'', which soon became the biggest children's show in Latin America. She was the most popular among the hostesses, and she stayed in the show until 1994, with a brief retirement of six months in 1993. Unfortunately, she also presented symptoms of bipolar disorder and
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