Nevertheless, some former child stars continue to enjoy a near-unfathomablylavish lifestyle.
One of those former child stars is 1980s teen movie legend Molly Ringwald.
The fifty-something ginger has been working in showbiz since early childhood, but continues to rack up impressive credits.
At the same time, she maintains an essential relatability.
Also, Ringwald is a musician and published author.
With regard to the former, Ringwald posts frequently and prolifically toInstagram.
By 1979, she’d landed a recurring role as Molly Parker on television’s “Diff’rent Strokes.”
But for the second season, producers decided to put more focus on fewer characters.
Initially, Ringwald’s character was one of the characters they planned on keeping.
Then they changed their minds.
“It was kind of hard as a 12-year-old girl,” Ringwald confessed to EW.
But it was all just too much drama for Ringwald at that point in her life.
At 13, her performance was skilled enough to earn her a Golden Globe nomination.
She also came off as rather wise beyond her years in the aforementioned interview with Chicago Tribune.
Accordingly, what Molly Ringwald did next must have seemed perplexing to some.
She moved to Paris, according to herwebsite, which describes her as a lifelong Francophile.
By 1997, Ringwald was back the U.S. full time (via her website).
Not quite a memoir, it’s characterized byGoodreadsas more of a “girlfriend’s guide to life.”
At the time, however, Ringwald had already had quite a bit of personal history.
She married current husband Panio Gianopoulos in 2007, with whom she has three daughters (viaBiography).
By 2002, the relationship had deteriorated, and Ringwald filed for divorce, according toNew York Magazine.
The couple has three children together.
The photo above shows Ringwald and Gianopoulos and their three kids in 2015, viaInstagram.
The oldest, Mathilda Ereni Gianopoulos, was born in 2003.
The couple’s younger children are twins, Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos Gianopoulos, born in 2009.
It would appear that Adele may also enjoy basking in the limelight, per SheKnows.
Not much is known about Roman, although Ringwald posts photos of him viaInstagram.
In any event, many seemed interested in hearing what she had to say.
The first instance took place when Ringwald was 13, and another incident occurred in 1992.
She goes onto say that when she told her agent, he made light of it.
“I fired him and moved to Paris not long after,” Ringwald wrote.
It started streaming on Netflix on September 21, 2022, according toForbes.
Ringwald plays Shari Dahmer, Jeffrey Dahmer’s stepmother, and Ringwald essentially disappears into the character.
According to CNET, she’s “barely recognizable.”
And that’s something that is generally said admiringly of acting performances.
Murphy cast former teen star Molly Ringwald to play serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s stepmother, Shari Dahmer.
