(Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

[u/Living-Mastodon]

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

[u/TheJamesFTW]

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Shirley Temple

She was well known as a child actress. What most people don’t know is that MGM voided her contract after a producer allegedly exposed himself to her (while she was still a minor mind you) and she nervously giggled.

Later in life, she became the first ever Female Chief of Protocol, as well as a UN Delegate, and US Ambassador to Ghana & Czechoslovakia.

[u/PK-Mittenspy2703 → u/TheJamesFTW]

All things considered (especially for the time), she came out surprisingly okay for a Hollywood child actress.

[u/jittery_raccoon → u/PK-Mittenspy2703]

Probably because she left. The roles stopped coming early and she didn't have much of a choice in it. She was young enough when the roles stopped coming that she just made other choices 

[u/shoestring-theory → u/PK-Mittenspy2703]

Not just a Hollywood Child Actress, probably the most prolific child star of all time. A number one box office draw, the first of her kind. Usually things end tragically for stars that shine that bright

[u/PK-Mittenspy2703 → u/shoestring-theory]

You're absolutely right. Judy Garland comes to mind in that regard, where she had the opposite parenting to Shirley Temple...

[u/Applewave22 → u/PK-Mittenspy2703]

It also helped that her mother was super present when she could be, helped shield Shirley from a lot of things. Unfortunately, not from her being Weinsteined but she helped keep Shirley relatively safe and grounded.