Hayden Panettiere’s death has other child stars opening up

The people who understand what Hayden Panettiere went through growing up in the entertainment industry belong to a rather small club of former child stars that includes contemporaries like Hilary Duff, Alexa PenaVega, Christy Carlson Romano and Anna Paquin, all of whom this week paid tribute to the late actress followi

Christy Carlson Romano, a Disney Channel teen icon after playing Ren Stevens on “Even Stevens” and voicing the title character on “Kim Possible,” published an emotional essay on Elle’s website in the wake of Hayden Panettiere’s death. The two actors got their breakthroughs in 2000, the year both “Even Stevens” and “Rem

Christy Carlson Romano compares early fame to CTE in a new op-ed, calling for stronger protections for child actors after Hayden Panettiere's death.

"I so deeply wish this wasn’t the end for you," wrote Duff in her poignant tribute