Amanda Bynes is the child star who got his breakthrough in the movie All that. At the time, Amanda was 10 years old. Nickelodeon star Amanda Bynes followed up with hits like The Amanda Show, What I Like About You, Hairspray and She’s the Man.
Amanda Bynes in 2001. Image source: Stella Pictures
Amanda Bynes in 2009. Image source: Stella Pictures
Amanda Bynes in 2009. Image source: AP Photo/Dan Steinberg/TT Bild
But in 2010, something happened to Amanda, who was then 24 years old. Career stalled, and it emerged that Amanda Bynes struggled with mental illness and drug problems. Amanda Bynes suffers from both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Amanda Bynes was caught speeding in 2012. Image source: Stella Pictures. What happened to Amanda Bynes?
In 2013, it all culminated in Amanda pouring gasoline on her puppy, and on a neighbor’s driveway. She lit it. Amanda ended up in compulsory psychiatric care, and that year Amanda’s mother became her guardian.
Nine years later, her mother’s guardianship ended, and Amanda Bynes regained control of her life and finances.
– Amanda wishes to terminate the guardianship. She believes her condition has improved and it is no longer necessary for her to be protected by the court, her lawyer said David A. Esquibias in a comment to the American magazine People.
Amanda Bynes in New York in 2014. She was walking around talking to herself, reported the Daily Mail and E! On-line. Image source: Stella Pictures.
A year after the mother’s guardianship ended, there were reports in the American media that Amanda Bynes was walking around naked in Los Angeles. She then lived on the street, something like, among other things Page Six and TMZ then wrote about.
Amanda Bynes’ ex-fiancé Paul Michael then told that Amanda had stopped taking her anti-psychotic medication.
– She has stopped her medication. She is wild, he told Page Six magazine.
That’s why Amanda Bynes is not in Quiet on set
Just like many American child stars, Amanda Byne’s life has been marred by several tough setbacks and abuse.
In the new documentary series Quiet on set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, the dark side of the children’s channel Nickelodeon is portrayed.
In the series, there is information about child actors who have been sexually abused, and how several of the channel’s employees were convicted of sex crimes. One of the employees was, among other things, a convicted pedophile who during his time on the channel tried to groom children, something that was reported by Today.
Several of the people accused in the documentary have worked with productions where Amanda Bynes was the star – but Amanda herself has not wanted to participate in Quiet on set. It’s something that puzzled several viewers.
So why wasn’t Amanda Bynes in Quiet on set? Well, according to sources TMZ so Amanda simply did not share the same experiences as the other child stars, and neither Amanda nor her family is said to have been trampled, sexually assaulted or harassed.
Amanda’s parents are said to have seen the documentary series and become very taken, saddened and disgusted by the accusations leveled against several people who held top positions at the channel during this time.
Nickelodeon has in a statement regretted the trauma that one of the sexually exploited child stars was forced to endure. They further wrote that over the years they have added several different protective measures.
Amanda Bynes in 2003. Image source: Stella Pictures.Amanda Bynes today – shows off the new look
On Instagram, Amanda Bynes has nearly half a million followers, but she has removed all of her photos from the regular feed.
Instead, she is only active on Story, and she also offers her followers some highlights. It is there that she now reveals that she has undergone a major beauty change.
Since the breakthrough, Amanda Bynes has changed her style radically. She has a tattoo of a heart on her face, dyed both her hair and eyebrows, and experimented a bit with fillers.
Amanda Bynes has been blonde with blue eyebrows. Image source: Instagram/Amanda BynesAmanda Bynes now has darker hair and brows. Image source: Instagram/Amanda BynesAmanda Bynes has removed her fillers, she tells about on Instagram. Image source: Instagram/Amanda Bynes
But in a new clip on her Instagram, Amanda Bynes now reveals that she has removed lip fillers.
There is an agent that dissolves the filler, and that is what Amanda has now used. She is satisfied with the result.
“My lips were full before. Now they’re back to a cute size,” she captions the clip.