The way fans treat their celebrity heroes can get a little strange at times. Yet even when we're all acting relatively sane around the biggest stars in the world, the amount of attention they get must be an exhausting and often bewildering experience. It's not too surprising when some beloved celebs start to go off the rails given what it's like to be in the limelight for so long.
Adults who forged their celebrity status through their own actions (for the most part) knew what they were getting into. However, children don't have this luxury. Some, like
, are famous all around the world from a young age, while others have parents so famous that they become celebrities the minute they are born.
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It was only last month that
, daughter of Jada Pinkett-Smith and
, opened up about her own struggles growing up like this. "Growing up and trying to figure out your life… while people feel like they have some sort of entitlement to know what’s going on, is absolutely, excruciatingly terrible," she said, "and the only way to get over it, is to go into it."
It must be strange to have someone as well-known to the public as Will Smith for a father, but out-ranking that is being the child of someone like
, who himself was in the public eye for his entire life.
The singer, who passed away in 2009, had three children, but they all have made different decisions on how much they show themselves to the public.
and her brother
both have public social media accounts, but their youngest sibling doesn't.
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Prince Michael II, who is known by the nickname 'Blanket', has managed to stay out of the public eye in recent years, but now we have glimpsed what he looks like now, at the age of 15.
A rare photo of all three Jackson children together was posted on Instagram by Paris to celebrate Christmas.
The 19-year-old Paris, who is now an actress, model and activist, captioned the photo with: "happy christmas from ours to yours #brahdas".
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Blanket (Prince Michael II) is on the left, Paris is in the middle, and Prince Michael Jr, the first-born, is on the right. The boy in the middle is Omer Bhatti, a close friend of theirs since birth.
Surprisingly, Paris had to defend her reasoning for including him in the photo after some criticised his appearance with the family. Writing on Twitter, she said:
"Why is everyone losing their fucking minds over this? Do you guys seriously not remember the fact that not only have I known him since birth, we have literally called him our brother many, many, many, many times"
Blanket has only been photographed in public a few times since his father's death, and reportedly now goes by the name of 'BG' or 'Bigi'. On top of this, another photo was recently uploaded by his grandfather, Joe Jackson.
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The trio apparently still have a close bond, as Prince Jr explained in October. "She's grown so much and she's been able to really step up, " he told Today. "I don't really see myself as her older brother. We're equal partners when it comes down to it. BG is just so mature for his age. It's a pretty strong bond."
