Tragic Details About The Olsen Twins

May 23 2020

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The Olsen twins walked away from Hollywood to create a fashion empire, and they did it all while maintaining an impressive level of privacy. But it wasn't easy work, as it turns out, being two of the most famous twins on the planet is more challenging than you'd think. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's fame was sort of an accident. Their ascent to American media royalty apparently wasn't planned by any means, even if they did grow up in the San Fernando Valley, which houses Hollywood's upper echelons. According to Rolling Stone, the pair's mother sent a photo of the twins to a casting agency that was represented by a friend on a total whim, charting a course to show business before they were even six months old. Since infants can only legally work about 20 minutes at a time, the twins were seen as potentially being a living, breathing, two-for-the-price-of-one deal. They got the job, but that doesn't mean they liked it. John Stamos is the first to admit that the Olsens became a tough sell, and he even tried to get them fired. He told Entertainment Weekly that they cried a lot, which sometimes made work difficult. At one point, they were actually recast, but for whatever reason, the new arrangement didn't work out. So the Olsens were re-hired. Even then, The Washington Post reported that Mary-Kate ended up filming most of Season 1 herself, because Ashley was reportedly too afraid to come on set at the time. Maybe she was just mad at Stamos for trying to put her out of work. In truth, neither of the twins particularly enjoyed their acting careers, at least not in retrospect. In a 2010 interview with Marie Claire, Mary-Kate revealed that the pair felt like, quote, "little monkey performers." In a heartbreaking reveal, she told the outlet, "I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all…I would never wish my upbringing on anyone…" Keep watching to learn Tragic Details About The Olsen Twins. #MaryKateOlsen #AshleyOlsen They never asked for this | 0:20 The final countdown | 2:04 Mary-Kate Olsen's intervention | 3:05 Spencer Pratt sold them out? | 4:33 Asking for help | 5:30 Dropping out | 6:51 A tragic death | 7:57 Retreating from fame | 9:01 Sued by workers | 10:17 Mary-Kate's bitter divorce | 11:45