When I turned 21, I started losing weight - again, a normal thing for any girl my age. I did not take a conscious decision to reduce my weight.
I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
I got to do school properly and all the stuff that you should do when you're young and teenage: first friends, first girlfriends. It wasn't like I needed to be doing acting.
No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.
If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.
Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
Is there such a thing as a normal childhood?