The ‘Suite Life’ star says Disney Channel sexualized its young female cast members.<\/p>\n
(LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 An actor who starred as a child in a hit Disney Channel show with his twin brother said the network \u201csexualized\u201d its young actresses.<\/p>\n Cole Sprouse, who starred in \u201cThe Suite Life of Zach and Cody,\u201d told the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that child actors regularly endure trauma.<\/p>\n \u201cMy brother and I used to get quite a bit of, \u2018Oh, you made it out! Oh, you\u2019re unscathed!\u2019 No,\u201d Sprouse said in a interview published April 4.<\/p>\n \u201cThe young women on the channel we were on were so heavily sexualized from such an earlier age than my brother and I that there\u2019s absolutely no way that we could compare our experiences,\u201d Sprouse said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd every single person going through that trauma has a unique experience. When we talk about child stars going nuts, what we\u2019re not actually talking about is how fame is a trauma,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m violently defensive against people who mock some of the young women who were on the channel when I was younger because I don\u2019t feel like it adequately comprehends the humanity of that experience and what it takes to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd, to be quite honest, as I have now gone through a second big round of this fame game as an adult, I\u2019ve noticed the same psychological effects that fame yields upon a group of young adults as I did when I was a child.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI just think people have an easier time hiding it when they\u2019re older.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ‘Suite Life’ star says Disney Channel sexualized its young female cast members. (LifeSiteNews) \u2014 An actor who starred as a child in a hit Disney Channel show with his twin brother said the network \u201csexualized\u201d its young actresses. Cole Sprouse, who starred in \u201cThe Suite Life of Zach and Cody,\u201d told the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0that Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[860,38,56,1287,1241,39,5,58],"tags":[1353,1354,563,1350,1351,1352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16909,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907\/revisions\/16909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}