![]() ![]() The actress - who was cast as Punky at age 7, beating out 1,000 girls to play the precocious youngster - became something of an unofficial ringleader of kid stars in Hollywood. Moon Frye spent nine months combing through hundreds of hours of her footage to create the film, which offers an intimate look at what it was like to be young and famous in an era before social media. It was a journey, she said, that has not only produced a new documentary - Hulu’s “Kid 90,” out March 12 - but also led her back to herself. She’d always held onto them - they were well-preserved in big Tupperware containers - but it wasn’t until 2017 that she felt called to revisit them. As a kid, she relished documenting her life: She begin keeping a diary at age 5, recording audiotape at 12 and filming with a video camera at 14. Moon Frye was sitting at her place in Venice, a couple blocks from the beach, with stacks of her old journals surrounding her. And I became so focused on giving my all to being a mom and a wife that I lost sight of the artist inside me.” But that led me to desire some tradition - the love and joy of family. “I had a really unorthodox upbringing that was amazing and so colorful, being raised by a single mom. “I’m so proud to be a mom, but I started to wonder: ‘Who am I, in addition to my children whom I love so much?’” said Moon Frye, now 44. She’d gotten married at age 22 and went on to have four children with her husband, producer Jason Goldberg. Shortly after her 40th birthday, the actress started to question her identity. Always eager to solve a problem - even one as daunting as administering CPR to her best friend, who got locked in a refrigerator during a game of hide-and-seek. So self-possessed that she was somehow able to pull off a rainbow wardrobe. So why didn’t Moon Frye feel the need to make a theatrical, public break with her squeaky clean child star image?īecause she was actually like Punky. And after being taunted by boys who called her “Punky Boobster” because of her size 38DD chest, she got a breast reduction at age 15, using the experience as a platform to address teenage body insecurities. ![]() In interviews, she spoke proudly about being a virgin. When the sitcom came to a close in 1988, she returned to school in the San Fernando Valley and spent her summers at camp in Malibu. Soleil Moon Frye never had a “ Wrecking Ball” moment.Īt the height of her fame on “Punky Brewster,” she teamed up with then-First Lady Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign to urge kids to resist drugs. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |