Melissa Joan Hart Says Money From Early Acting Jobs Went to Supporting Her Family — Including Her 7 Siblings

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1. > “I felt like I had to behave to be a role model for them,” Hart explained. “You know, the money that I made on commercials and Clarissa or any of my acting jobs, it always went to the family.”

   > “I got to go pick out a Barbie and like, as I got older, some people were like, ‘Oh, that’s not right. You should have kept your money,’” she added. “And I was like … I would rather put food on the table and make sure my siblings had good clothes and bicycles for Christmas, you know, things like that. So, I definitely felt like I wanted to be responsible for them.”

2. Clarissa Provides for All

3. That’s called parentification, it wasn’t her job to take care of her sisters/brother 🙁

   What the actual F. Heartbreaking story 💔

4. Is financial parentification a thing? If so, then this would definitely be it.

5. There is no ethical way to do child stardom if the parents don’t have an income of their own

6. So by the time she did that video with Britney both girls had been supporting their families for about 10 years.

7. If you can’t afford having 7 kids, don’t have them.

8. Pretty dumb of her to do that

9. Reminder she’s still a religious nut and did that awful God is Not Dead sequel.

10. A take as old as time!

11. Wait, she has 7 siblings? Thats a crazy amount

12. She’s under no obligation to explain herself to us.

13. What did she do with all that God Is Not Dead 2 money?