Then the teen years hit, and she couldn't land any roles. Why? "Braces and boobs. I got both of them," she reveals in a Chicago Sun-Times article.
The boobs presumably made it hard to cast her as a little kid any longer, of course, but I don't think most directors would have objected to those too much. The braces, on the other hand....
I wonder if Lights, Camera, Braces! would have made it easier for her to get through those braced years!