Happy Birthday Olsen Twins!

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Evan Rachel Wood / Drew Barrymore
As anyone who saw Marilyn Mansons video for Heart-Shaped Glasses knows, the 19-year-old actress is kind of going through a rebellious phase right now. (She and the singer, nearly 20 years her senior, have graphic, blood-soaked sex in the video). But she may come around. Drew Barrymore was into being a bad girl when she was 19, and look at her now: reigning queen of the romantic comedy. (LAT / AP)

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Hilary Duff / Melissa Joan Hart
The actress was a solid gold money-making machine as tween Lizzie McGuire, but her film ventures have mostly tanked. So unless her singing career takes off, young Duff seems to be heading down the Melissa Joan Hart path. She may keep working, but it will be in obscurity. (AP / Getty Images)

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Shia LaBeouf / Leonardo DiCaprio
Life is looking promising for this young actor who came of age on the family television show Even Stevens. Leonardo DiCaprio came of age on a television show too. Could LaBeouf follow in DiCaprios footsteps? Only time and Martin Scorsese will tell. (Getty Images / AP)

By Deborah Netburn

Sept. 16, 2014 6:39 AM PT

Times Staff Writer

Today our beloved Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen turn 21. After wishing them a heartfelt happy birthday in our minds, we began to wonder what the future holds for them and their peers now that they are officially “former child actors.”

(As countless VH1 and E! Entertainment shows have shown us, being a “former child actor” is not necessarily a happy thing to be.)

Taking other “former child actors” as our guide,