Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have a hazy memory of not being famous — incredibly distant. The 30-something fraternal twins accidentally secured the part of Michelle Tanner at 9 months old.

A few years later, they became two of Hollywood’s youngest executive producers, eventually earning $500 million. Their 47 direct-to-video flicks, 16 albums, fashion lines, and tons of goods helped.

Beyond that, they gave ’90s girls hope that family holidays could be romantic adventures rather than arguments over $2.50 Coca-Colas at Bubba Gump Shrimp.

The pair has spurned child star fame to oversee the $1 billion Dualstar Entertainment Group, which owns The Row and Elizabeth and James. Can you blame them after years of paparazzi? The Olsen twins were early 2000s tabloid darlings.

For every headline on how to get a red carpet pout by saying “prune,” there was some bad news. We’re focusing on the latter’s darkness. Being the world’s most famous twins is tough.

Their fame was accidental. Even though they grew up in Hollywood’s Valley, it wasn’t intended. According to Rolling Stone, the twins’ mother emailed a photo to a casting agency “for fun.” Since infants can only work 20 minutes at a time, the twins were a 40-minute workhorse. They was hired, but didn’t enjoy it.

John Stamos admits he wanted to terminate the Olsens because they were hard to market. According to Entertainment Weekly, their tears made it “hard to obtain the shot.” Once recast, it “didn’t work,” so the Olsens were rehired. The Washington Post said that Mary-Kate recorded most of Season 1 because Ashley was “terrified”

In retrospect, neither twin loved their performing careers. Mary-Kate said they felt like “little monkey performers” in a 2010 interview. “I don’t feel attached to previous images of myself,” she said. “I wouldn’t wish my upbringing on anyone.”

Spencer Pratt’s flesh-colored beard ratted on the Olsens and broke mutual fame’s sacred trust. What do you expect from the man who arranged reality TV’s biggest feud? (looking at you, Heidi Montag and Lauren Conrad). Mary-Kate Olsen agrees.

Montag’s future husband claimed to have gained $50,000 by selling a photo of Mary-Kate “drunk at a party” in a 2007 Details story of Pratt’s erstwhile best pal Brody Jenner.

They attended the same high school at the time. The Olsen twins went to a conventional — albeit “small, private” — high school, which later turned out not to be Pratt’s. From the photo, MK was either drunk or startled by a flashing camera.

Mary-passive-aggressive Kate’s jabs at Letterman for Pratt’s photo ignited an all-out brawl. In Us Weekly, he called her a “renowned troll” and “the less cute twin” (via Gawker). He then said he was “secretly jealous of her” and wanted his “face on a lunchbox, too!” $50,000 doesn’t buy many crystals, thus it’s not worth it.

The Olsen twins endured frightening headlines counting down to their 18th birthday when they could legally consent to sexual contact. E! News eerily cheered “Jailbait No More,” and a person built a website called Twin Tracker that compared the Olsen twins’ age to the age of legal consent in all 50 states. He received a cease-and-desist order from their counsel, but he should have stopped sooner.

The twins told E! News that being weird is “part of being a girl,” but it doesn’t mean it’s not upsetting. Ashley Olsen told Rolling Stone in 2003 she “became upset and defensive” when asked about her and Mary-virginity Kate as children.“

”That’s personal. Why ask a 16-year-old that? “saying, The celebrity “cried hysterically” when tabloids published images of the sisters in bikinis in Hawaii. Ashley’s “worst nightmare”

Mary-Kate Olsen was battling behind the scenes as the Olsens’ 18th birthday approached. Rumors of a cocaine addiction circulated due to the star’s thinness and hard-partying reputation. Even the Olsens poked fun of Mary-weight Kate’s in an SNL skit “Thin. Snack!” The kid celebrity had anorexia and wasn’t treated until an intervention.

Mary-therapist Kate’s her father “committed her to a treatment facility” in Sundance, Utah following high school and before NYU. There wasn’t a single occurrence like a kid-star DUI.

The situation has been deteriorating progressively for a long time. The Olsen family tried to “motivate” the star to eat after a vehicle accident a year and a half earlier, according to People. She was told to “gain weight” to get her Range Rover back. They “hired someone to watch [her] eating,” said another insider.

17-year-old MK had little voice in the intervention. Her parents were still her legal guardians, but she continued outpatient treatment at NYU.

Mary-Kate Olsen disguised her eating condition from her New York Minute coworkers. Dennie Gordon told People, “I had many lunches with her, and nothing seemed off.” She tricked Celebrity Rehab’s Drew Pinsky, who played the twins’ dad. People, “She was nicer. I saw nothing. Well-concealed.” After treatment, MK seemed to have faced the truth.

In a 2008 ELLE profile, the celebrity openly addressed her anorexia for the first time, but she never confirmed she had the disease. “I think it’s vital to remember that everything somebody goes through is part of growing up. Everyone faces adversity. It’s normal “said,

“Asking for help” and “being honest with yourself” are “the hardest parts,” he told Elle. “She added, “I don’t want to live with my eyes or thoughts closed. I’m curious. I prefer to know.”

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s college dreams were cut short by a privacy violation. People say the twins graduated high school in 2004 and enrolled at NYU. They bought a $7.3 million West Village condo “they never moved into” and began their short-lived studies.

The Daily News reported that the twins were “over it.” MK skipped class. She was reportedly considering a “independent study program” that would let her travel between NYC and LA.

She took a leave of absence, leading to rumors she was attending eating problem treatment again. MK reportedly had two teams of therapists, nutritionists, and food coaches during her first semester.

Ashley quickly followed. According to ELLE, the twins quit school because they “felt unsafe.” Their classmates allegedly copied the Pratt Daddy playbook and sold tabloid tales. They ran a profitable business.

The Olsen twins once claimed they didn’t smoke, a habit that kills 480,000 Americans annually. In 2003, the sisters said they didn’t “smoke or drink.” When they discovered the couture-clad cigarette break, the tables turned.

Why is the media fixated on the twins’ bad habits? The few minutes they speak about business in front of an office building may have become the glue holding their sisterly friendship together.

Perhaps it’s because they’ve mainly disappeared from public view and give us little more than a butt in sunglasses. Either way, the phenomenon is generating headlines. Why do photographs of the Olsen twins smoking calm Rachel Handler?

Life & Style blamed “haggard” looks on cigarettes. Page Six reported that Mary-wedding Kate’s contained “bowls upon bowls of smokes”

The Olsen twins are so addicted that they’re willing to jeopardize their careers to continue. MK was reprimanded twice at a 2010 NYC Fashion Week party for smoking indoors, according to the Daily News.

Mary-Kate Olsen has dated Nate Lowman, Henry Winkler’s son Max Winker, Olivier Sarkozy, and not Spencer Pratt. It’s said that her most famous flame was also her most heartbreaking.

According to People, Ledger and Olsen have been “casually dating for three months” They “hooked up” but weren’t exclusive; both smoked Marlboro Reds (which means it was basically millennial true love).

Tabloids reported the never-confirmed relationship after the NYT said Diana Wolozin, the masseuse who found Ledger motionless, “called Full House twice” before contacting 911.

She allegedly used “speed-dial” on Ledger’s phone to call MK in California, but stated she’d “call private security in New York” to handle it. Wolozin called again since she couldn’t wake up Ledger. Wolozin tried to resuscitate the celebrity after the MK calls by calling 911.

Ledger’s death was considered a “accidental overdose of prescription medicines,” and there were reports that Mary-Kate was involved in a federal examination into whether Ledger’s painkillers were purchased illegally. After finding no “viable target,” the feds abandoned the case.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen made a fortune from their popularity, but they’ve largely retired from the public spotlight since MK’s 2011 appearance in Beastly.

Today, the couple is a Hollywood enigma, clad in huge couture and long, disheveled hair, heads pinned together at carefully picked events (think: the Met Gala or Fashion Week, where they promote their fashion labels).

They’re so busy operating their billion-dollar enterprise that their old lives as Hollywood starlets seem exotic.

Mary-Kate told Net-A-The Porter’s Edit in March 2017 that they’re used to being behind the camera and overseeing the process. They’re not influencers. Ashley told The Edit that they “don’t dive into that world” and have “stayed insulated.”

In 2016, when they took over Sephora’s Instagram to promote Elizabeth and James, they posted their first public selfie (above right). It was trendy, but don’t expect a recurrence. They’ve abandoned their roots, even skipping the Fuller House reboot.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s luxury labels are lauded by those who can pay $6,500 for a frock. Price-wise, it’s comparable to Bottega Veneta and Lanvin. The Wall Street Journal reported that The Row’s $39,000 alligator bag sold out (and likely spark some outrage among animal rights activists in the process).

Some Olsens attacked them in 2015. The Row interns sued Dualstar Entertainment Group for wage theft. Shahista Lalani, a Parsons School of Design graduate, spearheaded the complaint, stating she worked 50-hour weeks doing “the job of three interns.”

After carrying “50 pounds of trench coats” in 100 degree temps, she was supposedly hospitalized for dehydration.

She told Page Six, “You’re like an employee, except unpaid.” “They’re cruel. Another intern cried. I’d witness youngsters crying while running errands or copying.”

The Row’s interns were doing the same work as normal employees, according to the lawsuit. The brand labeled the complaint “meritless” but settled out of court, agreeing to split $140,000 among 185 interns.

Mary-Kate Olsen’s unusual marriage to Olivier Sarkozy has been marked by uncomfortable PDA, but things have apparently become ugly behind closed doors in their luxurious NYC residence.

TMZ stated that MK signed divorce papers in April 2020, but NYC paused proceedings due to COVID-19. She obtained an emergency order the next month, claiming Sarkozy “terminated their lease” behind her back and was trying to “push her out.”

He allegedly gave her a May 18 deadline to evacuate her possessions, which was impossible due to quarantine rules, then ghosted when she begged for an extension.

So Little Time star has too little time to transfer her belongings before Sarkozy tosses them out, so filing for divorce may be her only option. Although NYC evictions were temporarily suspended, it’s unclear if that includes bitter lovers.

E! News reports that MK is “done with continual drama” and is staying with Ashley and pals outside the city. She’s got a prenup.

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