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You've got to hand it to them. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
leveraged a role they landed at six months old into a high fashion
empire. From Full House to the CFDA awards, we haven't seen
such a successful dual career in anyone else under 30. They may have
been set up for success, but they didn't just shoot for the moon and
land among the stars—they landed on the moon, planted the Olsen flag,
and took over. Don't forget, they were Hollywood producers at age 6, and
they managed to become film and fashion moguls while overcoming some
unfortunate mishaps. The two young actresses who played as Michelle
Tanner struck gold in Hollywood and in the fashion industry, but there
were certainly some stumbles along the way.
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Almost fired from Full House
The twins had landed their first, and what would become
their breakout role, at six months old as Michelle Tanner, the youngest
of three girls on the sitcom Full House. They eventually became
the biggest stars of the sitcom, but not before experiencing a
tumultuous start. You see, filming can be rough on children, especially
babies, and they don't always listen to directors when filming a scene
because, let's face it, they're babies. Mary-Kate and Ashley were no
exception.
According to Daily Mail UK, Full House actor
John
Stamos admits he did not enjoy working with the infant twins in the
first few seasons of the show. Stamos claims it was hard to get good
shots because the twins cried so frequently and at one point he asked
for new babies.
Once Stamos realized that he maybe just
didn't like acting with babies, the Olsens were brought back on the
show, because they were, frankly, cuter than the uggo replacements the
casting director had scrounged up and began their meteoric rise to
Hollywood fame.
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Dentures: Been there done that
Mary-Kate and Ashley are fraternal, not identical, twins.
Ashley is right-handed, Mary-Kate is left handed. Ashley is an inch
taller than her twin and has a freckle just above her lip. Also, they
lost their teeth at rapidly different rates when they were children.
Since they shared the role of Michelle Tanner and her teeth had to
consistently look the same, the twins were fitted with dentures as they
began losing their baby teeth, because obviously their Full House
character constantly had perfect dental hygiene. The Olsens are gonna
kill the denture game when they're 90 because, hello, they have
experience.
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Sometimes credited as a single person
According to ABC News, Full House producers
credited the Michelle Tanner character to "Mary Kate Ashley Olsen" for
the first few seasons. Back in those days, you could just do things like
that and no one would know the character was played by twins. Luckily,
that stopped happening once the two got older.
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The Walmart clothing line
The Olsen twins dressed identically well into their teens
and sometimes even still, but that's a whole other issue. Normally, we
think of Walmart as a place to buy things for the house and maybe
stampede over someone during Black Friday. We wouldn't put the latest
fashion hits on our Walmart shopping lists. Yet, we totally did if we
were tweens in the early 2000s, when Mary-Kate and Ashley launched their
first ever fashion line at Walmart. Unfortunately, the clothing line
didn't do too well, but it did help open the doors to be the faces of
Badgley Mischka and eventually open their own couture label.
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Mary-Kate's anorexia
Just before she hit 18, Mary-Kate Olsen was admitted into a
treatment center for anorexia. She visibly lost a ton of weight before
she was admitted. Unfortunately, the stresses of the Olsen's work in the
fashion industry had finally gotten to Mary-Kate. We're just glad that
years later she has retained a more healthy weight.
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Mary-Kate's connection to Heath Ledger's death
Mary-Kate Olsen was the first person Heath Ledger's
housekeeper called when she found him dead in his apartment. Olsen sent
one of her security team members to check on Ledger before the worker
realized a medical professional would be more helpful and called for an
ambulance. The then-22-year-old actress had been "casually dating"
Ledger for three months prior to his death according to Access Hollywood
.
Rumors quickly circulated that she had provided the pills Ledger
overdosed on, but the allegations were never proven. While it's not
necessarily a childhood moment, Ledger's death still hit Mary-Kate at a
relatively young age. Luckily, she was able to bounce back and continue
her success in the fashion industry.
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