How Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen escaped the child star curse and became billion-dollar fashion titans

‘It comes with the territory,’ a 17-year-old Ashley Olsen told Oprah Winfrey in 2004 when discussing how her appearance, and that of her twin sister Mary-Kate, were picked apart on the world stage at the height of their fame.

The twins provided astute commentary on how child stars of years past were thrust into the limelight and left to fend for themselves amid preying eyes of fans, often before they had even reached adolescence.