It is not easy growing up in the shadow of a figure known throughout the world. Some tried to follow in his footsteps but failed to make a name for themselves in film or music.
Frank Stallone
Frank Stallone is the younger brother of one of the biggest action stars in the history of the seventh art. Born in New York City in 1950, Frank also tried his hand at being an actor but fared much better in music, where his song hit the top 10 hit on Billboard's Staying Alive chart. ), the second part of Saturday Night Fever, directed by his brother and starring John Travolta in 1983. As an actor he had less luck: he appeared in a few films where his brother was the main character (with minor roles in the first three Rocky installments, for example), but the rest of his filmography is forgettable. At the end of 2009, he participated in the cast of The most idiotic videos in the World, a program on the truTV channel.
In February 2016, he lashed out at members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, furious that the American actor lost the Oscar. Stallone had all the numbers to win the statuette for his supporting role in Creed, where he once again plays Rocky Balboa, the character that made him famous. But in an unexpected twist, the award ended up in the hands of Britain's Mark Rylance for his performance in Bridge of Spies, the Cold War-set film directed by Steven Spielberg. “The Academy should be ashamed. Clearly Sly (Stallone's nickname) won. Mark what? It's typical Hollywood bullshit,” Frank Stallone wrote on his Twitter account.
Jamie Lynn Spears
The younger sister of Britney Spears, she had an upward career and had managed to break away from the shadow of the famous "Princess of Pop" by landing the leading role in the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101. But everything changed in 2007 when Jamie Lynn, at just 16 years old, got pregnant by her boyfriend at the time, Casey Aldridge, and gave up what was her biggest dream. The news, far from filling the Spears family with happiness, made Jamie Lynn the object of fierce criticism. Her life became a true national debate in the United States and a soap opera that occupied all the front pages. Given the pressure she was subjected to, she decided to get away from the spotlight and take a breather in her career, which has been going on for 14 years. She dedicates herself completely to her family. However, her passion for her artistic world seems to remain latent because in 2018 she tried to become a country music singer. She performed at some events, but it seems that her comeback as her singer didn't work out as she expected. It has recently been revealed that 28-year-old Lynn will be in charge of giving life to Noreen Fitzgibbons, a young nurse, in the new Netflix series called Sweet Magnolias, based on the novels by Sherryl Woods.
Ashley Simpson
In 2004, with her own reality show on MTV and her first album, Autobiography, Ashlee Simpson ceased to be known as "Jessica Simpson's little sister" and became one of the best-known figures in television and music. Inclusively, Ella opted for a much more rocker type of music and aesthetics that was rewarded with numerous awards such as several MTV or Teen Choice Awards. However, and despite not wanting to look like her sister, her career has also been marked by more than one media scandal that has questioned her popularity. One of her most notorious was when in 2004 she recorded lip-syncing during the presentation of her single on the Saturday Night Live program and that caused her disappearance for months from the foreground of today.
Regarding her personal level, Ashlee Simpson married Pete Wentz in 2008, one of the members of the Fall Out Boy band, with whom she had been related since 2006. Only ten days later the couple announced that they were expecting their first child. However, in 2011, the singer filed for divorce. In 2014, she announced via Twitter her engagement to Evan Ross, son of the legendary singer Diana Ross. Just a year later, the happy couple became the parents of their first daughter together. In 2018 they starred in a reality show for E!, a chain specializing in reality shows that launched the entire Kardashian family to fame.
