, resurfaced online recently when discussing her decision to leave acting for good after some success as a child star. The 28-year-old writer now works for a publishing house, but says she is regularly asked why she gave up acting as a teenager. «I started acting when I was nine and from the beginning my mom told me, 'The second this becomes not fun or you want to stop, you can stop,'» she shared on TikTok. «I never expected it to be a lifetime thing.