Drew Barrymore doesn't want daughter to become child star

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Feb 01 2013 | 4:15 PM IST

The 'Chalie's Angels' star grew up in the spotlight and landed in rehab at the tender age of 13, but she has decided not to let her four-month-old daughter Olive to grow up in the spotlight, reported Daily Mail.

"I had such an exposed childhood. I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide," said Barrymore.

Her mother Jaid, a struggling Hollywood actress and inveterate party-goer, took Barrymore to nightclubs when she was just eight and to auditions before she was a year old.

"Because I live my life in the public eye, I didn't want that for her. I know she didn't sign up for that," she said.

Unless I move into a bunker underground, I don't have a choice in this matter. It was something that took me weeks to cope with."

Barrymore will soon convert to Judaism like her art consultant husband Will Kopelman, and she plans to raise Olive Jewish with the kind of rigid structure she lacked as a child.

The 'Poison Ivy' star has put her acting and directing career on hold as she nests with her baby and 35-year-old beau, who's father Arie Kopelman is the former Chanel CEO.

  

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First Published: Feb 01 2013 | 4:15 PM IST

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