Actually, come to think of it, I always used to confuse Amanda Bynes with her fellow “former child star on Nickelodeon” alumni Michelle Trachtenberg. They’re close in age and I used to watch them in the mids 90s. Similar looks, too:
http://www.morphthing.com/celebrity/37387238-Michelle-Trachtenberg—Amanda-Bynes?t=1
But I googled Trachtenberg and she seems to be doing perfectly fine, unlike train wreaks Bynes and Lohan. (all age 27, all former child stars. Lohan was a Disney gal though)
I’m guessing child stars do so bad cause they are exposed to drugs and booze at a young age.
“But I googled Trachtenberg and she seems to be doing perfectly fine,”
Not so much her career, Lohan and Bynes have starred in movies, however horrible they were.