MONTREAL—Annette and Cecile Dionne admit they don’t know much about the online world of pint-sized content creators dubbed “kidfluencers.” But the sisters, who turn 85 on Tuesday, can tell you a thing or two about the perils of childhood celebrity. But in what is believed to be a first in recorded history, all five identical girls survived through infancy, and Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionne grew into an international sensation. But all that attention came at a personal cost, say Annette and Cecile, the two surviving Dionne quintuplets. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW“(It can cause) lots of damage,” Annette told The Canadian Press in a rare interview earlier this month. Today, childhood stardom has adapted to social media, where so-called kidfluencers as young as five are paid to peddle products in sponsored YouTube videos and Instagram posts.

Source: thestar May 27, 2019 18:11 UTC