2000s Nickelodeon Main Girls: The place Are They Now?

Blast from the previous! Nickelodeon has been house to childhood hits for years — and children rising up within the 2000s will always remember the community’s main women.

From Amanda Bynes, Emma Roberts and Keke Palmer to Jamie Lynn Spears and Miranda Cosgrove, girls had a significant presence on Nick from 2000 to the mid-2010s. Whereas Bynes’ comedic legacy stretched from the late ‘90s to 2002 with The Amanda Present, Palmer didn’t burst onto the teen-TV scene till 2008 with True Jackson, VP.

Cosgrove cemented herself as a Nick darling in 2004 when she performed the bratty sister on Drake & Josh alongside Drake Bell and Josh Peck. Just a few years later, she lanced her personal present, iCarly, which additionally introduced fan-favorite Jennette McCurdy into the highlight.

Whereas the women, who have been simply youngsters after they turned well-known, informed completely different tales on display, a lot of them had related hardships whereas dwelling within the public eye at a younger age.

“For positive there was stress,” Cosgrove revealed throughout a September 2022 episode of the “Reign With Josh Smith” podcast. “Even whenever you’re not on TV or appearing or something, simply rising up, there’s a variety of stress to attempt to determine so many issues out.”

The California native, who reprised her position of Carly Shay on 2021’s Paramount+ reboot of iCarly, famous that she typically discovered herself ignoring any optimistic suggestions.

“Once I was youthful, I’d undergo and form of ignore all the good feedback and search for the one imply one,” she defined of her expertise on social media as a younger superstar. “I’d be going by for awhile and be like, ‘Oh, discovered it!’”

Her remarks got here one month after her former costar McCurdy launched her debut memoir, I’m Glad My Mother Died, which detailed her troubling childhood and arduous moments in Hollywood.

“I believe seeing your self is especially troublesome with rising up within the public eye, since you’re so public-facing and seen as one factor,” the comic, who later starred on Nick’s Sam & Cat, wrote within the e book. “That makes the fact of you a lot extra unseen and invalidated and unacknowledged. However now, as a result of I see myself, I can settle for being seen by others.”

The previous little one star additionally famous how troublesome it was to see her Sam & Cat costar Ariana Grande turn out to be a megastar as soon as their present resulted in 2014.

“Each time one thing thrilling occurs to her, I really feel like she robbed me of getting that have myself,” McCurdy recalled, claiming that Nickelodeon handled her otherwise than Grande. “And each time somebody calls me a superb sport, all I really feel is how a lot I don’t need to be one.”

Whereas the “God is a Lady” singer has but to touch upon McCurdy’s e book, Cosgrove informed The New York Instances in August 2022 that she had no thought what her costar was coping with after they have been youngsters. (McCurdy additionally alleged that iCarly creator Dan Schneider prompted her trauma on set.)

“I really like Miranda to items. I all the time will. She has such a particular place in my coronary heart,” McCurdy informed Leisure Tonight after her e book hit cabinets. “She helped me develop as an individual and heal as an individual, and I hope I did the identical for her. I simply love her a lot.”

Scroll right down to see what a few of your favourite Nickelodeon women from the 2000s are doing now: