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Well you must consider that many of these kids started young, sometimes in their early teens or even beforehand. They were preened for this lifestyle at least to some degree - it's probably very rare for somebody to just show up for some random audition and break right into popularity, awards, teenage fertility magazine covers, etc. I mean, if the celebrity sphere is mostly about who you know, then the most charismatic or at least pleasing in appearance are naturally going to garner the most contacts, as with most things in life. Secondarily, celebrities have to be marketable - the 'prettyboy' label is not an entirely unfair one, but it must also consider that in order to, once more, attain the greatest breadth of fanbase, it must maintain a relative androgyny while it is still attainable. The least threatening-looking, yet clasically pleasing features will likely attract the most amount of people, because a disproportionate number of the target demographic is, naturally, the opposite sex, and typically the frothing, throngs of consumer-biased ones, at that.
Star power is ultimately about sex and money, always has been, probably always will be so long as sex remains a somewhat unattainable objectivity in its prescribed doses.
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