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Shailene Woodley Reflects connected Aaron Rodgers Breakup
This American teen present has a 16-year-old.
Before Shailene Woodley starred successful Big Little Lies and was (briefly) engaged to Aaron Rodgers, she was the pb of ABC Family's play The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which premiered connected July 1, 2008. In the series, Shailene played Amy, a 15-year-old who becomes large aft having enactment for the archetypal clip with the astir fashionable lad successful schoolhouse Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff). Complicating matters? Since their experience, they had some begun dating different classmates.
Helmed by the creators of 7th Heaven, The Secret Life of the American Teenager aired 121 episodes earlier ending its six-season tally successful 2013. In a 2020 interrogation with Bustle, Shailene reflected connected her clip connected the series.
I tin lone talk [about my characters' enactment lives] done my acquisition with sex," she shared. "When I signed onto Secret Life, I work [three] episodes and I signed a declaration for six years. [Those episodes] each deed home. I had friends successful precocious schoolhouse who were pregnant. It felt similar everything that I wanted to beryllium sending into the world."
What she got successful instrumentality was a yearbook's worthy of memories with the close-knit cast.
"We already we consciousness similar we're existent precocious schoolhouse friends," Megan Park (who starred arsenic spiritual teen Grace Bowman) shared successful a 2020 JustJared-hosted video chat. "Even if tons of clip has passed, and you spot whether it's benignant of similar nary clip has passed, due to the fact that we conscionable benignant of had these formative years together. So to me, you guys really consciousness similar my similar OG precocious schoolhouse friends, which is benignant of cool."
In grant of the show's 16th anniversary, find retired what the formed of The Secret Life of the American Teenager is up to now...
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Shailene Woodley
The histrion was conscionable 16 erstwhile she got her large interruption playing Amy Juergens, a teen whose unplanned gestation sends shockwaves done her precocious school. Shailene has gone connected to ascent the ranks of Hollywood's A-list aft her breakout show successful 2011's The Descendants, going connected to beforehand the Divergent film franchise and astir precocious starring successful HBO's Big Little Lies.
Shailene was engaged to NFL backmost Aaron Rodgers, but the mates broke up successful February 2022 arsenic she was filming the Starz bid Three Women.
"It was hard to movie due to the fact that I was going done the darkest, hardest clip successful my life; it was wintertime successful New York, and my idiosyncratic beingness was s---ty, truthful it felt similar a large symptom bubble for 8 months," Shailene explained to PORTER in January. "I was truthful grateful that astatine slightest I could spell to enactment and outcry and process my emotions done my character."
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Daren Kagasoff
Daren became an instant teen heartthrob acknowledgment to his show arsenic Ricky Underwood, nonmigratory fashionable feline and begetter to Amy's baby. Since moving connected from the ABC Family series, the histrion has appeared connected respective tv shows, including S.W.A. T. and The Village. He most recently co-starred in Devotion.
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Megan Park
The Canadian actress, who played the spiritual Grace Bowman, has found success down the camera aft Secret Life ended. She's directed euphony videos for Billie Eilish and Gucci Mane, and made her feature movie directorial debut with The Fallout, which won 3 awards astatine South by Southwest successful 2021.
Megan tied the knot with singer Tyler Hilton successful 2015, and welcomed their daughter Winnie successful December 2019.
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Ken Baumann
After finishing his tally arsenic bully feline Ben Boykewich, the histrion moved connected to different passion. Baumann has authored respective fabrication and non-fiction books, and successful 2018 landed a fellowship at St. John's College successful Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is joined to actress Aviva Farber, whose best known for her relation in Superbad.
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Francia Raisa
Following her clip on Secret Life as fiery Adrian Lee, the histrion landed starring roles connected Freeform's Grown-ish and Hulu's How I Met Your Father. In 2017, Francia made headlines aft donating a kidney to adjacent friend Selena Gomez. Though the brace reportedly had a falling retired successful 2022, Francia told E! News successful January 2024 that their narration is similar a sisterhood. She besides revealed what it was similar dealing with online harassment amid their rumored tension.
"It's not bully astatine all. It's not amusive either," Francia told TMZ successful May 2023 of the messages she's received. "They are beauteous atrocious but I deliberation the 1 that astir apt wounded the astir was, 'I anticipation idiosyncratic goes up your p--sy and rips retired your different kidney you f--king whore."
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Greg Finley
After dedicating the aboriginal years of his vocation to playing delicate jock Jack Pappas, the histrion went connected to nab impermanent roles successful shows similar Star Crossed, iZombie and The Flash and appeared successful films similar 2023's Inside Man.
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Renee Olstead
Aside from her relation arsenic Amy's champion person Madison Cooperstein, the histrion is champion known for starring connected CBS' Still Standing. She continues keeping fans up to day connected her latest endeavors, including caller euphony and modeling gigs, connected Instagram. After six twelvemonth of marriage, Renee divorced pianist Tommy King successful 2020.
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Allen Evangelista
Following his clip arsenic Ben's adjacent pal Henry Miller, the histrion went connected to look connected Brooklyn Nine-Nine and successful the 2015 film Project Almanac. The Zoey 101 alum has been joined to Christina Burhoe since 2013 and the mates person 2 sons, Harrison and Hudson.
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Camille Winbush
The actress, who starred arsenic astute and applicable Lauren Treacy connected Secret Life, inactive continues to enactment connected smaller projects and remains adjacent with Francia and Renee.
The Secret Life of the American Teenager is streaming connected Freeform.
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