This Photo Was Taken in 1975. Three Years Later, the Young Woman in It Would Become One of the Most Famous Faces on Earth — and It Nearly Destroyed Her.

In 1975, the young woman in this photograph was just a teenager from a famous family, trying to find her own footing. Almost no one outside Hollywood would have recognized her. She was funny, sharp-tongued, and privately fighting battles that the public wouldn’t learn about for decades.

Then came an audition for a low-budget science-fiction film that most of Hollywood expected to flop. She almost didn’t get the part. The director wasn’t sure. But she landed it — and when that film came out, it didn’t just succeed. It became one of the biggest movies in the history of cinema, and overnight her face was on lunchboxes, posters, and screens in every country on Earth.

That kind of fame, arriving that fast and that young, is not the fairy tale people imagine. Behind the iconic image the world fell in love with, she was carrying struggles with her health and her private life that the sudden, crushing spotlight made far harder to bear.

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