Haley Joel & Emily Osment Talk Growing Up arsenic Child Stars
Eden Wood has different crown nether her belt.
The erstwhile Toddlers and Tiaras star precocious graduated precocious schoolhouse as valedictorian.
"Alumni Status," she captioned a achromatic and achromatic photo of her successful her headdress and gown, holding her diploma. "#valedictorian #classof2023 #graduated #edenwood #highschoolgrad #ontocollege."
Up adjacent for the 18-year-old? College successful her location authorities of Arkansas wherever she'll prosecute a bachelor's grade successful broadcast journalism.
"I privation to bash thing that I love." Eden told Today in an interrogation published May 22. "I don't privation to beryllium stuck doing a occupation that's boring. I've been successful a beforehand of a camera my full life, truthful this feels similar the cleanable fit."
After all, she's no alien to being on-air arsenic she appeared successful the TLC world amusement successful 2009 to 2011 before landing her ain spin-off Eden's World successful 2012.
While she called it "an breathtaking time," she yet decided to measurement distant from the spotlight successful 5th people to beryllium an mean kid.
"I focused connected my schooling," she shared. "But erstwhile I was done with that, I branched backmost retired into pageants and modeling."
Today, her extremity is to 1 time correspond Arkansas successful the Miss America Pageant.
"Pageants were conscionable truthful affirmative for me," Eden, who wants to usage her level to extremity bullying and propulsion kids to execute their goal, continued. "Pageants gave maine confidence. Anyone that puts a statement connected pageants and makes it negative—there's thing incorrect with them and their mode of thinking, due to the fact that it's innocent. It's conscionable similar immoderate different sport."