Hayden Panettiere was only 8 months old when she signed with Wilhelmina Models and 11 months when she booked her first commercial. Pushed by her momager, Lesley, she excelled as a child actor, and rapid success, pressure and a knack for onscreen vulnerability shaped her into a teenage people pleaser who found herself less than pleased with headlines she read about herself. "It really started when I was 16 years old," she explains to Us, with "people creating stories that were false about me. There have been a lot of preconceived ideas, and I've always tried to be open and honest.