Amanda lands magazine cover

Former child star turned cautionary tale Amanda Bynes has resurfaced on the cover of Paper magazine looking happy, healthy and ready for a comeback.

Bynes broke through on Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy show All That before scoring a series of her own at age 13 with The Amanda Show. Her star continued to rise through the early 2000s with movie roles aplenty, including What a Girl Wants, She’s the Man and Hairspray.

But eventually, Bynes said in a new sitdown interview with Paper, self-image issues fuelled her burgeoning drug habit and led to her abandoning acting altogether.

The actress recounted a moment on the set of Hall Pass, when, after seeing herself on a monitor, “literally tripping out and thinking my arm looked so fat because it was in the foreground or whatever and I remember rushing off set and thinking, ‘Oh, my god, I look so bad.’”

According to Bynes, it was a combination of image issues and Adderall abuse that resulted in her eventually leaving Hall Pass.