Oh, the perils of growing up in the media circus of fame.

Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson was rushed to hospital on Wednesday following an attempt to end her own life.

She was reportedly fighting depression, but other reasons are slowly coming to light.

A source told E! News that Paris recently complained about being bullied in school. She also felt "like an outsider" and had difficulty fitting in.

"She does not have very many true friends there, and she doesn't feel like she really fits in there," the source said.

Being a teenager is hard enough without being shoved into the public eye after a lifetime of privacy.

"The fact that she and (her brother) Prince saw their father dead that day, well, that's incredibly traumatising in itself," a source told Fox News, adding that this suicide attempt wasn't Paris' first.

She is reportedly recuperating and family members are helping the high-school cheerleader get back onto her feet.

Her attempted suicide is certainly a sad call for help, but she's not the only pop progeny who has gone off the rails.

We look at other celebrity offspring who might have felt the burden of their famous last names.

Cameron Douglas, 34

Veteran actor Michael Douglas' eldest son Cameron is serving a 10-year jail term for drug offences.

The recalcitrant junkie's first brush with the law was in 1999, when he was found with cocaine in New York and was arrested and charged with a misdemeanour possession of a controlled substance.

The charge was dropped after Douglas pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of disorderly conduct.

Douglas was again arrested a decade later in July 2009 for selling methamphetamine from a high-end Manhattan hotel. This time, he was slapped with a fiveyear prison sentence.

Two years later, Douglas received another 4½ years in federal prison after he tried to have prescription pills smuggled into the facility.

Montana Fishburne, 21

Actor Laurence Fishburne's daughter took an extreme route to notoriety by becoming a porn actress.

In August 2010, Montana, who goes by the moniker Chippy D, released the video Montana Fishburne: An A-List Daughter Makes Her XXX Debut, and also posed nude in Playboy magazine.

Her career choice was frowned upon by daddy dearest, who subsequently cut all ties with her.

She also had anger management issues, having allegedly bashed up her then-boyfriend's ex in 2010.

She later checked herself into an in-patient facility that specialises in anger management, behavioural problems and mental illnesses.

Clearly an attention-seeker, she reportedly faked a suicide attempt in 2011 by pretending to drink bleach, all caught on video.

Jack Osbourne, 27, and Kelly Osbourne, 28

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this family.

With rocker daddy Ozzy Osbourne known for drugs and booze, it's little wonder that his kids started substance abuse at a young age.

Kelly admitted in a BBC interview that she was often under the influence from the time she was 12. She was later addicted to painkillers.

The reality star-turned-TV host checked herself into rehab several times, and by 2009, was declared clean.

Jack allegedly got drunk at 13, and by 14, he was an alcoholic and a pothead.

Said to be battling depression, he once attempted suicide by downing a cocktail of prescription pills and cutting his hands with shards of glass.

Though he awoke hours later, Jack continued to be in self-destruct mode until he checked himself into an adolescent psychiatric ward at 17 and got his act together.

Despite being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis recently, Jack celebrated 10 years of sobriety in April.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, 20

Is she following in the footsteps of her parents, who made headlines with their drug use?

The daughter of the late pop diva Whitney Houston and New Edition singer Bobby Brown was caught on camera in 2011 allegedly snorting cocaine.

The National Enquirer carried the photos along with reports that Bobbi also regularly took alcohol and marijuana. She denied drug use and tweeted that it was a set-up by a disgruntled ex-boyfriend.

But the young woman was reportedly spotted taking drugs shortly after her mother's funeral in 2012.

Bobbi was recently in the limelight again for getting evicted from her apartment for constantly caus- ing a disturbance, but she insisted that she left voluntarily.

She did leave behind a haughty sayonara note for her neighbours, calling them a "miserable couple" who should be "honoured to have us living above you" and who "couldn't stand such a young beautiful couple being far more successful than you ever will be".

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