Anne, 12 jaar, wordt een groot succes | Anne van der Steen ⁷⁺

Anne wants to be a resounding success. But how can you appear prettier, older, tougher and smarter than you are? How can you belong? Impress? What attitude should you adopt? And is that lying? Or should you just be yourself? And what exactly is being yourself?

As a child, you try your best to be what the adults around you want you to be. You wear the clothes your mother buys you because they suit you. If your father says you are a really good football player, then you try to be one.

And when your inner voice tells you that you are too childish, too boring, too smart, too catty, too boyish or too girly, then you will change yourself. You're going to give yourself an attitude. Pleasen. And then, one day, your outside may no longer match your inside.