The Heartbreaking Childhood of the World’s Most Famous Quintuplets

Ilana Quinn
8 min readOct 9, 2023

The Canadian government and North American pop culture exploited the “Dionne quints”

The Dionne quintuplets posing for a photo on their fourth birthday | Getty Images

Since the dawn of mass media, the public has been obsessed with making celebrities out of children. Consumers enjoy finding young people to fawn over, with producers generating mass amounts of merchandise and stories to profit from their images.

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Ilana Quinn

I am a university student who writes under a pseudonym about history, life and faith. https://linktr.ee/ilanaquinn