Millie Bobby Brown opened up about the criticisms she’s received online over her evolving physical appearance, saying the negative comments no longer bother her the way they used to.
“The press, they love to go in on me sometimes with certain things. I know that obviously people say that I look a lot older,” Brown told Alex Cooper on her “Call Her Daddy” podcast Wednesday. “That’s a thing that I get a lot. It’s like, ‘Oh, my God, she looks, like, 40,’ and I’m like, ‘Well yeah. Did you meet me when I was 10?’ So I understand. Now I’m 21, it’s been 10 years. She grows. My face like, grew. What do you want me to do about that?”
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The actress continued, adding that the same goes for the remarks made about her accent.
“That, and like my accent thing. People like to pick on certain things that I say and do. I don’t want for any person growing up in the industry, but it really actually doesn’t bother me,” Brown said. “I wish I could be like, ‘It does get to me’ — it used to get to me. It did, I grew up feeling really, really — it got to me and I remember trying to change myself to please the masses … And actually now, I’m in a place where, yeah, my accents does change. My face does grow. I do wear a lot of makeup. It’s just the kind of person I am. I like that. It’s fun for me. You’re not going to tell me how to be a girl, you’re not going to tell me how to be a woman. Like, that is not the world I live in.”
Brown’s response came after the “Stranger Things” star took to Instagram earlier this month to address several Daily Mail write-ups and journalists who’ve recently taken aim at her appearance.
“The fact that adult writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my body, my choices, it’s disturbing,” she said in her video post. “The fact that some of these articles are written by women? Even worse.”
She closed out her post saying she doesn’t plan to issue any apology for growing up.
“Disillusioned people can’t handle seeing a girl become a woman on her terms, not theirs,” Brown said. I refuse to apologize for growing up. I refuse to make myself smaller to fit the unrealistic expectations of people who can’t handle seeing a girl become a woman. I will not be shamed for how I look, how I dress or how I present myself.”
