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    Millie Bobby Brown slams media for scrutinizing her physique: ‘Get off my f—ing case. I’m 21’

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    Millie Bobby Brown attends the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Millie Bobby Brown attends the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
    Millie Bobby Brown on Feb. 23, 2025. Credit score:

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    Millie Bobby Brown is getting actually bored with folks speaking about her physique. The 21-year-old lately chatted with British Vogue, reflecting on her viral second in March, by which the Stranger Things star made headlines for blasting tabloids for "dissecting my face, my physique" and "my selections."

    On the time, the actress posted an Instagram video addressing the headlines speaking about her look throughout the press tour for her film, The Electric State. Brown blasted journalists for what she referred to as "bullying," lamenting that they should do higher than tearing younger girls down "for clicks."

    Trying again on the expertise months later, Brown admitted that she had been "crying each day" studying the headlines.

    Millie Bobby Brown attends "The Electric State" special screening at Battersea Power station on March 04, 2025 in London, England.
    Millie Bobby Brown attends 'The Electrical State' particular screening on March 4, 2025.

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    "'Oh my God, what has she completed along with her face? Why has she gone blonde? She seems 60 years previous!'" Brown stated, mocking the headlines that impressed her Instagram video. Whereas the actress stated she understands being within the public eye is an element and parcel with such intense scrutiny, she asserted that the headlines weren't the identical as the standard journalism.

    "I respect journalism. I really like studying articles on my favourite folks and listening to what they're as much as. I perceive that there's paparazzi, regardless that it's invasive, regardless that it seems like s— to me — I do know that's your job," she informed the outlet. "However don't, in your headline, slam me on the get-go. It’s so incorrect and it’s bullying, particularly to younger ladies who’re new to this trade and are already questioning every part about it."

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    Brown claimed she was "depressed for 3, 4 days," which was even noticeable to singer Sabrina Carpenter, whom Brown offered with an award on the BRIT Awards.

    "Really, all the time, her mentality may be very very similar to 'F— 'em,'" she remembered. "Which I knew inside me, however if you hear another person say it, you're like, 'Sure! That's it!'"

    Jon Bon Jovi reacts to being a first-time grandfather after Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi adopt baby Jon Bon Jovi at the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year Gala honoring Jon Bon Jovi held at The Los Angeles Convention Center on February 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California; Jake Bongiovi and Millie Bobby Brown attend the Netflix Enola Holmes 2 Premiere on October 27, 2022 in New York City 'Stranger Things' 2-hour series finale will play in movie theaters STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in STRANGER THINGS

    Getting the braveness to put up the defiant video was onerous, however Brown informed the outlet that she did it with greater than herself in thoughts.

    "It's, like, get off my f—ing case, you understand? I’m 21. I’m going to have enjoyable and play and be myself," Brown declared. "I can't silence the five hundred million folks behind their telephones. So what’s the reasonable route right here? I believe it's simply uplift and empower younger folks. Can we struggle again more durable? Can we instill self-love and confidence into ladies to have the ability to consider in themselves it doesn’t matter what anybody says? That I can do. That I’ll do."

    It's an particularly vital mission in Brown's thoughts since she grew to become a mom to slightly lady herself. The Damsel star and her husband Jake Bongiovi introduced the adoption of their child lady in August.

    Millie Bobby Brown attends a fan screening of "The Electric State" at The Paris Theatre on March 11, 2025 in New York City.
    Millie Bobby Brown attends fan screening of 'The Electrical State' on March 11, 2025.

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    True to the couple maintaining a low profile since revealing their "lovely subsequent chapter" as mother and father on social media, Brown informed British Vogue that she received't be sharing particulars about their child lady to guard her from the press.

    "For me, it's actually vital to guard her and her story till she's sufficiently old to probably someday share it herself," she stated. "It's not my place to purposefully put her within the highlight unwillingly. If she chooses to share her character someday with the world, like I did once I was younger, that's one thing we'd help."

    However proper now, Brown declared that as her mother and father, she and Bongiovi will chorus from sharing with the world till "she's able to determine for herself".

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