Millie Bobby Brown is all grown up, however she lately expressed how her childhood fame led to her lacking out on “a few things.”
The “Stranger Things” star was solely 11 years outdated when she was aptly forged as Eleven, the human science experiment bestowed with telekinetic powers, and whereas the 20-year-old is now a married lady, she feels her early stardom prompted some arrested growth.
“I don’t have many friends, because of who I am,” Brown informed Vainness Honest for a canopy story printed Wednesday. “I didn’t go to school, so I don’t have the best social skills when it comes to people my own age and friendships. I struggle with that quite a bit.”
“I missed out on a few things,” she continued. “But I’m working through them.”
Youngster stardom has definitely had a disastrous affect on untold celebrities over the many years. And like these earlier than her, Brown has needed to navigate a lot of her life within the public eye, with trivial confessions about not being essentially the most avid film watcher resulting in criticism in opposition to her on social media or harmless selfies prompting backlash about her appears to be like.
Elsewhere in her Vainness Honest interview, Brown mentioned being intentional about permitting folks to get to know her.
“I don’t allow many people into my life, and when I do, I think it should be super moderated,” she mentioned. “I started this really young, and I felt that the press specifically was very, very harsh on me. And so I just like to make sure that I’m advocating for myself.”
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She additionally talked about getting married to Jake Bongiovi, son of rock star Jon Bon Jovi. The pair tied the knot final Could after three years of relationship, and so they’ve since moved onto a farm in Georgia the place Brown spends a lot of her time feeding a child goat and fostering canine.
“We were pretty united going into it,” the actor informed Vainness Honest. “We talked about our political views, what kind of family we want to build, the kind of home we want to live in, the kind of relationship we’re looking for, the kind of careers we want.”
“It’s such an important decision, and we wanted to make sure we were making the right one,” she continued. “I knew I was. It always felt right with him.”
