Millie Bobby Brown can’t be Eleven endlessly — regardless of how indignant that makes some folks.
Brown was only a youngster when she was forged in “Stranger Things” in 2015, however is now a 20-year-old married lady, she reportedly reminded folks on Wednesday after being shamed on social media for merely rising up.
The actor shared an innocuous mirror selfie on Instagram Monday wherein she confirmed off her flashy ring and a mini Louis Vuitton purse. But it surely prompted vitriolic feedback that included “How to look 65 when you are 16,” “MILLIE WHAT HAPPENEDDDD,” and easily, “42.”
Brown reportedly addressed the backlash in a since-expired Instagram Story on New 12 months’s Day and wrote, “Women grow!! Not sorry about it :).”
The actor, who tied the knot final yr with Jake Bongiovi, singer Jon Bon Jovi’s son, turns 21 subsequent month.
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Some commenters on Brown’s put up accused her of getting cosmetic surgery, presumably as a result of she was pursing her lips and sucking in her cheeks within the selfie she shared.
The British actor’s followers defended her, nonetheless.
“She’s not a kid anymore. You’re still expecting her to look like baby Eleven. She’s not,” wrote one person within the feedback Wednesday. One other commented: “The amount of people who can’t tell shes just pursing her lips and sucking her cheeks is killing me.”
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Brown was aptly 11 when Matt and Ross Duffer forged her in “Stranger Things,” however because of a number of years-long breaks between seasons, the forged of former youngster actors has grown up earlier than the sequence is about to finish for good.
Nevertheless, none of Brown’s male costars has obtained the identical criticism about growing older regardless of rising up alongside her.
Brown will reprise her “Stranger Things” character one final time when the fifth and closing season of Netflix’s flagship sequence is launched, which is predicted later this yr.
