On Millie Bobby Brown
Here’s what I looked like when I was 15:
And here’s what Millie Bobby Brown apparently looks like:
I can’t be alone in thinking something is not right here, yeah? Because I keep seeing pictures of this girl posing (or, more likely, being told to pose) in ways I don’t think a 15-year-old should. Standing around with windswept hair and a sultry gaze. It’s just not right.
I mean, look. This is ridiculous. It’s like she’s been deliberately made-up to look older.
And I can tell because she doesn’t look like that all the time. Or in Stranger Things, come to that.
This has been talked about before by the media, quite a lot in fact, but every time I see a new unnaturally-older-looking picture of Millie I remember the teen stars of my own childhood. When Emma Watson was playing Hermione there were “countdown til Emma is 18” clocks on the Internet, because you know, obviously then it would be alright. Britney Spears got paraded around and sexualized until she had a breakdown. Grown men were gross about the Olsen Twins. The Daily Star infamously commented on Charlotte Church’s breasts when she was still 15. And so on and so forth.
Some of those girls went on to suffer ongoing mental health issues, I remember that well. So does the whole world probably. I’m not saying it’s connected but god, can we just… stop? I know that fortunately we as a society have evolved enough to actually be trying to protect Millie’s generation of child actors now, but just… when she’s doing a photoshoot, let her smile like a normal kid?