Cole Sprouse Slams Critics Of Disney's 'Heavily Sexualized' Female Child Stars!

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Cole Sprouse is not here for the public’s response to Disney Channel stars going “nuts” after soaring to fame as children!

The Moonshot lead first shot to fame in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody alongside his twin brother Dylan Sprouse. But he’s been acting since he was just 6-months-old in hits like Grace Under Fire, Big Daddy, and Friends.

So if anyone was going to struggle through as a teen, it should have been him, right? Wrong, according to Cole! In a new interview with the New York Times published on Monday, the actor opened up about why he hates being complimented for growing up in the public eye “unscathed” and why he and his brother NEVER had it as hard as the other stars in his orbit. Related: Cole Sprouse Makes Rare Comment About Lili Reinhart Relationship! Reflecting on the major differences between his experience versus the successful female celebs who were also popular on the network at the time — think Suite Life co-stars Ashley Tisdale and Brenda Song as well as Disney starlets Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Demi Lovato (who came out as non-binary last year) — the now-29-year-old expressed: That’s not to say he hasn’t dealt with his own “trauma” following his Disney days, he just recognizes that his hurdles were very different than those the women around him had to jump over.

And he can’t stand when he hears the general public judging these girls. Sprouse explained: Fame is a trauma. Huh. Wow. He continued: Whoa!