Article updated on 13/04/2022: After Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown confessed that 'inappropriate comments, sexualisation, and unnecessary insults’ led to 'pain and insecurity’, the actor has spoken out about the way people comment about her now she's 18.
Appearing on The Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Frances-White and Susan Wokoma, the actor said that coming of age 'can be really overwhelming'. 'I have definitely been dealing with that, more within the last two weeks of turning 18.
Definitely seeing a difference between the way people act and the way the press and social media have reacted to me coming of age,' she said.
Brown stressed that her age 'shouldn't change anything'. 'But it's gross, and it's true,' she added. 'I think it's just a very good representation of what's going on in the world and how young girls are sexualised.
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