Millie Bobby Brown Hits Back at Tabloids Saying ‘She Looks 40’: ‘You Did Meet Me When I Was 10’ and ‘My Face Grew. What Do You Want Me to Do About That?’

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Ellise Shafer Millie Bobby Brown is continuing to speak out against the tabloid media, particularly when it comes to criticizing her appearance in relation to her age.

In the latest episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, the 21-year-old “Stranger Things” star told host Alex Cooper that the press “love to go in on me with certain things,” including saying “that I look a lot older” and pointing out changes in her British accent. “A thing that I get a lot is like, ‘Oh my God, she looks like 40,'” Brown said. “And I’m like, well yeah, you did meet me when I was 10, so I understand.

Now I’m 21, it’s been 10 years. She grows. My face like, grew. What do you want me to do about that?” However, Brown said that the constant scrutiny “really actually doesn’t bother me.” “I wish I could be like, ‘You know what, it does get to me.’ It used to get to me, it did … And I remember trying to change myself to please the masses,” she said. “And actually now, I’m in a place where, yeah, my accent does change.

My face does grow. I do wear a lot of makeup. It’s just the kind of person I am.” On March 3, Brown posted a video on her Instagram calling out specific members of the press for “bullying” her and “dissecting my face, my body, my choices.” “I started in this industry when I was 10 years old,” Brown wrote in the caption to the video. “I grew up in front of the world, and for some reason, people can’t seem to grow with me.