Shailene Woodley Explains Why Staying on 'Secret Life' Show Was One of the Hardest Things She's Ever Done

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Before Shailene Woodley became a movie star, she was the star of the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager and now she’s opening up about how difficult it was for her to work on that show. “When I signed onto Secret Life, I read [three] episodes and I signed a contract for six years. [Those episodes] all hit home.

I had friends in high school who were pregnant. It felt like everything that I wanted to be sending into the world,” the 28-year-old actress said in a new interview with Bustle.

The show ran for five seasons from 2008 to 2013 and over the years, the message of the series became a lot less progressive and characters were shamed for having intercourse and some vowed to save themselves until marriage. “There