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Millie Bobby Brown Opens Up About Child Stardom: 'I Don't Have Many Friends'
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The "Stranger Things" star is all grown up and newly married but said she "missed out on a few things" in a new interview about her unorthodox childhood.
Millie Bobby Brown is all grown up, but she recently expressed how her childhood fame led to her missing out on “a few things.”
The “Stranger Things” star was only 11 years old when she was aptly cast as Eleven, the human science experiment bestowed with telekinetic powers, and while the 20-year-old is now a married woman, she feels her early stardom prompted some arrested development.
“I don’t have many friends, because of who I am,” Brown told Vanity Fair for a cover story published Wednesday. “I didn’t go to school, so I don’t have the best social skills when it comes to people my own age and friendships. I struggle with that quite a bit.”
“I missed out on a few things,” she continued. “But I’m working through them.”
Child stardom has certainly had a disastrous impact on untold celebrities over the decades. And like those before her, Brown has had to navigate much of her life in the public eye, with trivial confessions about not being the most avid movie watcher leading to criticism against her on social media or innocent selfies prompting backlash about her looks.