Millie Bobby Brown Opens Up About the 'Gross' Comments She's Gotten On Social Media Since Turning 18

Millie Bobby Brown is getting candid about growing up in the spotlight.

During an appearance on The Guilty Feminist podcast, the Stranger Things star shared that she has noticed a “gross” change in the comment she gets on social media since turning 18 in February.

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“I deal with the same things any 18-year-old is dealing with: navigating being an adult and having relationships and friendships, and it’s all of those things,” she told Deborah Frances-White and Susan Wokoma. “Being liked and trying to fit in, it’s all a lot, and you’re trying to find yourself while doing that. The only difference is that obviously I’m doing that in the public eye.”

She went on to acknowledge that growing up can be “really overwhelming,” adding: “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.”

Millie said that despite the shift, she thinks turning 18 “shouldn’t change anything.”

“But it’s gross, and it’s true,” she said, “I think it’s just a very good representation of what’s going on in the world and how young girls are sexualized. And so I have been dealing with that, but also have been dealing with that for forever.”

Her remarks echoed a post she shared to social media in 2020 after turning 16, where she discussed the “sexualization” and “unnecessary insults” she has experienced since starring on Stranger Things.

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