Millie Bobby Brown on Fame and Online Bullying: "Who Do They Need Me to Be For Them?"

Millie Bobby Brown has already spent years dealing with the intense pressures of fame, all since taking on the role of Eleven in Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” In the past, the 18-year-old star has been transparent about how she handles life in the spotlight and its detriment (case in point: the hypersexualization she’s endured since coming of age). However, in her September cover interview for Allure, Brown gets candid about how people’s perception of her has impacted the way she views herself.

“It’s really hard to be hated on when you don’t know who you are yet,” she told the outlet. “So it’s like, ‘What do they hate about me? Cause I don’t know who I am.’ It’s almost like, ‘Okay, I’m going to try being this today.’ [And then they say], ‘Oh, no, I hate that’ . . . you just start shutting down because you’re like, ‘Who am I meant to be? Who do they need me to be for them?'”

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