Millie Bobby Brown was only 10 when she auditioned for the role of Jane ‘Eleven’ Ives on the Netflix hit Stranger Things. However, seven years later, her fans can’t accept the fact that she’s not a little girl. “I’m only 17, but at the end of the day, I’m learning to be a woman. I’m learning to be a young woman,” she told MTV News in a Wednesday video interview. “So being a young girl, people watch you grow up, right? And they’ve almost become invested in your growth and your journey. But they aren’t ready to accept
the fact that you’re growing up.”
Brown noted that her fashion choices are often what upset fans the most. “So I wear a crop top and people are like, ‘She’s 10.’ I’m like, ‘No…I am 17.’ That’s a thing that girls do,” the Godzilla vs Kong star said. “Or I wear high heels. Or I wear an outfit to an award show and they’re like, ‘She looks 50.’ No, it’s because you’ve watched
me since I was 10. That’s why you think that.”
“I think that’s what I found has been quite difficult:
the transitioning period. They’re not accepting it and I’ve completely accepted it. You know, I’m ready. I’m like, ‘It’s been a while. Let me wear a high heel!’ I’m not going to be playing those young girls anymore and it’s kind of like, I have 50 million people like my parents,” she said. “My parents are like, ‘Yay! Thank God. You’re 17.’
Like, ‘Put on a pair of high heels. Let’s go!”
