I feel so bad for Millie Bobby Brown. She’s been sexualized since the minute she entered the industry and gained fame through “Stranger Things” (notice how her male cast mates are allowed to retain their youthful and goofy personalities, whereas she’s forced into wearing makeup and clothes that give off a “mature vibe”) and now she’s being groomed, in real time, by a 31 year old man (who also has an 18 year old girlfriend), and no one is doing or saying anything about it. This is why feminists always say that the sexualization of female celebrities begins young and why it’s connected to them facing sexual violence from men within the industry, and why those men later get away with it.
I am more and more convinced that children and teenagers just shouldn’t be in the industry, for their own protection. Especially young girls.
By the way, Beyoncé had been groomed by Jay Z since she was 15. So this happened to Beyoncé as well (and no one said anything about it), and it’s happening to Millie now, and probably to countless other teenage girls in the industry.
Natalie Portman, following Leon: The Professional
Glad someone brought up Natalie Portman up because after Leon, there was some seriously fucked up shit. People were sending rape fantasy letters, a radio station was counting down to her 18th birthday (aka she’s legal to bang and “not be weird”), and sexualized her body as she went through puberty. She talks about it here:
Natalie Portman opens up about experiencing “sexual terrorism” after starring in ‘Leon’ at 13 – NME
She was 13 years old. 13! We shouldn’t even pretend nothing like that is happening to child stars now
And of course there’s Britney Spears. I was in grade school when she was first getting famous, and I remember how creepy it was to find out there was a countdown clock for when she turned 18, and how there was nonstop chatter over whether this girl who was only 3 years older than me had gotten breast implants. They wouldn’t leave her alone, and it was super gross.
Emma Watson is the example that immediately springs to mind for me. I remember overhearing someone, probably my mum, saying that there were grown men who were waiting until she turned 16 (not even 18, because the age of consent in the UK is 16) so it would be acceptable to say gross things about her,
“I remember on my 18th birthday I came out of my birthday party and photographers laid down on the pavement and took photographs up my skirt, which were then published on the front of the English tabloid [newspapers] the next morning. If they had published the photographs 24 hours earlier they would have been illegal, but because I had just turned 18 they were legal.” – Emma Watson
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