{"id":153732,"date":"2025-03-04T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/millie-bobby-brown-condemns-bullying-of-her-aged-up-looks\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:56:36","slug":"millie-bobby-brown-condemns-bullying-of-her-aged-up-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/millie-bobby-brown-condemns-bullying-of-her-aged-up-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"Millie Bobby Brown Condemns &#8216;Bullying&#8217; Of Her Aged-Up Looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Millie Bobby Brown is publicly clapping back at critics of her styling choices.<\/p>\n<p>For years, fans have observed that she styles herself to look considerably older than her actual age.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/02\/millie-bobby-brown-britney-spears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s blonde makeover<\/a>, some remarked that the barely-21-year-old would not look out of place at a <em>Real Housewives<\/em> Reunion special.<\/p>\n<p>Well, MBB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/01\/millie-bobby-brown-claps-back-at-haters-who-claim-she-looks-way-older-in-latest-selfie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saw the criticism<\/a>. She\u2019s had enough, and says that it crosses the line. Is she right?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Bobby Brown looks blonde and not quite her age on February 24, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-520588 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_01-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Millie Bobby Brown attends the world premiere of Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Electric State\u201d at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on February 24, 2025.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-are-people-bullying-millie-bobby-brown-over-her-appearance\">Are people bullying Millie Bobby Brown over her appearance?<\/h2>\n<p>Millie Bobby Brown excited a lot of people by going blonde.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it fun to see someone rocking a \u201990s look (even if that someone did not yet exist in the \u201990s), but the blonde \u2018do had people speculating that MBB might play Britney Spears in the upcoming biopic.<\/p>\n<p>However, there were critics who described Brown as appearing to have \u201caged far beyond her years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Bobby Brown poses on February 27, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-520589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Bobby Brown poses on February 27, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-520589 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_02-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Millie Bobby Brown attends \u201cThe Electric State\u201d premiere at Callao Cinema on February 27, 2025.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: Patricia J. Garcinuno\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taking to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DGwZgLXSJuH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> page on the evening of March 3, Millie Bobby Brown called out headlines about what she has \u201cdone to her face\u201d and about her being \u201cmistaken for someone\u2019s mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in front of the world, and for some reason, people can\u2019t seem to grow with me,\u201d the actress, who catapulted to instant fame as a tween on <em>Stranger Things<\/em>, lamented in her post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, they act like I\u2019m supposed to stay frozen in time,\u201d Brown described. \u201cLike I should look the way I did on \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 Season 1. And now because I don\u2019t, I\u2019m a target.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DGwZgLXSJuH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-is-this-about-more-than-millie-bobby-brown\">Is this about more than Millie Bobby Brown?<\/h2>\n<p>Some, including both fans and critics of Millie Bobby Brown, might say that this is a critique of her styling choices. But she describes it as part of a broader set of unrealistic standards by which society judges women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that adult writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my body, my choices, it\u2019s disturbing,\u201d she characterized. (Notably, <em>she <\/em>is an adult, and most article writers outside of high school newspapers are adults)<\/p>\n<p>MBB added: \u201cThe fact that some of these articles are written by women? Even worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Bobby Brown is styled to look older than she is on February 24 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-520590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Bobby Brown is styled to look older than she is on February 24 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-520590 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_03-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Millie Bobby Brown  attends the world premiere of Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Electric State\u201d at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on February 24, 2025.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI refuse to apologize for growing up,\u201d Millie Bobby Brown, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2024\/03\/millie-bobby-brown-married\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">married<\/a> in May of 2024, affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s do better,\u201d she suggested. \u201cNot just for me, but for every young girl who deserves to grow up without fear of being torn apart for simply existing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her caption, Brown called out some articles and their writers by name, seemingly in an effort to shame them. Countless \u201clikes\u201d flowed into the article on Instagram \u2014 including from A-list actors, some of whom have famously faced misogynistic attacks on their looks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Bobby Brown and handsome husband Jake Bongiovi on February 24, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-520591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Millie Bobby Brown and handsome husband Jake Bongiovi on February 24, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-520591 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0304_milliebobbybrown_04-scaled.jpg\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Millie Bobby Brown and husband Jake Bongiovi attend the world premiere of Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Electric State\u201d at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on February 24, 2025.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-is-she-right-yes-but-maybe-a-little-bit-no\">Is she right? Yes \u2026 but maybe a little bit \u2018no\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Millie Bobby Brown is right on the money when she points out that women are held to unrealistic, often unattainable standards. This is true outside of the entertainment industry, but even more true within it.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, she does make styling choices \u2014 as she did even as a teen \u2014 that make her look older than she is. In some cases, older by decades.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not talking about wearing a dress out of another decade. It\u2019s makeup, hair, and everything. She has every right to style herself however she likes, but when she wears a conspicuous look to red carpet events, it <em>cannot <\/em>be a surprise when people discuss it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DEMShulzDDo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>If, for example, Finn Wolfhard showed up to a red carpet event with his wardrobe, hair, and makeup looking like he\u2019s nearly 50, people would comment on that, too. <\/p>\n<p>That said, it would be less than Millie Bobby Brown, precisely because our society is so <em>weird <\/em>about women and their looks.<\/p>\n<p>So, like we said, she\u2019s mostly right. But some aspects of her point miss the mark.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/03\/millie-bobby-brown-response-styling-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 4 minutes Millie Bobby Brown is publicly clapping back at critics of her styling choices. For years, fans have observed that she styles herself to look considerably older than her actual age. After Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s blonde makeover, some remarked that the barely-21-year-old would not look out of place at a Real Housewives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}