Redeem now - Chloë Grace Moretz has been open about her experiences with body-shaming in Hollywood.
- In a recent interview with The Sunday Times Style, she said she considered getting breast implants when she was 16 years old, after a push-up bra was left in her trailer.
- "Those little things were insidious," she told The Times. "Even though you can brush them off, you still internalize them. They make you question yourself."
Chloë Grace Moretz has been busy making a name for herself as an actress since age 7, but the 21-year-old star isn't afraid to critique the business.
"I've had to look at Hollywood my whole life," she recently told The Sunday Times Style magazine. "The people I've been comparing myself to are people who are not real."
In fact, Moretz recounted a specific instance that made her "question herself" and even made her consider getting plastic surgery as a teenager. She told the magazine that, when she was 16 years old, someone had left a push-up bra with "chicken cutlets" (silicone inserts) in her trailer on her first day filming a new movie.
"I was, like, 'Where did these come from?'" she said. "Those little things were insidious. Even though you can brush them off, you still internalize them. They make you question yourself and think, 'Well, maybe I am unhappy with the size of my breasts.'"
Although she clarified in the interview that she never went through with getting breast implants, she described her experience as a teenager in Hollywood as riddled with insecurities and sexism.
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"It wasn't until I was 14 that I was confronted with this shocking realization that 'Oh, I'm not seen as equal. I'm not listened to in a meeting where there are male counterparts to my left and right, even though I've made more movies than both of them,'" she told The Times.
"That was something I had to really grapple with," she continued. "I realized I'd been dealing with misogyny all my life. 'Just shut up and look pretty, why don't you smile enough?'"
In the wide-ranging interview, Moretz also condemned Instagram as "super-regressive," declared she could never "just be a girlfriend" in a role, and said she's "not a big fan of PDA in general" — which many have taken to be a swipe at her ex-boyfriend, Brooklyn Beckham, and his new girlfriend.
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