Millie Bobby Brown Fired Back At Online Trolls Who Criticized Her Current Appearance

Millie Bobby Brown is not eleven — pun intended.

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Sure, she might've been that age when she first played the psychokinetic wonder named Eleven in Netflix's Stranger Things, but that was almost 10 years ago. Do the math.

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Alas, the cesspool of negativity that plagues social media more often than not refused to use any logic or simple elementary school math and criticized Millie for her current appearance in a Dec. 29 mirror selfie.

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The 20-year-old actor posted a dolled-up selfie with her Louis Vuitton bag, iPhone charm, floral dress, and red lipstick, and instead of just leaving a compliment or keeping it moving, several detractors took an opportunity to speak on her appearance.

"Millie's google history : 'How to look 65 when you are 16,'" one user wrote.

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"U look 35 what happened??" another user wrote.

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Like her Stranger Things character, Millie defeated the bad guys with a flick-of-the-wrist when she responded in her Instagram stories on Jan. 1.

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"Women grow!!" Millie wrote. "Not sorry about it :)"

Text on image reads: "women grow!! not sorry about it :)"

Millie shut that down real quick.

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Despite the unnecessarily disgusting comments, there was a lot of love and praise for Millie's mirror selfie, including a series of white hearts from her husband, Jake Bongiovi.

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After three years of dating, Millie and Jake were married in a private ceremony on May 18, 2024. They had a second, larger wedding in Tuscany, Italy.

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Christy Carlson Romano said what all of us millennials were thinking. "Babe I think we're sisters..." because the actors definitely have some similarities.

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I see it.

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And, of course, Millie's fans came in loud and proud in defense of the Enola Holmes star.

"Omg guys can yall just let a girl breathe," one fan wrote.

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Another fan wrote, "Y'all. She's not a kid anymore. You're still expecting her to look like baby Eleven. She's not."

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This person said she's "aged like fine wine," and people who say differently are tripping.

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Another person pointed out that she's obviously "pursing her lips and sucking her cheeks" in the selfie, which is changing her appearance.

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"Can we normalise not talking about how celebrities look and normalise getting jobs instead??" another person asked.

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And finally, my favorite response was someone recognizing that she wasn't using a Samsung Galaxy phone. If you don't know why that's funny, watch this or this.

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