When she was just 13 years old, Millie Bobby Brown created her family-run production company PCMA, which she utilizes to platform women’s stories.
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She and her sister Paige actively scout books about women and girls to adapt into movies — including the incredibly successful Enola Holmes franchise, in which Millie stars in.
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The teen has also been proactive in using her influence to benefit women across the world after she became the youngest person ever to be appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador at the age of 14.
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One of the ways that Millie utilizes this role is by working to expand access to education and menstrual care to girls around the globe.
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However, the Stranger Things star has now admitted that she didn’t consider herself to be a feminist until recently, and the way that she discovered this part of her identity is pretty unique, to say the least.
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In a new interview with Glamour magazine, which was published on Monday, Millie says that she didn’t realize that she is a feminist until she visited a psychic who told her that she is.
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“She credits her feminist awakening to a visit to a psychic, who informed her that she was, in fact, a feminist,” Glamour reports.
Millie is said to have then gone home and promptly googled the movement, asking the search engine, “How do I know if I’m a feminist?”
She then read various articles and books about the cause, and tells the publication that at this point she “really grasped the idea of feminism and what it means to me.“ Millie goes on to add: “Ultimately it’s about opportunity.”
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And while Millie’s comments clearly came from a place of good intentions, many can’t quite wrap their heads around the way her feminism emerged.
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Reacting to a celebrity news tweet that read: “Millie Bobby Brown reveals to Glamour that she credits her feminist awakening to a visit to a psychic, who informed her that she was, in fact, a feminist,” one person wrote: “truly one of the best sentences i’ve ever read.”
“sentence got crazier with every word,” someone else echoed. One more said of Millie: “she's the funniest comedian we have and we should be grateful.”
In another popular tweet, somebody has changed Whoopi Goldberg’s famous line from the 1990 movie Ghost to: “Millie, you a feminist girl,” with Whoopi playing a psychic in the film.
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“we need to hear from the psychic who informed millie bobby brown that she was, in fact, a feminist,” somebody else tweeted.
we need to hear from the psychic who informed millie bobby brown that she was, in fact, a feminist
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“Millie Bobby Brown is one of the funniest celebrities out there,” another user wrote. “She constantly brings the pop culture moments and entertainment everywhere she goes… what’s not to love.”
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In keeping with Millie’s newly-established identity, the star enthusiastically revealed that “the theme is feminism” when discussing her company’s upcoming movie Damsel, in which Millie will play a dragon-fighting princess.
