Chloë Grace Moretz isn’t your average teenager.
The 18-year-old has spent the decade becoming one of the Hollywood’s most reliable leading ladies in movies like “Carrie,” “Kick-Ass” and “If I Stay.”
But, as she explained in the February issue of Marie Claire, despite this unprecedented run of success, she still has to deal with some of the same problems as her decidedly less famous peers, namely trying to ignore criticism lobbed at her (often anonymously) on social media.
“I felt fat; I felt not pretty,” she says of how the tweets and posts affected her when she was younger. “I felt like I didn’t really know who I was. I was so confused; I was scared. I had bad acne. I felt incredibly insecure.”
But the actress, who stars in upcoming sci-fi action flick “The 5th Wave,” eventually realized she had to do what she’s done through out her life — not let the opinions and views of others hold her back.
“I’m so free now. I don’t know what happened, but when I turned 17, this huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. I’m so open; I have a good time; I don’t worry about what people say about me,” she told the magazine. “I know who I am, who I want to be, what I want to portray myself as, what I want people to think of me.”
It’s obviously worked, too, as Moretz’s meteoric career shows no signs of slowing down.