Natalie Portman has spoken out about how in a review she read when she was 13 years old, she was described as having "breast buds."
When she was just 11 years old, director Luc Besson cast the actor in her first film, Léon.
She went on to star in a number of important Hollywood productions while still an adolescent.
In an interview with The Sunday Times Style, the 41-year-old woman talked about
how she feels uncomfortable with the way she was sexualized by the media at the time.
She stated to the publication, "I believe it was very typical at the time.
The author claimed that some of it was caused by the roles that were being written and
some of it was due to the way journalists believed they had a right to write about it.
Portman went on to mention a particular review.
I have a faint memory of reading a self-evaluation when I was around 13 years old that mentioned my breast buds.
The actor went on to explain how as she got older, she made the decision to "put up all these defences" and
stopped reading any screenplays involving sex or love scenes.
She went on, "To be defined in that way seemed to be a weak and, in some ways, less honourable attitude.
She remembered believing, "I won't be treated in that manner.
In another discussion, the actor touched on how the audience reacted to her physical transformation for her role in Thor: Love and Thunder.
She said, "It's unique and delightful to be given the burden of growing larger as a woman."
The fact that most of the physical adjustments we are required to make are to be as minimal as possible has an emotional and cultural impact.