Child star Matilda received love letters from men aged 50+ | Entertainment

entertainment">“Journalists asked me who I thought was the sexiest actor and talked about Hugh Grant’s arrest,” said Mara, who was eight years old when the actor was arrested for having sex with a prostitute. “I was already asked in interviews at the age of six if I had a boyfriend.”

entertainment">She was also confronted with indecent behavior outside the media. “It was cute when other ten-year-olds wrote me letters saying they were on me. It wasn’t when fifty-year-old men did that. I was not even 12 years old when pictures of me were posted on foot fetish sites. My head was photoshopped for child pornography. And every time I was ashamed to death. ”

entertainment">Mara writes her piece partly as a result of the recently published documentary about Britney Spears, in which she recognized much of her own childhood. She states that she herself had an easier time, not only because she was never as famous as Britney, but mainly because her family was behind her and tried to keep her as normal as possible. “I had to share a room with my sister, I didn’t go to a private school, I was with the Boy Scout. If someone called me a star, I had to tell them that I was an actor and stars are things you see in the sky. My family always supported me and I knew that if I wanted to get out of the spotlight, I always had a safe place at home and at school. ”

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