Zendaya talked about becoming the “breadwinner” as a child star and how she wished she went to school, after getting started working in Hollywood at age 13 and never getting to attend high school.
In a Vogue article, the 27-year-old actress — born Zendaya Coleman — admitted she has “complicated feelings about kids and fame and being in the public eye, or being a child actor,” noting there’s “cases of it being detrimental…”
“And I think only now, as an adult, am I starting to go, Oh, okay, wait a minute: I’ve only ever done what I’ve known, and this is all I’ve known,” Zendaya explained.
“I’m almost going through my angsty teenager phase now, because I didn’t really have the time to do it before,” she added. “I felt like I was thrust into a very adult position: I was becoming the breadwinner of my family very early, and there was a lot of…