Millie Bobby Brown has just turned our world upside down.
The actress revealed that while the public knows her as Millie Bobby Brown — since her career took off on “Stranger Things” at the age of 12, that isn’t her real name.
“Is it Millie Bobby Brown?” Chris Pratt asked the “Enola Holmes” vet during an interview with BuzzFeed while promoting their new film “The Electric State.”
“My middle name is Bonnie,” Brown replied.
“Millie Bobby Bonnie Brown?” Pratt, 45, then asked, to which the 21-year-old quipped, “No, it’s no Bobby. It’s Millie Bonnie Brown.”
“Really?” the “Guardians of the Galaxy” star asked, shocked.
“I’ve never told anyone that,” Brown confessed. “You heard it here first.”
Still confused by the revelation, Pratt inquired, “Your middle name is Bonnie but you just changed it to Bobby for your stage name?”
“For sh-ts and giggles,” Brown teased, before confirming it was a stage name.
“Oh sh-t!” Pratt exclaimed.
But along with a different middle name, Brown recently took on a new last name. Last May, the actress tied the knot with Jake Bongiovi, taking on the name of Millie Bobby Brown Bongiovi.
And despite largely keeping their relationship out of the spotlight, the star took a moment to gush over her other half last month.
“Happy valentines to the most handsome husband that’s ever lived. I love you more than anything,” Brown captioned an Instagram shot of herself hugging the model, 22.
The author, meanwhile, has been on a press tour for her and Pratt’s new sci-fi/adventure Netflix movie over the past few weeks.
Along the way, Brown has shared an important message with followers. After a barrage of negative comments flooded her Instagram over her appearance during the film’s premiere red carpet, Brown called out the hate.
“I want to take a moment to address something that I think is bigger than just me, something that affects every young woman who grows up under public scrutiny,” she captioned a lengthy Instagram video with the same sentiment on March 3.
“I think it’s necessary to speak up about this. I started in this industry when I was 10 years old. I grew up in front of the world, and for some reason, people can’t seem to grow with me. Instead, they act like I’m supposed to stay frozen in time, like I should still look the way I did on Stranger Things Season 1. And because I don’t, I’m now a target.”
“This is bullying. The fact that adult writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my body, my choices, it’s disturbing,” she continued. “The fact that some of these articles are written by women? Even worse. We always talk about supporting and uplifting young women, but when the time comes, it seems easier to tear them down for clicks.’
But one thing is certain: Brown isn’t going to change for anyone.
“I refuse to apologize for growing up. I refuse to make myself smaller to fit the unrealistic expectations of people who can’t handle seeing a girl become a woman,” she concluded. “I will not be shamed for how I look, how I dress, or how I present myself. We have become a society where it’s so much easier to criticize than it is to pay a compliment.”
