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Natalie Portman Reflects On Being “Really Sexualized” As Child Actor: “A Long Lolita Phase”


After making her onscreen debut at 11, Natalie Portman quickly learned to separate herself from her public image.

The Oscar winner recently opened up about being subjected to “a long Lolita phase” when she was “really sexualized” as a child actor, making her debut performance in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional. “I’ve talked about it a little before—about how, as a kid, I was really sexualized, which I think happens to a lot of young girls who are onscreen. As a teenager, Portman also starred in such films as Beautiful Girls(1996), Mars Attacks!

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