Millie Bobby Brown Fires Back at Mom-Shamers: 'Stay in Your Lane'
Millie Bobby Brown is not here for the parenting police criticizing her motherhood choices.
“I was like, ‘This is vicious, you are vicious,’ and I don’t have time for angry women that just need to bring you down, especially when it comes to motherhood,” Brown, 22, stated on the Thursday, June 11, episode of the “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. “I’ve never experienced anything like this. It’s like, I can always deal with the, ‘Oh, my God, you showed your nipples? What a bitch!’ I’m like, ‘Whatever.’ I don’t care about that, but when you’re like, ‘You didn’t put a hat on your baby?’ I’m like, ‘Try putting a hat on my baby. I dare you [to] put a beanie on her.’”
Brown continued, “Stay in your own lane, put a hat on your baby and put a sock in your mouth. Sorry, the English is coming out of me, but it’s so true. Like, shut up.”
Brown and her husband, Jake Bongiovi, welcomed their first child in August 2025.
“This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,” Brown and Bongiovi, 24, wrote in a joint Instagram statement, without revealing their daughter’s name. “We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter in both peace and privacy. And then there were three!”
Brown and Bongiovi now try to raise their little girl out of the spotlight, though they haven't been immune from receiving judgment from social media users.
“I’ve dealt with this mostly online, but when I do experience it in person, a lot of people will be like, ‘That’s a really big piece. Are you going to let her eat that?’” Brown told podcast host Kylie Kelce. “I know what my baby can eat. I will draw the line where necessary.”
As for the Enola Holmes star, she’s had practice dealing with haters.
“I have really thick skin. I’ve really never cared. A lot of people have a lot to say about, ‘Oh, you got married too young, you had a baby too young, you did this, you did that [and] why are you wearing that?’” Brown stated. “I’m at a point where I don’t care about myself. I don’t care what you say about me, I’m very used to it. It’s, like, growing up with that, it’s second nature to you.”
She continued, “However, I do have a problem with it happening to other young girls. That’s where I’m very lucky — I have a great support system and a healthier mindset about it, but I’m very aware that others might not.”
Brown’s support system, including her parents and her in-laws, Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley, also decline to offer unsolicited parenting advice.
“They just let me live. They’re really good with that,” the actress said. “Then, they’re like, ‘I love the way you did that.’ I need the validation [because] it’s helpful to hear that I did something good.”
