Rowan Blanchard Is a Little Different Than You Might Remember
The 19-year-old actress opens up about her current relationship with activism, the parallels she feels between her life and Britney Spears’, and her digital partnership with H&M x Simone Rocha.
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Rowan Blanchard was woke before we even knew what being awake meant. By the age of 13, the bubbly actress was a keynote speaker at UN Women's HeForShe conference. In 2014, she openly discussed her struggles with depression, creating a public discourse around destigmatizing mental illness, and in 2017, she spoke at the Women’s March in L.A. She spent the better part of her teens using her social platform to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and rally for intersectional feminism, and to put things simply, she became the de facto face of youth activism in the late 2010s. With every tweet, she strayed further from the Disney box that propped her up. But as she enters adulthood, Blanchard is looking to reconstruct that box, to some degree, in the form of setting boundaries—and asserting herself on her own terms.