Kiernan Shipka is on the cover of the April 2019 Digital Issue of Glamour UK, out now.
Here’s what the 19-year-old Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star had to say…
On how she has dealt with the common teenage concerns around body image while being in the pressure cooker of the public eye: “Growing up I felt pretty in touch with myself, but if you’re going to red carpet after red carpet, it takes work to love yourself and to find the best version of yourself outside of this world of ideals, that are so bonkers in so many ways.”
On not worrying about being a “child star” and the pressure that can bring: “I don’t think, ‘oh god what if I’m pegged as this or that?’ It was more like, ‘oh my God is there going to something out there that’s going to fulfill me because I’m really young and there aren’t a lot of roles for 15 or 16-year-olds that have that kind of quality.’ That was the concern.”
On how she has had to work at being “normal”: “By the end of the Mad Men, I had been on it for a longer period of my life than I hadn’t…growing up and being in the industry whilst trying my best to maintain a very normal life outside of it – which I’m lucky that I did…I was lucky that I was in an environment that embraced growing up and let me figure out who I was.”
For more from Kiernan, visit GlamourMagazine.co.uk.
