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I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, 'Oh well, she works.'

I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.