Bella Thorne revealed that she is not comfortable autographing all pH๏τos of herself.
The Midnight Sun actress, 25, shared a recent encounter she had with a male autograph seeker at the Sundance Film Festival where she declined signing the pH๏τos he handed her.
The star recalled the incident during which she was given racy pH๏τos of herself – some of which were taken when she was underage – and told The Hollywood Reporter she ‘didn’t like’ the situation.
‘I normally don’t tell them off but they offended me. It was this guy and he was shoving pH๏τos in front of me and I looked away for a second and looked back and there was a pH๏τo of me from my GQ magazine cover.’
‘It’s super sᴇxʏ and my ʙuтт is out and I’m wearing lingerie and I’m topless,’ she explained about the pH๏τos, which were part of the 2017 GQ Mexico cover spread
After she declined to sign the pH๏τo, the man continued to ask her to sing other content. ‘I said I wouldn’t sign that and he took it away and then put it back in front of me again. I said, “No, I’m not signing that.”‘
‘He pulled out another pH๏τo of a magazine with another sᴇxʏ image. He was like, “Come on, Bella. Sign it for me.” I didn’t like it. It was inappropriate.’
The actress stated that she was uncomfortable signing the images because they were taken when she was underage.
‘There was some stuff there from a Candies campaign that I did when I was 16 and it was clear that he wanted me to sign things that were viewed as sᴇxʏ and even underage and I was like, “Give me something else,”‘ she explained.
Bella then recalled how the fan then told her, ‘”Aren’t they all sᴇxʏ?”
She replied: ‘No, enough is enough…I get it, they have to make money and everyone has a job so I get that. It was just that I was under 18 and it’s inappropriate.’
The former child star also revealed that upon reflection, she would not participate in some of the pH๏τoshoots she did when she was younger.
‘I wouldn’t do that now. You also can’t spend your time trying to take back these moments or moments that you were too sᴇxʏ or think that being a woman is only this or that. I also think when you’re growing up, now you have boobs all of a sudden and everything’s growing and become more and more intense. You start liking people and everything changes.’
