While you may not always agree with her, you have to admit that Shailene Woodley is not afraid to speak her mind.
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Actress Shailene Woodley believes she knows how to get teenage pregnancy rates to come down – namely, by teaching young women how to masturbate as part of their school curriculum.
“My family is super-f**ked up in many ways, but they are also my everything”, she tells the magazine. Most people there are so privileged, they don’t see the 99% of America, because they don’t have to.
Raised by her counselor-mother and psychologist-father, the 24-year-old actress grew up in a progressive environment – but that wasn’t always a good thing.
“If you’re feeling depleted, go in the sun for an hour and see how much energy you get”, Woodley said.
“That was the kind of reverse, manipulative psychology my parents were into!”
“I have a hard time having political conversations in Hollywood”, Woodley told The Edit. “The more we allow a certain projection, the more we’re feeding a generation to distance themselves from self-awareness and self-realization, which I think will create a lot of issues for them on a personal level later on in life”.
“But something I wish people understood even more about privacy in general is that it’s not just actors or musicians or athletes who struggle with privacy-it’s that privacy is not a human right anymore”, says Ms. Woodley.
Though her parents went through extreme measures, she has nothing but love for them. People are being told every day how unbelievable they are, how lovely they are, how powerful they are. “I’m grateful for the s-t that happened”.
“As a young woman you don’t learn how to pleasure yourself, you don’t learn what an orgasm should be, you don’t learn that you should have feelings of satisfaction”, Woodley said.
Despite all that so-called “f****d up” stuff, Woodley said wouldn’t trade her family for the world.
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On her parents” attitude to bullies: “There were times in school, when someone said something really mean, it would hurt my feelings and my parents weren’t on my side. “It gave me a broader outlook”.
