“Frankly, at the time, I was definitely not that person. I was very nervous about all of that, and I was quite uncomfortable in my own skin.”
, she was only 18 — and when she made her film debut inwith CNN's Chris Wallace, Jessica said she felt sexualized by Hollywood at an early age — and that she had to protect herself from the industry's"predators" as well.“I understood that I needed to help sell the product, and they sell it how they do," she said while talking about how her image was presented by the media."So I understood it as a business decision and as a strategy.
She also said that there were a lot of"predators" in Hollywood from when she was 12 years old until she was 26 — which was when she became pregnant with her first child, Honor.Jessica said she"cursed like a sailor" and acted like a"warrior" to ensure that people would leave her alone. “At that time, I felt like I was very much having to put up this armor of masculine and masculine energy, so I wouldn’t be preyed on," she explained.
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