“Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown has peeled away from Hollywood and is living on a farm with her husband Jake Bongiovi, son of Jon Bon Jovi.
Brown is already worth approximately $14 million at the age of 20, and has obvious access to any lifestyle her heart desires, but the glitz and glamor of Hollywood doesn’t seem to appeal to her at all. The young actress spoke about her beloved farm animals and the joys of living in rural domesticity during an interview with Vanity Fair published Feb. 12, and made it clear that she prefers sprawling land over the chaos of the paparazzi and flashing lights. Brown is elbow-deep in farm chores and animal care, and wouldn’t have it any other way.
The young Netflix star admitted to largely living away from her phone and delegates social media duties to others.
Brown said she enrolled in online courses at Purdue University a few years ago, and threw herself into studying human services because she wanted to deepen her expertise as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. She launched her animal rescue organization in 2022, and began taking classes in veterinary studies. The actress bought an ultrasound machine to learn how to scan animals for pregnancy, and rescues dog from kill shelters to help them find loving homes. She spends the majority of her time with her furry friends by choice.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MARCH 01: Millie Bobby Brown attends the Damsel World Premiere at Paris Theatre on March 01, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Netflix)
Brown admitted there’s a lot of rigorous work involved in this type of lifestyle, and much of it is quite far from the glamorous life most would assume she lives.
“I’m not doing it for the aesthetic,” she told Vanity Fair.
“I’m doing it because I love it,” Brown said.
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 29: Millie Bobby Brown is seen on February 29, 2024 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images) Getty Images
“There are maybe some trad wives out there doing it because it seems wholesome, but it is not.”
“If you’re not picking up horse shit or washing a cow with your bare hands, then that life is not made for you. At all,” she said.
Brown routinely assists the animals and is very involved in their care.
“I’m able to treat wounds, take their pulse, moderate blood pressure, things like that. I do all their medical records myself,” Brown told Vanity Fair.
“Now I just have to do my externship, which is like sitting in on surgeries and things like that,” she said. (RELATED: 96-Year-Old Star Actress Nancy Olson Unapologetically Explains Why She Abandoned Hollywood)
Demonstrating her devotion to her four-legged family, Brown said, “adoption campaigns [on social media] are wonderful temporarily, but you really have to get in there and do the work to make a difference.”
