'I wasn't slut shaming!' Chloë Moretz defends slamming Kim Kardashian's nude photo - and reveals she 'laughed' when the reality star said 'no one knows who she is'
- The 19-year-old Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising star got into a public spat with Kim after the latter posted a nude selfie
- She contests that the picture was about 'body confidence' and insists it was 'done in a slightly voyeuristic light'
- When Kim fired back with an insult, Chloë found it funny because it was 'aggressive, and also it was incorrect'
- Chloë also talked about campaigning for Hillary Clinton and keeping her relationship with Brooklyn Beckham private
Sorry, but Chloë Grace Moretz is definitely not sorry about that whole Kim Kardashian feud.
The 19-year-old had a very public social media spat with the 35-year-old reality star in March, when Chloë criticized Kim for sharing a totally-nude mirror selfie on both Twitter and Instagram.
But as she covers Glamour's June issue, the Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising star says she doesn't regret what she said — and, frankly, didn't think much of Kim's comeback, either.
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Stylish figure: Chloë Grace Moretz appears on the cover of the June issue of Glamour in a Chloé jacket and Noegarments bra
Not sorry: The 19-year-old (pictured in a Fausto Puglisi jacket and Rag & Bone pants and boots) opened up about her feud with Kim Kardashian
Attitude: The actress — who is starring in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising — posed in an Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh jacket and Fausto Puglisi boots
On March 7, Kim shared the much-buzzed-about photo that included black bars places over her private parts for 'modesty'. The image sparked a pretty big public debate, with celebrities Bette Midler and Pink chastising Kim for her attention-hungry tactics, and other stars like Emily Ratajkowski coming to her defense.
'I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than just our bodies,' Chloë tweeted at Kim.
'I had just gotten off a plane from South Korea, I was incredibly jet-lagged, and I couldn’t take one more thing. I saw that photo, and I had to say something,' Chloë explained to Glamour. 'That picture wasn’t linked to body confidence. It wasn’t a #BodyConfidence or #LoveWhoYouAre.
'It was done in a slightly voyeuristic light, which I felt was a little inappropriate for young women to see... I would hate for young women to feel they need to post certain photos in order to gain likes, retweets, favorites, and male attention.
'I wasn’t slut shaming,' she insisted, making the point that her criticism was more about gratuitous nudity that accomplishes nothing positive. 'It’s not about body shaming.'
Nudie: In March, Kim posted a nude picture on Instagram and Twitter that received quite a bit of buzz
Not impressed: Chloë criticized her publicly for the gratuitous nudity
Not impressed: She told Glamour that she was tired and just snapped at the attention-grabbing ploy — but insists she wasn't slut shaming
Whatever, girl: After Kim fired back with an 'aggressive' response, Chloë said she laughed — and doesn't care, because Kim's premise that 'no one knows who she is' isn't true
Kim, of course, saw it a different way, claiming the sexy selfie was 'empowering' and took a page out of Donald Trump's insult playbook to write: 'let's all welcome @ChloeGMoretz to twitter, since no one knows who she is.'
Chloë wasn't a bit phased by the insult, taking comfort in her 2.31 million Twitter followers, 6.2 million Instagram followers, and People's Choice and MTV Movie Awards.
'I started laughing,' she said of the moment she read the tweet. 'I was at dinner with my family [when] I got the notification [on my phone]. I look at it and I go, "Oh my God. She responded."
Though her mom was offended by the 'girl-on-girl hate', Chloë just saw the response as ridiculous.
'It was aggressive, and also it was incorrect. I don’t have 45 million followers or a TV show that follows my life. But people know who I am. I pride myself on having opinions, and I don’t express them in snarky ways toward people,' she said.
She's with her: Chloë also spoke about supporting Hillary Clinton's bid for president
You go girl: She stumped for her in Nevada and said meeting Hillary was great because she 'asked what I thought were the biggest problems facing Americans my age'
Chloë — who posed for Glamour's cover in a leather jacket by the (unaffiliated) fashion brand Chloé — also opened up about her support for Hillary Clinton.
The first-time voter campaigned for her at a meeting of the Clark County Young Dems in Nevada ahead of the state's caucuses in February, and even had an opportunity to speak with the former Secretary of State.
'She wasn’t just like, "Oh, you’re a celebrity who’s campaigning for me. Thank you." She asked what I thought were the biggest problems facing Americans my age,' Chloë said. 'And what it was like to grow up with a single mom. And four older brothers — were they oppressive or supportive? What’s it like growing up with gay brothers?'
Budding romance: However, the star didn't want to talk about her relationship with Brooklyn Beckham, 17
Hush hush: She said her love life is nobody's business so she wants to keep it private
Outspoken: Chloë (pictured at Monday night's met Gala) said she prides herself on having opinions
But while the actress was perfectly candid about her political opinions — and opinions about fellow celebrities — she wasn't quite so open about her love life.
Chloë is currently dating Victoria and David Beckham's 17-year-old son Brooklyn, but said she didn't want to share details about their romance.
'Because it’s no one’s business. These moments are supposed to be so personal and special —you’re building a foundation with someone or just having fun and going on a date,' she said. 'No one needs to know about that, and I hate to see that stuff broadcast on TV.'
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Chloë Grace Moretz may be only 19, but don’t call her an ingenue. Force of nature is more like it. She won her first big role, in The Amityville Horror, at just five by demonstrating an uncanny ability to cry on command. She then impressed in a stream of kid roles. But by age 11 Moretz didn’t feel like a child anymore: She had seen her mom, Teri, fight kidney cancer and supported brothers Trevor and Colin as they revealed they were gay. Adding to that, her parents’ marriage was crumbling. No one would have blamed her for locking her bedroom door and hiding from the world, but Moretz had a better way forward. Announcing she wanted to sink her teeth into “a take-charge leading role,” she snapped up the part of Hit-Girl, the pint-size ultraviolent assassin in Kick-Ass.
Thus began Moretz’s metamorphosis from child star to leading woman. After Kick-Ass she unnerved as an ancient vampire in Let Me In, terrorized a town as a bullied-over-the-brink teen in Carrie, and courted the afterlife as a car-crash survivor in If I Stay. Now she’s aiming to make progressive female roles her specialty—including Shelby, a sorority pledge who upturns a sexist Greek system in the new comedy Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. “She’s shooting from the hip,” says Moretz, “messing up as much as a young man would mess up.” Next, she’ll channel a journalist spiraling into insanity in the memoir-turned-movie Brain on Fire.
Like so many of the characters she plays, Moretz is all about following her heart, trusting her gut, speaking out—and she’s using the platform fame has given her to fight for what she believes. She’s gone head-to-head with filmmakers over antifeminist roles. She often speaks out against homophobia, sharing stories of how her brothers were bullied in school for being gay. She’s denounced Donald Trump’s “regressive” positions and has stumped for Hillary Clinton. She’s even called out Kim Kardashian West for posting a nude photo online that Moretz believed set the wrong example for young women. “The way I look at it is, I’m trying to start conversations,” says Moretz. “You might not agree with my opinions, and that’s great—I would love to talk about it.” We sat down with her in Los Angeles to do just that.
Read Genevieve Field's interview with Moretz below and see more from her cover shoot here. For more, pick up the June issue of Glamour on newsstands, subscribe now, or download the digital edition.
Glamour: You’re looking very incognito in your baseball cap.
Chloë Grace Moretz: I’m not hiding! It’s an active day. I might go skateboarding with my brother later.
Glamour: In that case, let’s jump in: You’ve played a lot of rebellious women. Is that what you look for when you’re reading a script?
CGM: Definitely. With movies like Kick-Ass, Carrie, and Let Me In, I was able to push boundaries at a really young age. … Now that I’m able to get projects funded, curate scripts, and make movies, it means a lot to me to go against gender norms. My biggest thing now is making gender-equalizing movies, where you can put a male actor or a female actor in that role, and it would work the same way.
Glamour: How does Shelby buck gender norms in Neighbors 2?
CGM: Shelby’s a frat bro. She goes off the cuff. I like that, because I don’t think we [usually get to] see young women put into a position where they’re making rash decisions. When we do see young women bucking the system, we see them do it in a very educated sense. Instead of being poised…[Shelby] genuinely is kind of an idiot!
Glamour: And what a cast: Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Selena Gomez, among others. How was it on set?
CGM: We were always pulling pranks on each other. They would find all these things that tick my clock—certain people out there really push my buttons—and send me articles and pictures.
Glamour: You’ve got to tell me who—
CGM: I definitely can’t tell you. They’re very famous!
Glamour: What type of person pushes your buttons?
CGM: One who appropriates bad gender stereotypes, appropriates a lot of exclusivity, is very rich and niche-y. Or someone who overtly tries to be normal, when that’s the opposite of who I know they are.
Glamour: Your recent Twitter exchange with Kim Kardashian West made headlines. After she Instagrammed a nude photo, you tweeted: “I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women. Teaching them we have so much more to offer than just our bodies.” Why did you want to send that message?
CGM: I had just gotten off a plane from South Korea, I was incredibly jet-lagged, and I couldn’t take one more thing. I saw that photo, and I had to say something. That picture wasn’t linked to body confidence. It wasn’t a #BodyConfidence or #LoveWhoYouAre. It was done in a slightly voyeuristic light, which I felt was a little inappropriate for young women to see. … I would hate for young women to feel they need to post certain photos in order to gain likes, retweets, favorites, and male attention.… I wasn’t slut-shaming. It’s not about body shaming.
Glamour: Kim responded by tweeting: “let’s all welcome @ChloeGMoretz to twitter, since no one knows who she is. …”
CGM: I started laughing. I was at dinner with my family [when] I got the notification [on my phone]. I look at it and I go, “Oh my God. She responded.” My mom took the most offense to it because it was girl-on-girl hate and Kim didn’t come back with an educated response on body confidence. It was aggressive, and also it was incorrect. I don’t have 45 million followers or a TV show that follows my life. But people know who I am. I pride myself on having opinions, and I don’t express them in snarky ways toward people.
Glamour: Kim followed that up with a letter on her site. She wrote, “I’m empowered by my body. I’m empowered by my sexuality.”
CGM: I think that was interesting. I wish that it had come out earlier. It was a great message; it was just a little late.
Glamour: You’ve said before, “When I post a bikini shot, I get thousands of new followers.” So when you post that bikini shot, are you tweeting it to get followers, or why are you doing it?
CGM: I do it because it’s a body-confidence thing. I posted one in Mexico. I felt good, and I was wearing a bikini on a beach. It wasn’t me sexualizing myself. It was with a beautiful background. When I posted it, I knew that there would be a lot of young women looking. So I made sure that it was tasteful…. I get called prudish.
Glamour: Really?
CGM: Yeah, of course. I get called names for not showing myself off.
Glamour: I want to talk about your views on feminism and how they’ve evolved. A few years ago, you said, “I’m definitely a feminist, but I don’t hate all men.” Did you have a full understanding of what the word meant to you then?
CGM: The word feminism meant something very different when I was 13. I had four older brothers and a single mom, and we were providing for each other…. It was a collective effort between men and women. So for me, it was about familial equality.
Glamour: And your understanding has evolved?
CGM: I was uneducated on the word feminism because I wasn’t an adult in a lot of ways. I hadn’t dealt with the amount of adversity that I deal with now, especially in business. I’ve traveled more. I’ve been part of different cultures and [heard about] what it means to be a minority young woman in this country and other countries. I’ve read more, experienced more. It’s kind of an evolution. So now, for me, feminism means equality for people of all genders, races, and economic situations. But at the same time, I never really thought that feminism was about hating men; I was afraid that people would view me that way.
Glamour: That is the stereotype, unfortunately.
CGM: The word feminism, right now, is super polarizing. I started realizing this when I got on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton. I’m constantly meeting young women who say, “I do want to vote for Hillary, and I think it would be really great for her to be our president, but I’m afraid that if I vote for Hillary, young men aren’t going to look at me the way they would have looked at me before.”
Glamour: You’re kidding me.
CGM: Nope, it’s not cool. It’s not cool. No one knows what feminism means; I really want to educate young women around me.
Glamour: Have you spent time with Hillary? What’s she like?
CGM: She wasn’t just like, “Oh, you’re a celebrity who’s campaigning for me. Thank you.” She asked what I thought were the biggest problems facing Americans my age. And what it was like to grow up with a single mom. And four older brothers—were they oppressive or supportive? What’s it like growing up with gay brothers?
Glamour: You’ve talked a bit about your dad leaving you guys.
CGM: I was 12. It was a pretty bad experience…. It could have rocked our family and messed us up, but it actually made us a lot tighter. My brothers bumped up into the roles of fathers and kept me in a bubble where I could live in a world that wasn’t jaded and ruined.
Glamour: Have you found forgiveness on that one yet?
CGM: I don’t think I will truly find a way to forgive; the things that he did are unforgivable…. My forgiveness is that I’m living my life.
Glamour: Having that happen to you at such an impressionable age—did it make it hard for you to trust people?
CGM: Oh yeah. In my business in general, it’s hard to trust people. And it definitely affected me at a young age in terms of accepting people into my life on a personal level. But I’ve overcome that in the past few years—dealing with relationships, dealing with guys. You don’t realize why you’re acting a certain way, and then you start to piece it together, and you realize you’ve got a slight case of PTSD.
Glamour: You’re also a celebrity. Is there always a voice in your mind, asking, “Is this person interested in me for who I am or for—”
CGM: —the fame and the money.
Glamour: So how do you get past that?
CGM: I take a long time. There are a lot of walls. My mom is the same way…. She loves, she forgives, she accepts, but it takes a long time for her to really trust, which is a good thing. Don’t be a shell of a person, but don’t go head over heels on the first date.
Glamour: You’ve managed to keep your dating life private. Why is it that important to you?
CGM: Because it’s no one’s business. These moments are supposed to be so personal and special—you’re building a foundation with someone or just having fun and going on a date. No one needs to know about that, and I hate to see that stuff broadcast on TV.
Glamour: Growing up, were your brothers protective of you? Do you still feel that you’ve got this protective circle around you?
CGM: They peeled back when I turned 18, but yeah, it’s like I have four bodyguards.… When a guy comes to the house to pick me up for a date, I enjoy them answering the door, shaking his hand, and then him being like, “Your brothers are kind of scary.” I’m like, “They are definitely very scary.” I enjoy the power of that.
Glamour: You’ve said two of your brothers were bullied in school for being gay. Do you still find you have to stand up for their rights?
CGM: Yeah, most recently in Colorado over Christmas. My family was at a bar postskiing, doing a pizza, chicken-wing thing. These guys go, “Ugh, who let the f-a-g-g-o-t-s in here?” I was like, “What did you say?” My two straight brothers bucked up too. I was like, “Do you want to say it again?” They were like, “No, it’s all good.” I’m the type of person who will start swinging if you offend my family.
Glamour: What a support system you have. You’ve also found support on set. Who’s been your favorite female director to work with?
CGM: One right now is Rebecca Thomas, who I’m working with on [the upcoming film] The Little Mermaid. She knows what she wants. She’s intuitive and artistic. Her ideas are really out of the box.
Glamour: The Little Mermaid is a story about a girl who gives up everything for a man. Will you be making it more progressive?
CGM: We’re flipping the story on its head. Really flipping it on its head. There’s still a prince, but it’s a different game, different world.
Glamour: You’ve expressed interest in writing and directing, and you’re producing your first film, based on a book you loved. Why do you want to take on that behind-the-camera role?
CGM: I like to push myself as an actor and an artist, and directing, writing, producing, cinematography—all these are things that I haven’t accomplished yet. They’re big life hurdles that I’ve set out in front of me, and they’re just waiting for me to take them on headfirst. So why not?
Genevieve Field is a contributing editor for Glamour.
