If you’re a regular reader of this blog then we’re sure you already know that we have a bit of a girl crush on Zooey Deschanel in our office – so it made our day when we saw that she the cover star of Marie Claire’s November issue.
The New Girl actress loves being a role model for young girls and even set up website HelloGiggles to encourage more positivity online – trying to counterbalance the amount of negativity on the worldwide web.
“Even I get slammed and overwhelmed by how negative the Internet can get, and I'm an adult,” Deschanel tells Marie Claire. “I don't pay any mind to it, but it's pretty shocking how when you give people anonymity — it's like the worst of human nature.”
She believes that everyone should have the freedom to be themselves, without fear of being ridiculed.
“I just feel it's important to teach young girls to be strong people, to not think, 'I can't do this because I'm worried about what people will say,’” she says. “There are worse consequences, but online negativity stops people from being creative, part of which is having bad ideas as well as good ideas. When somebody says: ‘That idea's stupid’, you stop your flow of ideas. We can't have the next generation be so afraid because they have been attacked.”
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Posted by Claire Sharp.