Shailene Woodley: Dating Aaron Rodgers ruined socials for me

Actress Shailene Woodley has all the time had a love-hate relationship with Instagram.

However her discomfort towards the social media app reached a excessive level because the highlight intensified throughout her relationship with her ex-fiancé, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

“It truthfully by no means actually hit me that thousands and thousands of individuals around the globe have been really watching these items and paid consideration to them. Then, I dated anyone in America who was very, very well-known,” Woodley informed Net-a-Porter, referring to the Inexperienced Bay Packers star, in an interview revealed Sunday. Her Instagram account boasts a following of practically 5 million customers.

The “Massive Little Lies” actor stated her relationship with Rodgers was her first “well-known relationship,” which she stated introduced extra consideration and scrutiny to her private life. Instagram went from being “enjoyable,” Woodley stated, to feeling “violating.”

“I’m a really non-public particular person, and so I discovered that any time I posted something, I immediately felt like I used to be sharing an excessive amount of of who I’m with individuals I didn’t essentially belief,” Woodley stated.

After courting all through 2020, Woodley and Rodgers introduced they have been engaged in February 2021. When Woodley confirmed the engagement on “The Tonight Present,” she informed host Jimmy Fallon, “For us, it’s not new information. So it’s sort of humorous everyone proper now’s freaking out over it, and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we’ve been engaged for some time.’”

A 12 months later, the couple broke off their engagement.

Woodley known as the interval after her breakup with Rodgers “the darkest, hardest time in my life.”

“It was winter in New York, and my private life was s—, so it felt like a giant ache bubble for eight months,” she informed Web-a-Porter.

Woodley stated she had already been contemplating a retreat from Instagram as she turned “allergic to individuals speaking about issues that they know nothing about.” She complained that the majority celebrities don’t really “learn books and educate themselves” on the problems they put up about.

Woodley’s disdain for social media stretches again to 2014, when she told Marie Claire that she had deleted her Instagram account within the lead-up to the discharge that 12 months of her movies “Divergent” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

“The whole lot I used to be posting was for a narrative — like, ‘Look how fascinating I’m.’ It felt disgusting to me,” she stated, including that “we’re all such narcissists, and that’s what social media caters to.”

Then, in a 2016 interview with The Times, Woodley echoed her sentiments, commenting that social media “would breed a narcissistic nature inside myself of [needing] validation.”

She went on to query the position of social media in Hollywood and whether or not administrators and studios have been searching for actors with reputation on the apps slightly than contemplating their expertise or artistry inside their craft.

Woodley ultimately rebooted her account, the place she repeatedly posted about social and political causes she cared about, together with opposition to the Dakota Entry oil pipeline. Woodley was arrested in North Dakota whereas protesting on the pipeline building website in 2016.

Final August, Woodley took to social media and warned her followers that “you’ll be able to’t give all of it away over the web.”

“Instagram needs to be a spot we come to snicker at ourselves + society. not beat ourselves up for it,” she wrote in a now-deleted put up.

Final September, fans noticed that Woodley had deleted all her posts.

Woodley informed Web-a-Porter that since scaling again her social media use, she’s in a position to deal with “the smaller issues,” which to her now “really feel like probably the most extraordinary little slices of magic on the planet.”

Her Instagram web page now contains solely a handful of posts, together with an advert for eco-friendly sun shades and an Instagram Dwell about Indigenous Individuals’s Day. Her most up-to-date tales largely present time spent with pals — card video games at recreation night time, dinner at a restaurant and smiley FaceTime calls.