In a lengthy Instagram statement, the Hunger Games star wrote: "It is a great shock for me to learn that my first book, Freckleface Strawberry, has been banned by the Trump Administration from schools run by the Department of Defense.
The upset 64-year-old star described the popular 2007 story as a “semi-autobiographical story about a seven-year-old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live with them when she realises that she is different ‘just like everybody else.‘”.
"Freckleface Strawberry is a semi-autobiographical story about a seven year old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live with them when she realizes that she is different “just like everybody else.”.
Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore is devastated after Donald Trump banned her book about a young girl who learns to love her freckles.
It is galling for me to realize that kids like me, growing up with a parent in the service and attending a @dodea_edu school will not have access to a book written by someone whose life experience is so similar to their own.
