The Modern Lolita: Why Are We So Obsessed?

Little babe with a big parents, (as you know) her mother is French singer Vanessa Paradis and her father is Johnny Depp, Lily-Rose Depp has low-key acted in the Canadian Clerks knock-off and modeled as the face of Chanel (ugh, stop being better than us). Although Depp's childhood was spottily covered by the media, she wasn't really a major society figure until she modeled for Oyster in 2015. This slight gap has allowed the media to treat her as an adult rather than the child she really is. (Would you trust your 17-year old self to make adult decisions?) Her self-curated Instagram is both lush and trill (photos of her posing on red carpets in white gowns spliced with selfies in her high-school bathroom).

We wonder how much of this image is her own creation and how much of it comes from media/societal pressure? It's difficult enough to be a teenager - your dad going through (yet another) divorce, splitting time between two homes, developing your sense of self - without having the media report daily on your sexual identity. And, regardless of Depp's own image intentions (not to remove her agency, of course) what does it say about us that we idolize a little girl for being famous and pretty, while stripping her of a public voice - of all the Lily-Rose fan blogs we've seen on Tumblr, not one seems to care about her mind, it's just a series of glossy photos of a gaunt young babe pouting to camera.

[Photo via @lilyrose_depp]