Amanda Seyfried, known for her roles in Mean Girls, Mamma Mia, and most recently The Dropout has opened up about the "gross" sexual attention from men she's received, which she puts down to one particular movie scene.

Referencing her Mean Girls character Karen, whose final scene shows her predicting the weather by touching her breasts, Amanda recalled how boys would frequently ask her if it was raining. "I always felt really grossed out by that," she told Marie Claire. "I was like 18 years old. It was just gross."

Elsewhere in her interview with Marie Claire, Amanda (who has two children: a five-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son) opened up about the pressures of being in the public eye, noting how this is often exacerbated for young celebrities. "I think being really famous [young] must really f**king suck," she said. "It must make you feel completely unsafe in the world. I see these younger actors who think they have to have security. They think they have to have an assistant. They think their whole world has changed. It can get stressful. I’ve seen it happen to my peers."

The 36-year-old went on: "Fame is weird. I’ve never been super famous [but] I’ve always been somewhat recognizable." Thankfully, Amanda says her fame had a "healthy trajectory" meaning she wasn't thrust into the limelight overnight with no time to adjust. "[It’s] not a scary spike. I have my priorities. I know who I am. I know where I’m going."

Previously Amanda revealed that fame had, on occasion, impacted her mental wellbeing causing her to suffer panic attacks, which she described as feeling "like life or death."

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This article originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.com/uk. Minor edits have been made by the Cosmo.ph editors.