Millie Bobby Brown is happily married to Jon Bon Jovi’s son, actor and producer Jake Bongiovi, as they enjoy life a ‘trad life’ on a farm in rural Georgia.

But the British actress has shared with the March 2025 issue of Vanity Fair magazine that it is not all tulips and sunshine.

The beauty, who can be seen soon in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, said there are some downsides with the ‘simple life’ approach.

She and Bongiovi have to shovel a lot of crap, literally.

The couple get their hands plenty dirty as they tend to sheep, goats, cows, donkeys and their beloved dog Winnie.

‘If you’re not picking up horse s**t or washing a cow with your bare hands, then that life is not made for you. At all,’ Brown shared with the publication. 

Millie Bobby Brown is happily married to Jon Bon Jovi’s son, actor and producer Jake Bongiovi , as they enjoy life a ‘trad life’ on a farm in rural Georgia. But the British actress has shared with the March 2025 issue of Vanity Fair magazine that it is not all tulips and sunshine

The beauty, who can be seen soon in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, said there are some downsides with the ‘simple life’ approach. She and Bongiovi have to shovel a lot of crap, literally

But she would have it no other way. 

‘I’m doing it because I love it. There are maybe some trad wives out there doing it because it seems wholesome, but it is not,’ she noted.

She loves animals so much she has been taking veterinary classes to help her four-legged friends out.

 ‘I’m able to treat wounds, take their pulse, moderate blood pressure, things like that. I do all their medical records myself,’ she told the publication.

‘Now I just have to do my externship, which is like sitting in on surgeries and things like that. Adoption campaigns [on social media] are wonderful temporarily, but you really have to get in there and do the work to make a difference.’

Also in the wide-ranging VF interview Millie said she was sad to let Stranger Things go.

The couple get their hands plenty dirty as they tend to sheep, goats, cows, donkeys and their beloved dog Winnie

‘If you’re not picking up horse s**t or washing a cow with your bare hands, then that life is not made for you. At all,’ Brown shared with the publication

‘It wasn’t hitting me this entire time—until yesterday,’ Brown said.

‘I was on set, and I was like, “Well, I have one more day left.” And I started crying. I don’t actually like to cry at work. I’m a really emotional person, but I try to stay super strong. 

‘It made me feel so uncomfortable. Jake was like, “It’s good, you have to get it out!” and I just started welling up.’ 

And she told the outlet how she got into character.

‘I implemented what I was learning as a child, or what I was going through, into her,’ she noted.

Brown also noted that her true pᴀssion is musicals and she would like to star in one someday. She loved Wicked starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. And she is a fan of plenty of other musicals like Hairspray and Mamma Mia!; seen in an ad for Florence By Mills

‘Eleven’s idenтιтy was a huge thing that we were kind of fighting with. Is she going to dress as a girl? Or is she gonna dress in the shirts of her adoptive father, Hopper? Or is she gonna be what her friends are helping her to be? 

‘At that time in my life, I didn’t know what I wanted to look like, if I preferred more feminine looks, more masculine looks, more androgynous, more grunge. So I implemented that confusion.’

Brown also noted that her true pᴀssion is musicals and she would like to star in one someday.

She loved Wicked starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.

And she is a fan of plenty of other musicals: ‘My dream was to be Hannah Montana,’ she shared. ‘I loved Hairspray and Mamma Mia!’