Thursday September 17, 2009

Vanessa Hudgens wants to be treated like an adult.

The 20-year-old actress — who is dating her former costar Zac Efron — admits she’s finding it difficult to shake off her teen idol image and is now keen to showcase her acting talents.

“People think of me as the High School Musical girl,” Hudgens told Allure magazine. “There’s nothing wrong with that. My character was a great role model, but I get so bored doing the same thing. I want to grow like everybody else.”

Vanessa also spoke of her upset over nude pictures of her which were leaked on the internet.

“It’s just really unfortunate, and to this day people hate me for it, but it’s not like I chose to put that out there in the world,” she said. “It’s so aggravating and frustrating, and whenever anybody asks me, would I do nudity in a film, if I say that it’s something I’m not comfortable with, they’re like, ‘Bulls**t, you’ve already done it.’

“If anything it makes it more embarrassing, because that was a private thing. It’s screwed up that someone screwed me over like that. At least some people are learning from my mistakes.”

Hudgens recently revealed that she’s worried some of her fans and celeb-watchers have started to turn against her because of her self-confident approach to life.

“I think I’m a cool girl,” she said. “But now because I’m saying that some people are going to say I’m conceited. That’s just the way it is.

“I think I’m a very laid back, go-with-the-flow person. At the same time I’m passionate about what I do, so I have strong feelings towards that. But I’m totally chill, I can’t help it.”

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