Although Kristen started as a child actress, she has always been in the relatively clean independent film scene in Hollywood. Unlike child stars like Lindsay Lohan and Shia LaBeouf, who were born in Disney, Kristen has always been well-protected by her parents, who were always there on set when she made films before she became an adult.

And she turned eighteen when Twilight burst onto the scene. When she said goodbye to the previously familiar independent film scene and began to officially enter mainstream Hollywood, the adult world of Hollywood, the hierarchical, capitalist, male-dominated society, all of which was actually unfamiliar to her, she was uncomfortable, and as she later said herself, she often felt that she wasn't respected and that she was often offended.