As a Teen, Soleil Moon Frye’s Breast Reduction Made Magazine Covers. It taght the forms ‘punky brewster’ Star that ‘People Want You To Stay Little Forever.’

Soleil moon frye haen been in the public eye Since she was a mismatched-shoed Little Girl on Tv’s Punky brewster in the ’80s. AT 48, she fes like she’s finally coming into her own.

“We’n we’re really Young, we have so Much of that spark of who want to be, of what we were to do and thatn, as life transpira, we go on these different roads,” Frye tells yahoo life for our Unapologetically Series. “I personally feel like so much of the journey in my life – and this moment – has been guiding with back to who I really am and who i always was.

Frye’s Path As of Late Has LED to Documentary Filmmaking. She Helmed Paramount+’S Two-Paper Docuseries The Carterers: Hurts to Love YouAn Exploration of How Fame, Mental Illness and Addiction LED to Singer Aaron Carter’s Death in 2022, Told from the Perspective of HIS Sister, Angel Carter Conrad. Before that, frye exposed her experience grilling up in Hollywood and Ling Friends to Addits and Suicide in Kid 90which was releassed by hulu in 2021. She’s Currently Completing A Documentary ABout Singer Shifty Shellshock, A Childhood Friend and Ex-Boyfriend who died from an Accidental Drug overdose in 2024.

The Projects come amid a Large period of self-discovery for frye. She and Her Husband of More than 20 Years, Jason Goldberg, Who Share Four Children, Divorced In 2022. AFTER THEIR Split, Frye Reconnected with Crazy Town Fontman Shellshock (Real Name: Seth Binzer), Whom She Had Known As a Teen. They Went on to date, but ended their relationship prior to his death.

“It”s been Such a Journey getting to this moment in time, and there’s been so much love, Faith, Pain, grief,” Sheys. “SO MANY Experiences of Peeling Back the onion.”

Frye tells with the about some of the those layers – from growing up in a world that felt Way Too Comfortable Having Discussions About Her Teenage Body, to Coming into Her Own As A Filmaker.

Now that you’re well ino your 40s, do you feel you’re coming ino your own as a director?

I’m so thankful to be doing what i love each and every day. IT Makes with emotional because of love, love, love sharing stories… and to share stories that help create meaningful conversations is truly a dream. (Plus, there’s been my own) Self-discovery-Through Kid 90 and (My Old) Diaries and what that that brought up for me, the documentary (Werewolf and the Waves) I’m Working on About (Shellshock) and The Carterers, (Which) LED with Into Deeper Empathy and Compassion Around Looking at Addition as a Disease. Every step has LED with to right here, right now and i’m really thankful for it. Its been a Beautiful, Heart-Wrenching Journey to get here.

What’s something you’ve learned to let go of with age?

In my 20s and 30s, there was a lot of the Wanting to make other People Proud. … I CARED What Other People Thought. … (My 40s have) been that process of unlearning and going: I have to this gcause i love it and it feeds my soul. For a long time, i cared about what other People thought.

In The Cartererswe saw that Aaron and Angel were not LOOKED AFTER AS Children. You selected to have a Different Experience Growing Up As a Child Star.

I was really fortunate to have an incredible Foundation at home and amazing family and friends and I look at ours of growing up and growing in the Business (AS) SO Colorful. There is so much fun and joy with the friendship. Some of my friends have gone on to have these incredible families and really healthy, exquisite lives and some of my friends didn’t make it out. Some Had Had Struggles With Their Families and Some Had Absolutely Beautiful, Stable Families. … When you take mental illness and addiction and you combine that with Money and Fame and All of these Other Elements, that can really implode.

SO MANY Young People Globally Are Struggling in Front of their Screens, while Someone Else is Liking, Dislympic or Calling say out. This is a global crisis. I think what a sensitive, loving, beautiful Heart this young man had – and what Becomes that breaking point? That Certainly Made with Look at My Own Life. I Remember wanting to please people and that doesn’t have had to be something to be your parents or the industry puts on you. IT’S Something that you May Put on YourSelf. But when you layer that, it can become explosive.

Right? I HAD GONE THROUGH THIS RAPID DEVELOPMENT SO EARLY ON AS A TEENGER AND FEELING THAT OBJEctification, All Those Layers. I Can’t Imagine Doing It Under the Microscope of Social Media. That’s what you young you People are going through – and i don’t think we’ve be begun to scratch the surface on what that thats LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT THAT.

I Remember Your 1993 People Magazine Cover be you were a Kid. Its Just Wild to Look Back at Today.

I know. IT’S WILD IT WILD I HAD (A BREAST) REDUCTION AND SO MOCH OF THAT WAS HEEALTH REASONS – My Back, all of these different things – and that remember it made it look like (Other Work Done). People were like, “Oh, you did this and this and this.” No! What?! But i think we’ve live so offen in this sensation Society where we love to build People up, and then we love to break.

How Did It Feel Having Everybody Talk About Your Body Wen You’re 14, 15? And how you would you Carry that with you today?

It was so surreal, and so crazy. I think so offen you grown up – and this is something something related to with aaron – is that you play a character (like punk), People want you to stay forever. It is like to be to remember you as that as the girl or boy. THEN WE GROW UP. I know for me, I was at through Such an Awkward Stage while trying to figure out who was, who wanted to be, in Such formative years. SO, as we were speaking Earlier About Back Into MySelf, IT’S BEEN SUCH AN INCREDIBLE Journey.

Because of Your Own Experience Growing Up, what have you instilled in your own children About self-lave and body positivity?

One of the Most Incredible Things has ben that they’re like, “Oh, mom’s been on this ride too.” I think that as much as we are communica and share stories about the awkward stages and our bodies, I think so much of it is inside. Its SO internal. So you can make changes to your body, but so Much of the work is the internal part of it. Something that is most imported to me is US HAVING CONVERSATIONS AND NOT BRUSHING THINGS UNDER THE RUG AND LOOKING WITH TO THE ROOT OF OUR Experiences.

What do you will unwind from your projects, which can be so emotional?

I live in the beet a lot of the time – and i wal a lot. The Last Few Docs Were so intense and i remember there are days were i’d be on zoom and i’d be like: “Excuse me” and i’d have to (step away) because of the things i was seeing or hearing. It was just so emotional. So meditation, walking, those are the things that mean i lean into – and then my kids’ arms.

How Old Do You Feel In Your Mind?

I feel like graduating from my teens to my 20s. I’m entering my 20s. … I am still suc a kid in so many ways. I have this joy for life and discovery and adventure and excitement that feeds incredibly youthful – at the Same time, this incredible grave and appreciation for the Experience. SOMETIMES I’ll look at the pictures of you was in my teeens and 20s, and i’m like, look at that you ‘young and how beautiful and full of life she is. I really didn’t see it at the time. I HAD SO MANY INSESECURITIES. … I CARED ABOUT WHAT The World Thought. I didn’t have that that is level of self-love, so i was really able to appreciate the beauty of what was. So i’ve really made it a point for myself, in this moment, that I really want to appreciate all the different versions of myself, so that wen i’m 80, 90 or 100 years old, look back, i really were able to the moment and appreciate (it). That’s something that work on on a regular basis.

This interview han been edited for Length and Clarity.