Welcome to Unstyled.

I'm your host, Christine Barberick, co-founder and global editor-in-chief of Refinery 29.

Each week, I invite a notable person to come in and talk with us as we explore the funny, inspiring,

sometimes heartbreaking tales of life, work, and love, as told through the things that we wear.

Three years ago, Shailene Woodley pulled the plug. She called her agents and told them not to send her any more scripts. And just like that, she stopped working. At just 24, Shalene was a 20-year veteran

of the entertainment industry.

She'd hit all the milestones of a rising star.

A childhood spent on television, most notably

as the lead on the secret life of the American teenager,

a breakout big screen debut in The Descendants,

for which she earned a stack of industry nominations.

A heart-smashing role in The Fault in Our Stars,

the definitive drama of her generation.

Shailene was primed and flushed with opportunity,

but then she walked away.

Shailene says she was burnt out. After two decades of celebrity,

she just needed time to be a human.

Among her other most notable talents,

Shailene is gifted with an especially distinctive one,

an innate understanding of who she is and what she believes.

She's unapologetic in her stance on ecological preservation and left-leaning politics.

And during her time off, she was famously arrested while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline,

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