Shailene Woodley was “very, very sick” during her early 20s, causing the actress to lose out on several high-profile jobs. While promoting her new movie Ending, Beginnings, the 28-year-old opened up on her health scare, and admitted that “the commercial success I had in this industry began to wear on my strength.” “While I was doing the Divergent movies and working hard, I also was struggling with a deeply personal, very scary physical situation.
Because of that, I said no to a lot of opportunities,” the actress told the New York Times. “I was in a place where I had no choice but to just surrender and let go of my career, and it brought out this negative voice in my mind that kept spinning for years and years afterward.” While the Big