Parenting & Family Quote by Vanessa Hudgens

There is a particular kind of celebrity honesty that only lands because it risks sounding a little ugly. Hudgens walks right up to that edge: she opens with a blunt, almost taboo admission ("I do not like kids at all"), then scrambles to pad the impact with brand management ("I love my fans and everything"). That pivot is the point. She is trying to preserve affection for the audience while drawing a boundary around the audience's demands.

The line works because it treats "kids" as less a demographic than an atmosphere: noise, proximity, entitlement, the constant feeling of being watched. In the pop-star-to-actress ecosystem Hudgens came up in, fans are often literally children, and access is currency. Her "following you around all day" isn't abstract; it's the invasive choreography of teen fame, where your job is to be available and your punishment is never being alone. The "Ugh, kids!" is written like an eye-roll you can hear, a vent disguised as banter, leaning on the audience's familiarity with exasperation to make a potentially alienating sentiment relatable.

Then she adds the escape hatch: "Maybe that will change when I get older". It's a social apology in future tense, a way of signaling she understands the expectation that women soften into nurturers. The subtext is less about hating children than about resisting the compulsory sweetness that young female celebrities are expected to perform on demand.