Amanda Seyfried can do it all.

(and again in “Mama Mia!

But it hasn’t always been as easy as it sounds.

Amanda Seyfried wearing a blue coat

She spoke of the invasion of privacy toMarie Claire.

“I always felt really grossed out by that.

I was like 18 years old.

Amanda Seyfried sitting with hands clasped at the microphone

It was just gross,” she said.

How did I let that happen?

That’s why.”

Amanda Seyfried signing autographs

“I just wish I’d been naked less,” she said.

She spoke to Marie Claire about the reason for putting some distance between her and Hollywood.

“I see these younger actors who think they have to have security,” she said.

Amanda Seyfried

“They think they have to have an assistant.

They think their whole world has changed.

It can get stressful.

Amanda Seyfried pregnant

I’ve seen it happen to my peers.

So, I bought a farm.

I was like, let’s go in the opposite way.”

Amanda Seyfried with her dog Finn

“It should be taken as seriously as anything else.

You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst.

But it’s there.

Why do you should probably prove it?

If you could treat it, you treat it.”

“He would recognize that thousand-yard stare.

“And it would only last like 60 seconds, and then we’d get through it.”

“I had something that went wrong with my second birth,” she toldPeople.

At that point, I’m very freshly out of the hospital.

I had to feed him.

My husband was with my daughter and I had people that could drive me back to the hospital.”

In 2022, her family dog Finn had a tumor removed and successfully completed chemotherapy.