Milla Jovovich says her childhood was mostly work

“By the time I turned 16 I had been working since I was 11 and I was kind of tired of being treated like a kid,” the Resident Evil beauty told US magazine Moves.

“I wasn’t treated like a kid at work so it was like a double standard in my head. You expect me to work an adult day but you are going to order me around when I get home.”

Milla’s mother, an actress from her native Ukraine took her family to Los Angeles and put all her energy into making Milla’s career a success.

“The expectations were intense,” said the 35-year-old.

“That kind of single-minded attention was definitely a lot for me to cope with as a kid.”

She added: “It made me who I am today but I always wished that my mom had more of a life when I was younger, one that didn’t concern me. I think that would have been inspiring for me to see…that my mother was a person outside of who she was with me.”

The Fifth Element actress says she is giving her own daughter, Ever, 3, a more conventional upbringing.

“I feel like my daughter is getting a more normal childhood than I did,” said Milla who is married to Musketeers 3D director Paul W.S. Anderson.