Julianne Moore is now a banned author - What does Trump have against her book?

Actress Julianne Moore has expressed her surprise upon learning that her book 'Freckleface Strawberry', published in 2007, has been banned from US Department of Defense (DoD) schools.

The actress announced the news via her Instagram account, where she explained that she was very surprised by the news. "It is a great shock for me to learn that my first book, Freckleface Strawberry, has been banned by the Trump Administration from schools run by the Department of Defense," she said.

Photo: Julianne Moore / Instagram

Moore said she did not understand what controversy the book was supposed to cause.

The actress said the book is semi-autobiographical. In it, she writes about a seven-year-old girl who doesn't like her freckles but learns to live with them when she realizes that everyone is different in their own way.

The point of her work, she says, is to express that our differences are the things that unite us. "It is a book I wrote for my children and for other kids to remind them that we all struggle, but are united by our humanity and our community," she said.

The official synopsis of the book reads as follows:

"If you have freckles, you can try these things:
1) Make them go away.
Unless scrubbing doesn’t work.
2) Cover them up.
Unless your mom yells at you for using a marker.
3) Disappear.
Um, where’d you go? Oh, there you are. There’s one other thing you can do:
4) LIVE WITH THEM!"

Moore explained that she herself, the daughter of a Vietnam veteran, attended a DoD school when she lived in Frankfurt. That's why it hurts her even more: exactly those children who attend the same school as she did, cannot access a book written by someone with an experience so similar to hers.

Moore added that she felt sad because she never imagined that this type of situation could happen in a country like the United States. "I am truly saddened and never thought I would see this in a country where freedom of speech and expression is a constitutional right," she said.

According to the actress, it was Pen America, a non-governmental organization dedicated to defending freedom of expression, that informed her about what had happened.

The NGO also announced that the books 'No Truth Without Ruth' about the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and 'I Am Nicole', a story about how a family experiences a daughter's gender transition, were also banned.

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