The sexy Heroes cheerleader is hoping to shake off her ‘child star’ tag now she has reached her 18th birthday. Hayden Panettiere just hates being called “Hollywood baby” in magazine articles coz she now considers herself to be an adult. She says,

“I don’t know if they can call me a child star any more. I’m an adult now so I don’t think they would ever give me that again. Ive gotten it before when I was young and it’s a wonderful thing. If they tried to call me a child starlet now I might go, ummm I don’t think so.”

Calling Hayden Panettiere a ‘child’ is definitely stupid! She’s much more mature than those party-loving celebrities in their 20s who definitely doesn’t deserve to be called adults. Yes, I’m talking about Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and their ilk! o_O