Amanda Bynes explains she wants people to understand why she lights her Instas the way she does.

The actress has stared in some of Hollywood’s spectacular movies, to include  Easy A, Hairspray and What A Girl Wants.

The 35-year-old actress took to Instagram on Match 13, to reveal one particularly harsh note she once got from an unnamed director.

“The reason I don’t usually look great in paparazzi pictures is because I’m squinting in the sun,” she explained in the caption of a selfie video. “The videos and pictures I post are in a flattering light, or in the shade outside, without the sun blasting on my face.”

“I once did a movie where the director told me that in certain lights, I looked like a monster.”

As reported by E! News, Amanda in he video showed off glowing skin, groomed eyebrows and pouty lips. Along with a black graphic T-shirt, the Nickelodeon alum sported a septum piercing and her now-signature facial heart tattoo, which she recently explained she is in the process of removing.

Amanda on her struggles with mental health told Paper Magazine “I just had no purpose in life. I’d been working my whole life and [now] I was doing nothing.”