After A Life In Acting, Sophia Bush Is Asking: 'How Do You Quit Your Dream Job?'

Imagine spending fifteen years working day and night at your dream job and then realizing you don’t want it anymore. It’s not an ah-ha! moment that’s exclusive to the rich and the famous, of course, but for actress Sophia Bush, it was a decision that was, well, fifteen years in the making. After starring in hits like “One Tree Hill” and “John Tucker Must Die,” and most recently “Chicago Fire,” “Med,” “Justice,” and “P.D.,” the actress is now a producer, and recently inked a deal with 20th Century Fox to produce her own show. On top of that — yeah, all of that — Bush isn’t stopping: She’s focusing hard on social work, too, which she speaks passionately about to Refinery29 co-founder and global editor-in-chief Christene Barberich on this week’s episode of UnStyled.

While she may be known to most as a bonafide television darling, Bush has had a knack for social advocacy since she was a child. “Advocacy has been my life far before I had a platform for it. Back in the day, I started using Twitter because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. That’s literally the reason I started an account,” she says. Don’t believe her? One scroll through Bush’s Instagram and you’ll find post after post on issues like gun control, reproductive rights, birth control, environmental legislation, and so much more. Surprisingly enough, her fans aren’t as thrilled about her social work as you’d think.