Shailene Woodley Became Her Own Best Friend After Breaking Up With First Love

Shailene Woodley gets leggy while striking a pose during a fashionable photo shoot on Sunday afternoon (January 18) in Santa Barbara, Calif.

The 23-year-old actress recently opened up about her first love.

“I remember when I was 17, I had broken up with someone who was my first love,” Shai told HuffPo. “After we broke up, I decided to take a year to know me. I didn’t want to date anyone else. I didn’t want to look at anyone else. What I found was I had more fun with myself than I ever had with another person. My entire life, I felt like I had to depend on others for entertainment and depend on external experience in order to laugh and find things really funny. I became my own best friend. That was the most beautiful realization I had during that whole period.”

30+ pics inside of Shailene Woodley at a photo shoot in Santa Barbara…