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The killer star of Kick-Ass, Chloë Grace Moretz is on the cusp of adulthood, and the guys are falling at her feet. The actress has better things to do — spending the millions she’s about to get her hands on, for starters…

If some future laboratory of genetic engineers were to manufacture the ultimate femanoid, the result of their efforts would probably bear a close resemblance to Chloë Grace Moretz.

When the 17-year-old actress bounds into the Beverly Hills coffee shop where we’ve agreed to meet, she’s tiny and toned, with buttery blonde hair, pert little nose, and a smile that’s cuter than a puppy cuddling a bunny in a basket full of kittens. You look at Moretz and think: our species really can’t do much better than this. The day she was born, the evolutionary gods must have lit up a few cigars and decided to take the next 10,000 years off.

It’s jarring, then, when this former child star (Hugo, Diary of a Wimpy Kid)