A feminist activist, McGowan has released a memoir, Brave, and starred in the four-part docuseries Citizen Rose, both in 2018. She has been the cover of numerous magazines, including Seventeen, Interview, Maxim, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone. In 2017, Time recognized McGowan as one of the Silence Breakers, the magazine\'s Person of the Year, for speaking out about sexual assault and harassment.\n', '

McGowan was born in Certaldo, Tuscany to American couple Daniel McGowan, an artist, and Terri, a writer. She also has two half-siblings. Her father ran an Italian chapter of the Children of God, in which both he and his wife held membership until 1978. McGowan spent her early childhood at the group\'s communes, often traveling through Europe with her parents.\n', '

Through her father\'s art contacts in Italy, she became a child model and appeared in Vogue Bambini and various other Italian magazines. Her parents returned to the United States when she was 10 years old, and settled in Eugene, Oregon. McGowan had an untraditional childhood, living as a teenage runaway in Portland, Oregon and associating with a group of drag queens in the city. When her parents divorced, she lived with her father in Seattle, Washington, attended Roosevelt High School and Nova Alternative High School, and worked at McDonald\'s. She took ballet lessons until she was 13. At 15, she officially emancipated herself from her parents and moved to Los Angeles. In 2018 McGowan moved to Mayfair, London. \n', '

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