She’s 14, Going on 140 Characters

 

 “SOME people say: ‘Maude Apatow is my spirit animal.’ yves saint laurent 2012 I get that a lot,” Maude Apatow said. “They tweet it to me.” Over a coconut milk smoothie at Café Gratitude, the trendy vegan restaurant on Larchmont Boulevard here, Maude was describing the rather intense fascination she has inspired on Twitter, where she has over 62,000 followers.

That may not compare to Lady Gaga’s total, but considering she is a 14-year-old just out of braces, not a celebrity and not someone who has done anything outrageous on YouTube, yves saint laurent shoes it’s an impressive fan base.

Of course, Maude, who has long chestnut-colored hair, a pale delicate frame and a face that is at once cherubic and knowing, is not a complete nobody. Her father is Judd Apatow, Hollywood’s comedy king, whose imprimatur is on wildly successful comedies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” which he wrote, directed and produced, and “Bridesmaids,” which he produced.

And her mother is Leslie Mann, the blond, willowy actress who has starred in several of her husband’s films, most notably “Funny People,” ysl shoes in which she played the tempestuous ex-girlfriend of a comedian (played by Adam Sandler) who finds out he has cancer. Maude was also in that film, along with her younger sister, Iris, playing the daughters of Ms. Mann’s character, which they had done before in “Knocked Up.”

But while Maude, who on this day was wearing a short floral sundress and Doc Martens boots, is natural and effervescently childlike on camera, she has made her real mark online. She has been biggest on Twitter, where both her Larry David-like social observations (“It was really uncomfortable when I watched Beaches with my best friend and she didn’t cry”) and straightforward teen musings (“Are black bands on your braces gross?”) have arguably made her as a successor to slightly older Twitter stars like Shelby Fero (75,000 followers), a rising sophomore at U.S.C., whom the comedian Patton Oswalt has praised, yves saint laurent outlet and Megan Amram (260,000 followers), a 2010 Harvard graduate who parlayed her Twitter zingers into a writing job on the NBC series “Parks and Recreation.”