Madelyn Cline reacts to critics’ fixation on her changing appearance on ‘Outer Banks’

Madelyn Cline knows what you said last season.

The actress, 27, is clapping back at the online chatter about her appearance on “Outer Banks.”

Cline has starred as Sarah Cameron on the Netflix drama, that follows a group of friends on the Outer Banks in North Carolina, for four seasons.

“People love to pay attention to weight specifically,” she told Allure in an interview published Friday. “It’s very bizarre to me. From season to season on ‘Outer Banks,’ my appearance has changed with lots of factors: stress, breakups, healthy or unhealthy habits with food. It’s normal life.”

“But the camera, swear to God, picks up everything,” Cline confessed. “Like, damn. Can I not be on my period? Can I not have a beer the night before?”

She quipped, “In the comment sections, we are not always family.”

“This is my Roman Empire,” Cline said about body image.

“Outer Banks” premiered in 2020 and will kick off its fifth and final season in 2026.

As for filming Season 5, Cline feels “excited” and “ready.”

“I think everybody’s kind of there,” she stated. “I think it’s time to grow up again.” 

The show also stars Chase Stokes as John B, Madison Bailey as Kiara, Jonathan Daviss as Pope, and Drew Starkey as Sarah’s brother Rafe. Rudy Pankow played JJ, who died in Season 4.

While Sarah had a long-running romance with John B, Cline and Stokes, 32, dated for a little over a year in real life.

She has also been linked to musician Jackson Guthy and Pete Davidson.

“The jokes, they write themselves,” Cline teased to the outlet about dating Davidson, 31. “And I said it before, and I’ll say it again, that is my only comment.”

“He has a really cute dog,” she added, “and some really great girlfriends now.”

But Cline isn’t looking to jump back into the dating pool just yet.

“I want to experience this life on my terms first, before I do all the relationship stuff,” the “Knives Out” star admitted. “When I go to work, I get pretty locked in, and I get really, really overwhelmed sometimes when the priorities start stacking up and I’m trying to figure out where to put my energy.”

The mix between the “Stranger Things” alum’s ambition and the feeling she isn’t good enough “causes a little Menty B every now and again.”

“I can’t think too hard about it because then I’ll get really existential and treat myself badly,” she shared. “I have these crazy anxieties, and I get freaked out, and I have, I do have impostor syndrome. And that’s just very human, but also, I can do it. I’ve gotten this far.”

Cline pondered, “What’s the alternative? Xanax? Beta blockers?”

These days, the “Wild Flowers” actress is focused on a slew of upcoming projects.

Cline stars in the upcoming “I Know What You Did Last Summer” reboot and “Day Drinker” alongside Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz.

While on Friday’s episode of Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the “Boy Erased” vet said there is an “attitude of gratitude” from the cast of “Outer Banks” for the show that launched their careers.

“It’s been the better part of my 20s,” she mused. “And it is a security blanket I always go back to and that I always know is going to be there and is in a way, feels like having your training wheels taken off.”

Cline also touched on the bittersweet thought of wrapping the series for good.

“We’ve been in the thick of it for six or seven years. It kicks our a–es. It’s a tough show to shoot, it’s very physically demanding,” explained the South Carolina native. “Well, I always come back, and I’m like, ‘Oh f–k, I forgot how much stamina you need to have to keep up with this show and the elements that we shoot in.’”

“This season, because we realized it’s our last time — our very first day back, it was our last first day,” she expressed. “That’s what’s hitting everyone.”