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Look who’s all grown up!

As she approaches her 17th birthday next month, Bindi Irwin, the daughter of the late Steve Irwin, shared an updated image on Instagram.

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” – S. Westerfeld,” she captioned the black and white selfie.

The budding actress recently shared a shot with her brother Robert, 11.

Last year, the Australian teenager opened up about dressing your age.

“I’m a big advocate for young girls dressing their age,” she told News Corp Australia. “I mean, for me, I look around at a lot of young girls that are my age and they’re always trying to dress older. Whether it’s wearing revealing clothes or hardly wearing any clothes at all, I feel really bad for them. It kind of has the opposite effect in some ways – it kind of does the opposite where it makes you look younger and like you’re trying too hard.”

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” – S. Westerfeld

A photo posted by Bindi Irwin (@bindisueirwin) on Jun 2, 2015 at 1:17am PDT