Florence Pugh criticises ‘vulgar’ comments
British actress Florence Pugh has hit back at ‘vulgar’ comments made by men on social media who critised her body after she wore a sheer dress that showed her breasts in a fashion show.
In an Instagram post on Sunday, she defended her dress choice, saying: “I was excited to wear it, not a wink of me was nervous. I wasn’t before, during or even now after.”
Pugh had walked the red carpet at Valentino’s haute couture show in Rome, wearing a pink gown, along with the comment: “Technically they’re covered?” and urged society to “free the f*****g nipple.”
The comment is an apparent reference to Instagram’s nudity guidelines that ban images of women’s nipples but not men’s.
Pugh, 26, said she had expected the commentary but had found it “interesting to watch… just how easy it is for men to totally destroy a woman’s body, publicly, proudly, for everyone to see”.
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“It isn’t the first time and certainly won’t be the last time a woman will hear what’s wrong with her body by a crowd of strangers, what’s worrying is just how vulgar some of you men can be,” she wrote to her 7.4 million Instagram followers.
Addressing those who had criticised the size of her breasts, she said she had come to accept the “intricacies of my body that make me, me” and was now “happy with all of the ‘flaws’ that I couldn’t bear to look at when I was 14”.
The actress said the reaction had made her wonder “what happened to you to be so content on being so loudly upset by the size of my boobs and body?”
She “promise[d]” to those who had insulted her that life would get “a whole lot easier” if they respected bodies, all women and humans.
Florence has many projects on the horizon – including the release of Don’t Worry Darling, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Dune: Part 2.
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