On July 10 during Paris Couture Week, Florence Pugh dazzled in a hot pink see-through dress at Valentino’s Haute Couture show in Rome, Italy. She certainly looked amazing in fuchsia, channeling the Barbiecore trend, but some people started remarking on other things as well.
The actor, who co-stars with singer Harry Styles in Olivia Wilde’s upcoming film “Don’t Worry Darling,” used Instagram to call out body shamers who criticized her for having visible nipples. Whether they are famous or not, criticizing someone’s body is never acceptable, but the 26-year-old unfortunately saw it coming.
Every word Pugh used to take down the trolls on social media was a passionate plea for this misogynistic rhetoric to end. “Listen, I knew when,” she writes.She says: “Listen, I was aware that there would undoubtedly be commentary on the stunning Valentino dress I wore. We all knew what we were doing, whether it was a good or bad thing. I was eager to wear it; I had no anxiety at all. I wasn’t earlier, later, or even now. It’s been fascinating to see how simple it is for men to completely dismember a woman’s body in front of everyone, proudly. You even include your job titles and email addresses in your bio.” A woman has heard what’s wrong with her body from a crowd of strangers before, and she most certainly won’t be the last.
Luckily, Pugh — who played Amy March in “Little Women” — seems unfazed by the trolling. Alongside three pictures of herself with her nipples showing, Pugh continued: “Thankfully, I’ve come to terms with the intricacies of my body that make me, me. I’m happy with all of the ‘flaws’ that I couldn’t bear to look at when I was 14. So many of you wanted to aggressively let me know how disappointed you were by my ‘tiny tits’, or how I should be embarrassed by being so ‘flat chested’.I’ve lived in my body for a long time. I’m fully aware of my breast size and am not scared of it.
“What’s more concerning is…. Why are you so scared of breasts? Small? Large? Left? Right? Only one? Maybe none? What. Is. So. Terrifying. It makes me wonder what happened to you to be so content on being so loudly upset by the size of my boobs and body..?”
