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.
Pugh spoke out against the trolls in a powerful takedown on social media, and every word is a passionate call for this misogynistic rhetoric to change. She writes: “Listen, I knew when I wore that incredible Valentino dress that there was no way there wouldn’t be a commentary on it. Whether it be negative or positive, we all knew what we were doing. I was excited to wear it, not a wink of me was nervous. I wasn’t before, during or even now after. What’s been interesting to watch and witness is just how easy it is for men to totally destroy a woman’s body, publicly, proudly, for everyone to see. You even do it with your job titles and work emails in your bio..? “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.”
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..?”
