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 tear down the haters on social media was a heartfelt plea for this misogynistic rhetoric to end. “Hey, I knew when I wore that gorgeous Valentino dress that there would undoubtedly be a criticism on it,” she writes. 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 before, later, or even today. It’s been fascinating to observe how simple it is for guys to completely dismember a woman’s body in front of everyone, proudly. You even provide your job titles and email addresses in your bio.
The English star, who has two sisters and a brother and was raised by a dancer and a restaurateur, went on to credit her family for bringing her up to be so confident in her skin. She wrote: “I’m very grateful that I grew up in a household with very strong, powerful, curvy women. We were raised to find power in the creases of our body. To be loud about being comfortable. It has always been my mission in this industry to say ‘f*ck it and f*ck that’ whenever anyone expects my body to morph into an opinion of what’s hot or sexually attractive.”
