Florence Pugh has a easy query to the sexist trolls up in arms about her see-through gown: “Why are you so scared of breasts?”
The “Black Widow” star powerfully addressed the commentary swirling across the completely sheer vivid pink tulle Valentino robe she rocked on the model’s high fashion present in Rome on Friday.
Pugh mentioned she anticipated the response to the daring ensemble, which utterly uncovered her chest, however was shocked by “just how vulgar” the response to “two cute little nipples” was on-line.
“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,” she wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday alongside pictures from the occasion. “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,” she continued, noting that lots of her critics embrace their “job titles and work emails” on their accounts.
“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.”
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Pugh first unveiled the gown on Instagram Saturday alongside the caption “Technically they’re covered,” which apparently was sufficient to fulfill the platform’s famously restrictive and infrequently unfairly punishing nudity policy.
Pugh shared that a few of the responses included individuals letting her know “how disappointed you were by my ‘tiny tits’” or that she “should be embarrassed by being so ‘flat chested.’”
The adverse feedback, nonetheless, haven’t shaken Pugh’s confidence within the slightest.
“I’ve lived in my body for a long time. I’m fully aware of my breast size and am not scared of it,” she continued. “What’s more concerning is…. Why are you so scared of breasts? Small? Large? Left? Right? Only one? Maybe none? What. Is. So. Terrifying.”
The Oscar nominee mentioned she credit her self-acceptance to how she was raised “to find power in the creases of our body” amongst a family of “very strong, powerful, curvy women.”
Her upbringing has knowledgeable how Pugh has pushed again towards poisonous magnificence requirements in Hollywood, together with that expectation that her physique ought to “morph into an opinion of what’s hot or sexually attractive.”
“I wore that dress because I know if being loudly abusive towards women publicly in 2022 is so easy for you, then the answer is that it is you who doesn’t know,” she concluded the publish alongside the hashtag #fuckingfreethefuckingnipple.
“Grow up. Respect people. Respect bodies. Respect all women. Respect humans. Life will get a whole lot easier, I promise.”
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Pugh has beforehand spoken concerning the comparatively conservative attitudes towards nudity in America versus her native England, expressing her shock at how audiences listed below are “quite scared of bums and nipples.”
“I don’t know why. Such strange people,” she told Radio Times journal in 2018. “My parents were very cool and made sure we watched lots of European films when we grew up, so nudity has never been a problem for me, as long as it’s done beautifully.”
