Florence Pugh on Her ‘Painful’ Physique Feedback and Weight Shaming

Florence Pugh exploded on the scene in 2019 with a breakout position as Amy March in Little Girls. Since then, she’s starred in big films like Hawkeye, Don’t Fear, Darling, and Oppenheimer. However, sadly, feedback about her physique and confidence adopted. Now, the 28-year-old actor is talking out about how these feedback have impacted her.

Pugh informed British Vogue in a brand new interview on Wednesday that she’s struggled with all of the commentary about her physique, together with the scrutiny of her nipples in 2022 after she wore a sheer Valentino costume. “It’s so arduous,” she mentioned within the interview. “[The internet’s] a really imply place. It’s actually painful to learn folks being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight.”

The Dune 2 star mentioned that the commentary “by no means feels good.” However Pugh additionally mentioned that it’s vital for her to be genuine. “The one factor I all the time needed to realize was to by no means promote another person, one thing that isn’t the actual me,” she mentioned.

Pugh additionally addressed criticism that she’s too assured. “I don’t assume it’s confidence in hoping folks like me. I feel it’s simply, like, I don’t wish to be anybody else,” she mentioned within the interview, making it clear she’s not attempting to be something apart from who she is. “I’m not a mannequin,” mentioned Pugh. However she additionally famous that she must do photograph shoots as a part of her job. “It’s portraying a very completely different model of myself that I don’t essentially consider in,” she mentioned. “You need to consider that you simply should be in these pages being stunning. However now I do know what I wish to present. I do know who I wish to present.”

That is hardly Pugh’s first time clapping again at criticism. In 2022, she shared a prolonged put up on Instagram, happening the offensive after receiving criticism for going braless below that see-through Valentino costume. “So lots of you needed to aggressively let me understand how disillusioned you have been by my ‘tiny tits,’ or how I ought to be embarrassed by being so ‘flat chested,’” she wrote within the Instagram caption. “I’ve lived in my physique for a very long time. I’m totally conscious of my breast dimension and am not afraid of it.”

She ended that put up on this be aware: “Develop up. Respect folks. Respect our bodies. Respect all girls. Respect people. Life will get a complete lot simpler, I promise.”

Pugh additionally had this to say in her interview with British Vogue: “I do know who I wish to be and I do know what I appear like. There’s no insecurities about what I’m anymore.”