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Florence Pughis comfortable in her skin.
TheWonderactress, who is on the cover ofVogue’s winter issue, candidly shared with the magazine that, growing up, she was taught to not be self-conscious about her body. Learning to live that way made her comfortable as an adult to not mind when she might “smell after a workout,” notice “spots” when she’s stressed or even wear sheer dresses whenever she pleases.
She’s been doing just that lately, including wearing hernow-infamous sheer pink Valentino dresslast July. At the time, she shared photos onInstagramof the look, jokingly writing, “Technically they’re covered?” referring to her nipples, which were visible through the pink fabric.
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What ensued was far too much commentary on the actress, now 27, and why it is or is not okay for her to wear such a thing. She wrote onInstagramthat she knew there would be"commentary" around her “incredible” dress.
“I was excited to wear it, not a wink of me was nervous. I wasn’t before, during or even now after,” she added. “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..?”
“I’ve never been scared of what’s underneath the fabric,” Pugh toldVoguein her latest feature. “If I’m happy in it, then I’m gonna wear it. Of course, I don’t want to offend people, but I think my point is: How can my nipples offend you that much?”
Pughpreviously defended her looktoHarper’s Bazaarin August last year, telling the magazine that she was “comfortable” with her “small breasts.”
“And showing them like that — it aggravated [people] that I was comfortable,” she added.
She wants to take the conversation one step further now, though, tellingVoguethat the criticism is concerning. “It’s very important that we do this,” she said. “I know that some people might scoff at me saying that, but if a dress with my breasts peeking through is encouraging people to say, ‘Well, if you were to get raped, you would deserve it,’ it just shows me that there’s so much more work to do.”
source: people.com
