Florence Pugh on the Comments About Her Body: “[The internet’s] a very mean place”

If you remember, we’ve recently provided you with a list of the most popular young actors today, and among the names on that list was that of Florence Pugh. As we’ve said:

“Florence Pugh is there. She has appeared in numerous movies, both in more and less serious roles, showing incredible versatility, as well as some incredible talent. Whether or not you think that she deserves a spot on this list in front of some other names, you cannot deny that she has the talent and the stance to be a major name in the industry. She knows how to stand up for herself and that is always something that we can appreciate and support.“

Florence Pugh is undoubtedly a major star, as her work on Little Women, Oppenheimer, and various MCU projects confirms. But, at the same time, she is a very unconventional person and actress in general, which is reflected in more ways than one.

One of these aspects is her unconventional approach to her own body, as Pugh refuses to adhere to generalized beauty standards and just wants to be herself. Of course, some toxic Internet trolls keep shaming her for that, and in a recent interview, the actress revealed how she reacts to that.

The interview was given to the British Vogue magazine, and if you follow the link, you will be able to read an exceedingly interesting article about Pugh, her life, and her career. Among the questions raised was her body image, something we have mentioned above, and the actress decided to say how she actually feels when she reads the toxic comments online:

It’s so hard. [The internet’s] a very mean place. It’s really painful to read people being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight. It never feels good. The one thing I always wanted to achieve was to never sell someone else, something that isn’t the real me. (…) I don’t think it’s confidence in hoping people like me. I think it’s just, like, I don’t want to be anyone else.

… but I’m not a model. It’s portraying a completely different version of myself that I don’t necessarily believe in. You have to believe that you deserve to be in those pages being beautiful. But now I know what I want to show. I know who I want to show. I know who I want to be and I know what I look like. There’s no insecurities about what I am anymore.

Source: Vogue

The answer doesn’t surprise us, and we can only support Florence in her way of life and condemn the toxic trolls who think that they have a right to belittle people because of their own frustrations and insecurities.

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