Florence Pugh's Best Body Positive Quotes Through the Years
Florence Pugh's Best Body Positivity Quotes Through the Years: 'Respect People, Respect Bodies'
Florence Pugh has never been afraid to call out unattainable Hollywood beauty standards throughout her career.In 2019, Pugh famously hit back at a review that compared the size of her thighs to those of the WWE pro Saraya Jade Bevis (a.k.a. Paige), who she portrayed in the movie Fighting With My Family."Oh dear," she tweeted in response to the Evening Standard 's story that March. "Singling out my 'chunky' thighs doesn't help normalizing an 'all shape & size' Hollywood. In fact that's part of the problem. I do hope people take more away from the film than the circumference of my hams."The Oscar nominee has also sparked conversation with several of her stunning red carpet looks. In particular, the pink, see-through dress she donned at the Valentino Haute Couture Fashion Show in July 2022 made headlines as it showed off her nipples.Clapping back at haters, she wrote via Instagram at the time, "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. ... 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."Scroll below to read Pugh's most empowering body positivity quotes over the years.
Credit: Marleen Moise/September 2024
"[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," Pugh remarked in an interview with British Vogue . "The one thing I always wanted to achieve was to never sell someone else, something that isn't the real me."
As for how she continued to stay true to herself? "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," she stated.
Credit: Anthony Harvey/ShutterstockFebruary 2023
In an interview with Vanity Fair , Pugh revealed that she doesn't feel pressure to look a particular way to be considered a role model.
"When I started out, my granddad would always tell me off and be like, 'Why are you showing everyone your ugly spots?'" the Midsommar star shared. "He'd be really confused as to why I'd show my cellulite. My answer was like, 'Well, I'd much rather do it than they do it, and then I feel ashamed.'"
When it comes to how she portrays herself in the public eye, she stated, "There's no pretending with me," adding, "When I put on makeup and step in a wonderful dress, I give credit to the people that made me look like that, and I also want my fans to know that a) I don't look like that all the time and b) I also have stress acne, and I also have hairy eyebrows and I also have greasy hair."
She concluded her thoughts, stating, "I've always thought that was a way better way to do it. Just be honest and open — then no one has to call you out for anything. You are who you are."
Credit: James Veysey/Shutterstock forJanuary 2023
"Body image for women is a major thing," Pugh stated while showing off her cooking skills in a Vogue YouTube video . "From the moment you start growing thighs and bums and boobs and all of it, everything starts changing. And your relationship with food starts changing."
She went on to recall a "weird chapter with the beginning of my career" where people in Hollywood found it "confusing" that she wasn't "complying" to fit certain beauty standards.
"I think women, especially young women in Hollywood, are obviously putting themselves in all these ways in order to get whatever opportunity that they need to get because that's just the way it's been."
But as she stated, "I think I definitely put my foot down in that aspect," adding, "I love food."
Credit: Kathy Hutchins/ShutterstockJuly 2022
Calling out critics of her sheer Valentino gown via Instagram , the England native slammed comments regarding disappointment over breast size.
"So many of you wanted to aggressively let me know how disappointed you were by my 'tiny tits,' or how I should be embarrassed by being so 'flat chested,'" she captioned her post. "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, "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-k it and f-k that' whenever anyone expects my body to morph into an opinion of what's hot or sexually attractive."
Pugh ended her post with some words of advice for haters. "Grow up. Respect people. Respect bodies. Respect all women. Respect humans," she declared. "Life will get a whole lot easier, I promise."
Credit: Anthony Harvey/ShutterstockMay 2020
When it came to taking on the role of Russian assassin Yelena Belova for Marvel's Black Widow, Pugh told Elle that she wanted to be a part of the workout and diet process from the very beginning.
"When I got the job, I wanted to know what the regime was," she stated. "I wanted to know whether it was them or me calling the shots. That was a big deal for me. I didn't want to be part of something where I was constantly checked on. And people making sure I was in the 'right' shape. That's not me at all."
Credit: Aurore/ABACA/ShutterstockMarch 2019
After the U.K.'s Evening Standard referred to her thighs as "chunky" in a film review for Fighting With My Family, the Lady Macbeth star took to Twitte r to clarify her thoughts on the .
"No one upset because of the word 'chunky,'" she tweeted. "Whether positive or negative there is totally no need in a film review to highlight how big OR small any part of my body is. Commenting on it like this doesn't educate, it only highlights unnecessarily and that is why people are upset.
