Florence Pugh Says It’s ‘Exhausting’ Being a Woman in Hollywood, Talks Stars Being ‘Torn Apart’ for Their Bodies

For Florence Pugh, being in Hollywood and dealing with unrealistic beauty standards was exhausting.

The We live in time star, 28, spoke with The Times and was honest about how young women in the public eye, like herself, are treated and why she likes to go against the norm.

“Women must stay within thin lines, otherwise they are called divas, demanding, problematic. And I don’t want to fit into the stereotypes created by others,” she explained. “It’s really exhausting for a young woman just to be in this industry, and actually in other industries as well. But I was always encouraged to have a voice.”

Pugh recalled how she initially felt like she was underrepresented in the industry. Because of this, the actress said she likes to challenge what the public expects women to look like.

“I remember the horrible headlines about Keira Knightley not being skinny anymore, or seeing women being ripped apart despite being talented and beautiful,” she told the paper. “The only thing people want to talk about is some useless crap about how they look. And so I didn’t care to follow those rules. I loved challenging ideas that I didn’t like.”

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“I wanted to challenge how women are perceived, how we should look,” she continued. “I wasn’t actually trying to challenge. I just wanted to be there, to make room for a version of the person who wasn’t all that she once had to be. I’m proud of myself and of looking the way I do — I’m really interested in people who are still mad at me for not losing weight yet or who just hate my nose ring. I won’t be able to simply change the way things are — but I can certainly help young women coming into this industry by enabling conversations where they haven’t been before.”

In October 2023, Pugh also spoke about accepting her body in an interview with Ella UK.

“I talk the way I talk about my body because I’m not trying to hide the cellulite on my thigh or the thorn between my arm and breast: I’d rather put it all on display,” she said. “I think the scariest thing for me is the cases where people were upset that I showed ‘too much’ of myself.”

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The Oppenheimer the star then went on to talk about the backlash she received for wearing a sheer pink collared dress at the Valentino couture show in Rome last summer.

“When it all went down with the Valentino pink dress a year ago, my nipples were visible through a piece of fabric, and that really upset people,” Pugh said. “People are afraid of freedom; the fact that I am comfortable and happy.”

The actress added that she thought the reaction showed that people were “terrified of the human body”.

“Suppressing women by commenting on their bodies has worked for a very long time,” she said at the time.

“I think we’re in this situation now where a lot of people are saying, ‘I’m in pain…’ Unfortunately, we’ve become so terrified of the human body that we can’t even look at my two cute little nipples behind the fabric in a non-sexual way,” he continued. Pugh. “We have to keep reminding everyone that there is more than one reason for women’s bodies [to exist].”

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