The “Black Widow” star forcefully addressed the backlash swirling around the sheer hot pink tulle Valentino gown she debuted at the brand’s couture show in Rome on Friday. Pugh said she expected the backlash to the daring ensemble, which fully exposed her breasts, but was taken aback by “how gross” the reaction was to “two cute little nipples” online. “Whether it was negative or positive, we all knew what we were doing. I was excited to wear it, not a wink of nervousness,” she wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday alongside photos from the event. “I wasn’t before, during, or even now after.” “What’s been interesting to watch and watch is how easy it is for men to completely destroy a woman’s body, publicly, proudly, for all to see,” she continued, noting that many of her critics include the “titles work and their work emails. » in their accounts. “It’s not the first time and it certainly won’t be the last time a woman hears what’s going on with her body from a bunch of strangers, what’s disturbing is how gross some of you men can be.” Pugh is seen arriving at the Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter ’22/’23 fashion show on July 8 in Rome. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage) Pugh first revealed the dress on Instagram on Saturday along with the caption, “Technically they’re covered up,” which was apparently enough to satisfy the platform’s notoriously restrictive and often unfairly punitive nudity policy. Pugh shared that some of the responses included people telling her “how disappointed you were by my ‘tiny tits’” or that she “should be ashamed that it’s so ‘flat’.” The negative comments, however, haven’t shaken Pugh’s confidence in the slightest. “I have lived in my body for a long time. I’m fully aware of my breast size and I’m not afraid of it,” she continued. “The most disturbing thing is… Why are you so afraid of breasts? Small? Large? Left? Correctly? Only one? Maybe none? What. Is. So. Fearful.” The Oscar nominee said she credits her self-acceptance to how she was raised “to find strength in the folds of our bodies” among a family of “very strong, powerful, curvy women.” Her upbringing informed how Pugh fought back against toxic beauty standards in Hollywood, including the expectation that her body should be “educated into a view of what is hot or sexually attractive.” “I wore this dress because I know if it’s that easy for you to be blatantly abusive to women in public in 2022, then the answer is that you don’t,” she concluded in the post alongside the hashtag #fuckingfreethefuckingnipple. “I’m growing up. Respect people. Respect bodies. Respect all women. Respect people. Life will get a lot easier, I promise.” Anna Wintour and Pugh were photographed together at the Valentino fashion show. Daniele Venturelli via Getty Images Pugh has previously spoken about the relatively conservative attitudes towards nudity in America in contrast to England, expressing her surprise at how the public here are “quite afraid of bums and nipples”. “I do not know why. Such weird people,” she told Radio Times magazine in 2018. “My parents were very cool and made sure we watched a lot of European movies growing up, so nudity was never a problem for me, as long as it was pretty. “
