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“Hello! So just a thing—if you have an opinion about my body, please, please don’t share it with me,” Coughlan wrote on Instagram. “Most people are being nice and not trying to be offensive, but I am just one real life human being and it’s really hard to take the weight of thousands of opinions on how you look being sent directly to you every day.”
Coughlan, who is currently promotingthe forthcoming second season ofBridgerton, went on to write that while she knows she’s a public figure, that doesn’t mean she wants to see opinions about her body filling up her notifications.
Sounds like a reasonable request to us.
This isn’t the first time Coughlan used social media to call out unwanted commentary on her body. In 2018, Coughlan criticized theBritish Theatre Guidefor sending the same reviewer to two shows where Coughlan was a cast member—in both reviews, the writer drew attention to Coughlan’s figure as part of his column.
“Philip Fisher, I know you are a theatre reviewer and your body had no relevance to your job but maybe you’d like me to cruelly review it for you and post it online?“Coughlan tweetedat the time.
Coughlan wrote acolumn inThe Guardianabout being asked about her body in 2018. When she reshared it on Twitter in 2021,she added that"every time I’m asked about my body in an interview, it makes me deeply uncomfortable and so sad [that] I’m not just allowed to just talk about the job I do that I so love.”
Coughlan’s Instagram post mimics a similar refrain that Jonah Hill shared last year. “I know you mean well, but I kindly ask that you not comment on my body,” Hill wrote ina note on Instagram in October.“Good or bad, I want to politely let you know it’s not helpful and doesn’t feel good. Much respect.”
We couldn’t agree more with Coughlan’s sentiments. A person’s body does not define who they are, and no one should be subjected to unsolicited advice about it—or anything, for that matter. We can’t wait to see the stellar Coughlan shine in new seasons ofDerry GirlsandBridgertonlater this year.
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