The internet can be a very mean place, says Florence Pugh
Hollywood star Florence Pugh has observed that the internet can be "a very mean place".
Florence Pugh thinks the internet can be "a very mean place".
The 28-year-old actress is aware of the scrutiny that she faces, and Florence acknowledged that online criticism "never feels good".
The blonde beauty told the October issue of British Vogue magazine: "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.".
Asked if she's always been body confident, Florence replied: "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."
Florence believes she's actually overcome a lot of her own insecurities in recent years.
Speaking about posing for magazine covers, the actress shared: "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."
Florence shaved her head before the 2023 Met Gala, and she believes that the move reflected her personal evolution.
The movie star explained: "I was going through so many [aesthetic] iterations when I was also going through life decisions.
"I was like, ‘Cool, well I don’t look like me. I’m changed. I’m changing.’ Looking back on that summer, I was growing into a new thing."
See the full feature in the October issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from September 24.
