Florence Pugh Says 'Nasty' Comments About Her Weight Are 'Really Painful'

Mar. 15, 2025

Florence Pugh for British Vogue.Photo:Venetia Scott/Vogue Magazine. See the full feature in the October issue of British Vogue available newsstands from Tuesday 24 September.

Venetia Scott/Vogue Magazine. See the full feature in the October issue of British Vogue available newsstands from Tuesday 24 September.

Florence Pughsays the Internet is “a very mean place."

“It’s so hard,” Pugh, 28, toldBritish Voguefor their October issue. “It’s really painful to read people being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight. It never feels good.”

She continued, “The one thing I always wanted to achieve was to never sell someone else, something that isn’t the real me.”

As she toldElleUKlast year, “I speak the way I do about my body because I’m not trying to hide the cellulite on my thigh or the squidge in between my arm and my boob.”

Florence Pugh on the cover of British Vogue, Oct. 2024.Venetia Scott/Vogue Magazine. See the full feature in the October issue of British Vogue available newsstands from Tuesday 24 September.

InBritish Vogue,she said her bluntness doesn’t come from a conscious effort to appear confident: “I think it’s just, like, I don’t want to be anyone else."

TheMidsommaractress shared that magazine cover shoots — like the one she shot forBritish Vogue— are “a muscle I’ve learnt to be all right at.”

“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,” Pugh said.

“But now I know what I want to show. I knowwhoI 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.”

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The actress said she didn’t balk at shaving her head to play cancer patient AlmutWe Live in Time,which will be in theaters Oct. 11. It was “completely important that you see her head and we see her shaving it – it was just always a no-brainer," she said.

“You have the honour of doing something to yourself that is totally in support of the character,” Pugh said, adding “I’ve never found it a challenge to be acting in pain.”

Florence Pugh for British Vogue.Venetia Scott/Vogue Magazine. See the full feature in the October issue of British Vogue available newsstands from Tuesday 24 September.

In fact, she said, “I sometimes prefer it. That’s always the most important thing, whatever I do. I feel like it’s my duty to playhumanandugly, to translate whatlooks realand whatfeels painful– whether that’s an ugly cry or a face that doesn’t settle or a stomach that sits [isn’t held in] when you’re naked.”

What’s important, she told the publication, is “that I’m a good person and people feel good in my presence.”

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