Eva Amurri opens up about backlash over daring wedding dress
A few weeks ago, Eva Amurri faced criticism because of her daring wedding dress. The daughter of a famous actress has now spoken out, revealing that the comments she read under her photos affected her deeply.
Wedding styles in the showbiz world always stir up strong emotions. This includes the outfits of the guests invited to the celebration and what the bride and groom wear on their big day.
She faced a wave of criticism because of her plunging wedding dress
At the end of June, the internet buzzed with comments under photos from the wedding of Susan Sarandon’s daughter. Eva Amurri vowed her love, fidelity, and honesty in a particularly plunging dress.
To be honest, I think the upper part of the dress is terribly fitted; What a tacky dress with no class; How can you flaunt your breasts like this at your own wedding? Disgusting - visibly displeased internet users wrote under the bride's posts.
See: internet users are appalled by Susan Sarandon’s daughter’s wedding dress: “How can you flaunt your breasts like this?!” The 39-year-old responded
Eva Amurri cried over the words of internet users and recalled the comments under her wedding photos
Although initially, the 39-year-old seemed unfazed by the jibes, a few weeks after the wedding, she confessed via her blog that the critical words hurt her deeply.
It had never occurred to me that people I don’t even know would find my body so offensive, and especially that they would care so much about what I would choose to wear on my own wedding day... she laments, adding that the unexpected comments about her appearance brought her to tears.
I felt hot tears spring to my eyes in a way that brought me right back to Middle School - she described how she felt reading the unflattering comments and compared internet users' reactions to how children behave towards each other in school.
Here were people I didn’t even know and who didn’t know me, spending time and energy typing something that they hoped would bring me one thing and one thing only: Shame, she confessed, clearly disappointed.
The actress's daughter admitted that she had encountered horrible words directed at her online in the past, so she thought she had a thick skin. However, she was quickly surprised at how the hate affected her.
It was the yucky feeling of knowing that there are people out there (and lots of them!) whose immediate reaction upon witnessing my little family’s joy was to try to hurt us.
Susan Sarandon’s daughter explains her daring wedding dress
Eva insists that all she wanted was to "show off her figure and really celebrate her femininity". She recalls that she has always had naturally very large breasts, and their size has changed over the years with each child she breastfed.
Are my breasts the same perkiness they were at 20 years old before they sustained human life three times over? Definitely not - she points out and assures that she does not care about this fact.
Eva cannot understand the behavior of her critics.
It had never occurred to me that people I don’t even know would find my body so offensive, and especially that they would care so much about what I would choose to wear on my own wedding day. (...) I could never in a million years imagine seeing an image of a person living their happiest moment and want to tear that to pieces publicly. Even if I hated them, or everything about what they were wearing, or doing, or whatever.
At the end of her rant, Amurri theorizes that the hatred she experienced boils down to "fear, self-loathing, insecurity, and rage".
I stopped feeling sorry for myself and started feeling sorry for those people - she writes, adding that it’s "chilling to think" that her daughter will grow up at a time when "women's bodies are still a battlefield."
Do you understand her disappointment?
