Bridgerton star, Nicola Coughlan, Slams Body Comments

Irish actress and Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has reacted to comments made about her body despite her weight loss. The 39-year-old actress, famously known for her role as Penelope in the Netflix series, revealed that she has no interest in promoting body positivity.

While speaking in an interview with Elle, Coughlan explained that she never used to consider actors’ weights when she saw them on her screen. She added that she does not care about speaking about her body and her weight loss, noting that she has other things that she is passionate about.

“The thing I say sometimes that pisses people off is, ‘I have no interest in body positivity,’. When I was a kid growing up, I never thought about that. I didn’t look at actors and think about their bodies. So, I actually don’t care. There’s a lot of things I’m passionate about, it’s not one of them. That’s someone else’s thing. It’s not mine. What was really bizarre was, when I was shooting that series, I was exercising a lot because I knew I had to, so I had lost a bunch of weight—I was probably a size 10 and one of the corsets was a size 8. And then people talked about how I was plus-size and I was like, ‘How f–ked are we that I am the biggest woman you want to see on screen?’,” she stated.