Lili Reinhart is fed up with teasing, and she has decided to let it be known. The 21-year-old actress plays the role of Betty Cooper in the “Riverdale” series, broadcast on Netflix in France. In the final season, her character does a striptease and ends up in a black lingerie set, dancing on a bar.
A scene that earned him many derogatory comments and bad taste jokes on social networks. Among the most recurring, a photo montage, showing the actress on the left and a model wearing the same outfit on the right, with captions comparing the two young women. “Who wears the outfit better?”, “Lili or the model?” or even “Who is the sexiest?”, she could read.
After two weeks, the actress decided to speak on his Tumblr account. “It’s a poll. A competition. A comparison between two bodies. It feeds judgment and negative comments,” writes the young actress. “I don’t have this model’s body. I’m fully aware of that. I don’t have a thigh gap, an hourglass figure, toned arms or a muscular stomach. I’m not not that girl. How can anyone think I should look like her,” she continued.
Call out the hypocrisy
“It’s very disappointing. This photo was posted by fan accounts. The same accounts that like to talk about the incredible friendship that binds the girls of the series, girl power, feminism of Veronica (a character from Riverdale) , and body-positivism”, she laments. Before adding: “it’s the most hypocritical thing I’ve ever seen”.
“You are the problem, do you understand?” she calls out to her detractors. “You promote the idea that all women should look like this model and that it is not acceptable to look like anything else. This is why eating disorders exist, why young teenagers commit suicide at because of an image problem and that people suffer from dysmorphophobia”, she continues.
Lili Reinhart explains that it is difficult for a young woman to accept her body, especially if society criticizes her and compares her constantly to others. “I hope this message will make you think the next time you want to criticize a woman’s weight or her figure,” concludes the young woman.
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