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Ashley Judd calls ‘puffy face’ criticism ‘gendered and misogynistic’ in Daily beast op-ed
Ashley Judd has responded to allegations she’s had plastic surgery in an opinion piece for the Daily Beast. The actress claims that the rumour “embodies what all girls and women in our culture, to a greater or lesser degree, endure every day, in ways both outrageous and subtle.”
“If this conversation about me is going to be had, I will do my part to insist that it is a feminist one, because it has been misogynistic from the start,” Judd says in the essay, which also notes that many of the reporters speculating about her appearance are female friends of hers. “Who makes the fantastic leap from being sick, or gaining some weight over the winter, to a conclusion of plastic surgery? Our culture, that’s who. The insanity has to stop, because as focused on me as it appears to have been, it is about all girls and women.”
