Susan Sarandon's daughter, Eva Amurri, has criticized people who said they were offended by the sight of her cleavage in her wedding dress, saying she felt "hot tears" when she read the hateful comments online. Amurri—a blogger and actor—is the daughter of the Hollywood actor and Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri, who met on the set of the movie in 1981. She was raised by Sarandon and her mother's long-time partner, Tim Robbins.
On June 29, Amurri married chef Ian Hock in Paris, with exclusively sharing the first photos to its account. Unfortunately for Amurri, the comment section was flooded with people criticizing her for wearing a strapless dress, with one commenter saying, "Awful dress!!!! So unflattering! Put them away!" Now Amurri has addressed the comments in a blog post titled: "What My Wedding Dress Taught Me About Why We're F*****" on her website, , referring to the incident as "boobgate." emailed a representative for Amurri for comment on Thursday.
Amurri said she felt beautiful and happy on her special day and was shocked when she took a moment to check on the Instagram post from . "I was so taken aback by the fact that it was already viral..
..and for two reasons completely out of my control: My Breasts," she wrote.
"But here I was, staring at hundreds of cruel comments ...
I felt hot tears spring to my eyes in a way that brought me right back to Middle 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. And for a second, it worked.
" Amurri explained that it wasn't the specific things that people were writing that impacted her—as she said she's had worse things written about her online—but the fact that it felt like people were trying to hurt her family on such a special day. She wrote that she was being "picked apart" by strangers on the internet on a special day when she was "just trying to feel beautiful." Amurri said she never thought people would have such a strong reaction to what her body looked like in the wedding dress that she picked out.
As Amurri was processing what she called "emotional aggression" from people she didn't know, she realized the problem was with those writing hateful comments, not her. She added: "I kept scrolling in shock at the comments, with the lightbulb going off in my brain like a rocket launch: WE ARE COMPLETELY F*****!! What has society come to, when you can neither be sexy elegant, nor modestly elegant, on your own terms, at your own wedding?" The actor questioned why her wedding dress went viral instead of a variety of other more important issues going on in the world. Her own mother regularly shares her political opinions in the media, previously speaking out on the Israel-Hamas war.
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