“Stop being mean to beautiful women!” Anya Taylor-Joy fans are in an uproar over a resurfaced 2016 interview in which the then-20-year-old was asked if she’s self-conscious because her “eyes are so far apart”
- The actress rose to prominence for her role in the horror film The Witch in 2015
- The following year, she sat down with W Magazine to discuss her newfound fame
- The star, then 20, was asked if she felt “self-conscious” about her facial features
Fans of Anya Taylor-Joy rushed to show their support after an interview surfaced asking the star if she was insecure because her “eyes are so far apart.”
The actress, who rose to fame thanks to her role in horror film The Witch in 2015, sat down with W magazine the following year to discuss her newfound fame.
During the chat, when asked if she had ever felt “self-conscious” about her facial features, Anya, who was 20 at the time, candidly revealed that she had been bullied for her appearance.
The interview resurfaced online over the weekend, prompting social media users to express their disgust and shower Anya, now 27, with praise.
Fans of Anya Taylor-Joy rushed to show their support after an interview surfaced asking the star if she was insecure because her “eyes are so far apart”
The actress, who rose to prominence for her role in horror film The Witch in 2015, spoke to W Magazine the following year to discuss her newfound fame.
The first question Anya was asked by the publication read, “You have those beautiful eyes and they are so far apart.
“Did they make you self-conscious as a child?”
And in response, Anya exposed her insecurities about her features.
She said, “I definitely remember when Facebook was a thing and I was never aware my eyes were wide apart and when someone tagged me in a picture with a fish and they were like, ‘This is you because you eyes are like here.”
“I was really angry about it and I didn’t like it.”
The Queen’s Gambit star added that she hadn’t been able to look at herself in the mirror for a “very long time” after that.
Anya continued, “I still don’t really spend much time in front of mirrors because I don’t really deal with my face. Alas, all of you.’
Fortunately, however, she also told the interviewer that she had “grown into herself” and learned to become “a little less clumsy.”
During the chat, after being asked if she had ever felt “self-conscious” about her facial features, Anya, who was 20 at the time, candidly revealed that she had been bullied for her appearance.
The interview resurfaced online over the weekend, prompting social media users to express their disgust and shower Anya, now 27, with praise
The interview resurfaced on social media this weekend, sparking furious fans rushing to defend the actress.
One of them wrote, “I see this story emerging that Anya Taylor-Joy is somehow an “unconventional” or “irregular” kind of attractive, which really packs a punch to society’s already unrealistic standards of beauty .’
Another added: “This is heartbreaking. It’s simply because she looks ethereal, and not like the cookie-cutter influencer/Kardashian image that’s absolutely friggen all over the place.
“Every time I see her on screen I am just hypnotized and mesmerized by her beauty. She’s my #1 girl crush until the day I die.”
And a third said, ‘She’s literally one of the prettiest ever! It’s so sad that a few ugly, miserable losers on the internet can ruin someone’s self-esteem like that.”