Carrie Fisher slams body shamers: ‘My body hasn’t aged as well as I have’
Carrie Fisher at the Hollywood premiere of “The Force Awakens” (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Carrie Fisher is fed up with people body shaming her because (shocker!) she doesn’t look exactly like she did 35 years ago.
The 59-year-old “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actress took to Twitter in response to body-shaming comments she’s received that compare her current appearance in “The Force Awakens” to how she looked in that famous gold bikini in 1980′s “The Empire Strikes Back.”
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Carrie Fisher in “The Empire Strikes Back”
“Please stop debating about whether or not [I] aged well,” she writes. “Ultimately it hurts all 3 of my feelings. My BODY hasn’t aged as well as I have….”
“My body is my brain bag, it hauls me around to those places and in front of faces where theres something to say or see,” she continues.
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The actress’s tweets were met with a wave of positive comments – and Fisher also retweeted some comments that rang especially true, including one that reads: “Men don’t age better than women, they’re just allowed to age.”
She also retweeted a poignant Tumblr post defending her.
“I get really protective over Carrie Fisher because nerds will go on and on about how cool and great Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford still are, but they’ll always be like, ‘Carrie Fisher sure didn’t age well, huh,’,” the post reads. “And its like you know what? F— you. She aged beautifully. She’s amazing. She’s gorgeous.”
“Just because you can’t fantasize about her returning to the gross metal slave bikini doesn’t mean she isn’t exactly as incredible as her old cast mates.”
