Bridgerton Actress Nicola Shares Her Worst Fan Experience

Bridgerton actress Nicola Coughlan Shares her worst fan experience about the body-shaming she faced when she was on Bridgerton. Recently, shared a troubling experience with a drunken fan in a bathroom. This come across was part of a wider argument about body image and social ethics.

Speaking to Elle UK, Coughlan remembered the moment with a mixture of disbelief and annoyance.

She said, “The thing I say sometimes that pisses people off is I have no interest in body positivity. There’s a lot of things I’m passionate about, it’s not one of them… That’s someone else’s thing. It’s not mine.”

The actress added that despite being a size 10, she will still be praised as someone who appears on screen as a plus-size actress, comments which she finds “boring”.

Speaking about the reaction to her nude scenes on the show, she said: “What was really bizarre was when I was shooting that series, I was exercising a lot because I knew I had to, so I had lost a bunch of weight – I was probably a size 10 and one of the corsets was a size 8.

Then people talked about how I was plus size and I was like, ‘How f***** are we that I am the biggest woman you want to see on screen?’

“I remember this really drunk girl once talking to me in a bathroom being like, ‘I loved (Bridgerton) because of your body’ and started talking about my body, and I was like, ‘I want to die. I hate this so much’.

“It’s really hard when you work on something for months and months of your life, you don’t see your family, you really dedicate yourself and then it comes down to what you look like – it’s so f****** boring.”

Coughlan also told the magazine that she gives herself more “grace” since receiving her ADHD diagnosis.

She said: “It feels like I got the handbook to my brain that I wasn’t given when I was born.

“I understand things a bit better now, and I give myself a little more grace.”

Her most striking response came during the making of Season 3, when she made a deliberate creative decision to film a very exposed scene as what she described as the ultimate act of defiance.

In 2024, she told Stylist “There’s one scene where I’m very [open] on camera, and that was my idea, my choice.”

She worked closely with Bridgerton intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot to bring the scene to life on her own terms.

Bridgerton has recently streamed its fourth season on Netflix.

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