This is a photo of Busy Philipps at the I Feel Pretty premiere. The dress is Christian Siriano and I love everything from the ballgown skirt to the sparkles, full drama! Busy can really carry these big dresses. I wish she’d done something else with her hair though, your eye kind of stops at the neck of the dress.

As Kaiser discussed, the initial buzz about I Feel Pretty was that it was sending the wrong message. This was my impression based on the trailer as well. Like Amy Schumer, Busy would have us believe that’s wrong. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Busy argues that the movie is empowering and all about true self-confidence. She also asserts that once we see it, we will love it. Only, she was incredibly self-defensive as she said it and her response to naysayers was to tell them to go f—k themselves.

On criticism of I Feel Pretty
For me the bummer is only that people started the discussion off a 20-second trailer of an hour-and-a-half film that they didn’t see yet, which a) is unfair and b) is the nature of the time we’re living in, where snap judgments are everybody’s bread and butter. As you know writing for The Daily Beast, the constant need for content on every website and everything, you want as much clickbait as possible. So the thing that’s the most salacious or the biggest headline is going to get the most views, right?

People f-ing love the movie… I think once people see it, they understand that the joke is not on Amy and her looks.

She’s “allowed to feel insecure”
A woman said to me yesterday, ‘Well you’ve always been beautiful… I’m like, are you f-ing kidding me? When I started in this business people told me to remove every mole on my face, to lose 15 pounds. Like, go fuck yourself. I’m allowed to feel insecure as well. Just because you feel like I’m prettier than whatever, that’s the idea, that we’re all sort of f-ed and in our own world. It’s hard to look outside of ourselves.

My only point about this and about the trailer is that I think it’s incredibly reductive to say that one person’s journey is less than because you think that they should feel a different way about themselves. Your judgment of someone else’s appearance influencing the way you think they should feel about themselves isn’t fair. That’s my point.

On her Instagram stories and criticism of her exploiting Heath Ledger’s death
Truly, when I started doing the Instagram Stories, it was just a different way for me to communicate and be entertaining. That’s all I wanted it to be. So when people respond to that and they want to post it on People.com, or HuffPo or whatever. That’s so exciting. But it’s not real. It doesn’t exist.

Oh my god, someone took offense to the fact that I had a relationship with someone who died. Go f-k yourself!

[From The Daily Beast]

I’m not disparaging Busy’s point that everyone has their own journey to confidence and we can’t diminish others because we think we had it harder. I’ll bet it stung hearing that she should lose weight and change herself cosmetically. She was told this in Hollywood, an industry that tells everyone they aren’t physically good enough. Of course she’s allowed to feel insecure, but can Busy not see the difference between her experience and the experience of people who are not conventionally attractive?

Busy might also want to tone down her rhetoric about how people feel about the film. They don’t “f-ing love the movie.” Most of the critics who saw it disliked it. Kristy Puchko at Pajiba broke down all the ways that I Feel Pretty missed the self-confidence message. The movie does fat shame and it does poke fun at a woman having the audacity to find herself attractive, all while using an attractive and normal-sized actress.

I get that Busy has a lot riding on this film. Not only is it a bigger role than she’s had in a while, her husband co-wrote and directed it, so all the criticism comes back to her family. Plus, her best friend, Michelle Williams, has a small part. But Busy is not going to be able to tell every film goer who disagrees with her to go f—k themselves. She simply won’t have time.

Here are more premiere pictures. Michelle is wearing Louis Vuitton and I really like the ’70s vibe the gown has. I have a separate photo of her because Busy’s dress is kind of eating hers in all their photos together.

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