Monday 1 August 2022 06:48 PM Dawn French says women 'b******d up' chance at equality by 'becoming Jessica ... trends now
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Dawn French has said women came close to equality, but ‘b*****ed it up’ by becoming Jessica Rabbits.
The actress and comedian , 64, said she feels for her daughter and young girls growing up today who are pressured to achieve an ‘impossible’ version of physical perfection.
Miss French, who has previously opened up about her own weight loss struggles, compared the current trend for big lips, ‘Kardashian shapes’ and a tan to the animated sex symbol from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Comment: Dawn French has said women came close to equality, but ‘b*****ed it up’ by becoming Jessica Rabbits
‘I cannot entirely love perfect people,’ she told the Joe Black Meets podcast. ‘I cannot understand why people only want to show us [how perfect they are].
‘It makes me sad actually, especially with young people. I feel for my own daughter and Jennifer’s [Saunders] daughters – and all the daughters – feeling like they’ve got to have the big lips and they’ve got to be orange and that they’ve got to have lashes on all the time.
‘And that they’ve got to have Kardashian shapes. Impossible stuff. Whereas their flawed real beauty is just heavenly – it’s bliss. It’s bliss. I would love us to
