“I’m tired and I’m angry.” The actress Esther Expósito received the Bazaar Woman of the Year 2024 award on Monday and, when she went to collect it, the first thing she did was to express her “support for all women victims of abuse “. It was then a question of announcing that she was going to take advantage of her speech to “let off steam” after having reflected on “the very different forms of violence” from which women suffer.
“I realized how normal it is for a person to hide behind a screen and social media to criticize a woman’s body and point fingers at her,” she said. “Today I want to be the one who calls out these people and tells them that what they are doing is wrong. There is no opinion, let alone publicly, about another person’s physique. And even less so if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
“I read it’s stupid that I have undergone around fifty surgical procedures and cosmetic retouching on my face since the age of 19. And I wonder how much longer I will have to continue reading it,” he said, recalling his beginnings, when he rose to fame as the protagonist of the series. Elite in 2018.
The interpreter has just brand new The tearsthe film by Pedro Martín-Calero which won the Silver Shell for best director at the last San Sebastián Film Festival. As part of the promotion of the horror film, Expósito visited the set of The revolt from TVE, interviewed by David Broncano. The actress criticized the comments that had since been made about her physique on the networks.
“Apparently I stretched my face with Botox or something,” he lamented. “If that were the case, I would have my right, and no stranger should come and ask me anything because I didn’t ask them and because it’s my face and that’s why I do what I want.” “But it turns out not,” he concluded, “I gained a little weight and that’s it. Because believe it or not, women, like men, grow, change, gain or lose weight And thank goodness, because that means we are alive and we are not dolls.
“I ask that we stop studying with a magnifying glass, analyzing and questioning in such an exhaustive way, especially women,” he concluded.
