She’s got beauty and brains.
Melanie Lynskey took to Twitter to clap back at “America’s Next Top Model” winner Adrianne Curry, who she purports body-shamed her online on Wednesday.
In a now-deleted post, Curry, 40, looked as if it would slam Lynskey’s figure in a photograph from an InStyle cover shoot, claiming she didn’t fit her “The Last of Us” role as a “post-apocalyptic warlord.”
“Her body says lifetime of luxury … not post apocalyptic warlord. where is linda hamilton while you need her?” Curry wrote on Twitter, referring to the “Terminator” actress’s rippling muscles and seemingly criticizing Lynskey’s curvier body type.
The tweet was shared by Lynskey, 45, in a screenshot, where she bashed Curry’s comment.
“Firstly- this can be a photo from my cover shoot for InStyle magazine, not a still from HBO’s The Last Of Us,” she tweeted. “And I’m playing a one that meticulously planned & executed an overthrow of FEDRA. I’m imagined to be SMART, ma’am. I don’t should be muscly. That’s what henchmen are for.”
While others online applauded her looks — calling the HBO star “gorgeous,” “incredible” and “healthy” — Curry attempted to right her unsuitable by claiming she was critiquing the character, not Lynskey personally.
“She edited out my tweet where I said she had an ideal hour glass frame that I didn’t associate with warriors,” the model wrote in a subsequent tweet. “Actors taking character criticism as personal attacks is mind blowing.”
“Her body is ideal. Not warlord perfect,” she added in one other post. “I’m talking a couple of fictional character. I also said she was sorry voiced and short. The fictional character.”
Her responses prompted backlash from fans of the HBO series, who bashed the model for “fat-shaming” the actress, writing, “saying someone’s body looks inappropriate is…still…personal.”
Sarcastically, within the very cover story at the middle of the digital feud, Lynskey spoke about feeling “drained” of others commenting on her body.
“Sometimes, I get uninterested in hearing about my body, even when it’s positive, I just, you understand, feel like I want a break from interested by it and hearing about it and I feel all women feel that way,” she told InStyle on the time.
Lynskey added that she hopes to normalize her body type on-screen for girls who look much like her.
“I’m trying to only say to myself, ‘OK, you’re normalizing this, and hopefully more women will come along who appear to be you, and other people won’t feel like they must say things like that,’ because there may be form of a backhanded compliment,” she said, referring to the comments she received about her figure.
Lynskey has spoken about being body-shamed quite a few times before, including in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter last 12 months where she discussed ravenous herself to remain slim when she was younger.
The actress has said that while filming “Coyote Ugly” she felt pressure to follow a strict weight loss plan as a result of the scrutiny on set.
“I used to be already ravenous myself and as thin as I could possibly be for this body, and I used to be still a [size] 4,” she admitted, calling the extreme regimens “ridiculous.”
She recalled being forced into Spanx during wardrobe changes and makeup artists giving her “a bit more jawline.”
“Just the feedback was continuously like, ‘You’re not beautiful. You’re not beautiful,’” she added.
