Alicia Silverstone has opened up about the cruel ‘fatgirl’ comments people made about her figure after she played Batgirl back in 1997.
The 43-year-old actress starred in Batman & Robin alongside the likes of George Clooney and Uma Thurman but the moment was tainted by the paparazzi’s choice to body-shame her.
Explaining what she went through to The Guardian, Alicia said: ‘That definitely wasn’t my favourite film-making experience… ‘They would make fun of my body when I was younger.
It was hurtful but I knew they were wrong.’ The Clueless actress added: ‘I wasn’t confused. I knew that it was not right to make fun of someone’s body shape, that doesn’t seem like the right thing to be doing to a human.’ Sadly, Joel Schumacher’s Batman movie