Nicola Coughlan Had the Classiest Response to a Hater on Instagram

Elizabeth Logan
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Today in boobs, Nicola Coughlan, a.k.a. Penelope Featherington on Bridgerton, a.k.a. Secretly Also [spoiler redacted] on Bridgerton, a.k.a. Diplomat Barbie, a.k.a. Clare on Derry Girls, has issued a firm rebuttal to those questioning her sartorial choices.

The TV star, who is also Teen Vogue’s current cover girl, blessed her 2.9 million Instagram followers with pictures and video from a photo shoot she did with costar Luke Newton, in which she wears a three-piece ensemble by Ganni: a black silk bra with a matching skirt and blazer.

It’s really not all that revealing, but someone just had to pop into her comments to shame her for it.

“Why is she in her bra??” a commenter wrote, and while, sure, benefit of the doubt, they’re just asking a question, come on.

When someone rhetorically asks why a famous actor wore a designer outfit for a fashionable photo shoot, we know what they’re getting at: A woman showed her body without shame, and it makes them uncomfortable.

<h1 class="title">Nicola Coughlan</h1><cite class="credit">Instagram:@nicolacoughlan</cite>

Nicola Coughlan

Instagram:@nicolacoughlan

Thankfully, Nicola Coughlan had the perfect response, succinctly answering this person’s question with a mirror selfie and four words: “’cos it looked good.” She’s right and she should say it.

This comes just a couple days after fellow up-and-coming star Sydney Sweeney posted pictures to her Instagram in which she wears a sweatshirt that says “Sorry for Having Great Tits.” Because yeah, we can notice that Sweeney makes great use of her chest on the red carpet (even her own grandmother thinks she has “the best tits in Hollywood”), but when people start actually claiming that her boobs have the power to end “woke” (yes, a real discourse that happened), we’ve kind of lost the plot.

Because here is the great thing about boobs and people who have them: You don’t have to look! You can literally just not look. Don’t wanna see some boobs? Don’t look at the boobs (and maybe don’t watch Bridgerton). It’s literally that easy. You’re so welcome.

Originally Appeared on Glamour