Olivia Munn fans were weirded out by Bumble exec Sara Foster's comment: 'I want to be Asian in my next life'

There’s nothing unusual about two friends telling each other how gorgeous they look on Instagram, but Olivia Munn‘s fans were a bit confused by her latest interaction.

“I repeat … I want to be Asian in my next life,” Sara Foster, the former fashion model and actress who now works for the dating app Bumble, commented on a photo Munn posted of herself on Sunday.

Rather than call out Foster for saying she wanted to be a certain race, Munn responded that she hopes Foster is Asian in her next life too. She went on to say that she hopes to have Foster’s legs and metabolism, as well as her dad “as a father figure,” in her next life. Trying to ensure the comment about Foster’s dad wasn’t awkward, Munn commented again to add that she didn’t want the Bumble exec’s father in the same way as Katharine McPhee, who is dating David Foster.

While some people interpreted the comment about McPhee as a dig at the singer, they also wasted no time criticizing Foster’s initial comment about wanting to be Asian.

“As flattering as you think this sounds. You might want to erase it,” one Instagram commenter wrote.

“White people don’t know how to compliment without fetishizing a whole continent,” another added.

But some were also irritated that Munn went along with it, speculating that she must not face as much racism as other Asian-Americans.

“It was meant as a compliment, but neither of them realized how it comes off as problematic in a way,” one person wrote. “She wants to be Asian for the beauty but probably doesn’t want the negatives of being Asian. Olivia is half Asian and very white-passing, I doubt she really faces racism as much as we do.”

Others commented on how the whole exchange was “so cringeworthy in every way.”

Foster, for one, didn’t appreciate the insinuation that her comment was racist, and she responded to multiple commenters who criticized her remark. Calling her critics “oversensitive,” Foster wrote that Asian women “are known to be the most beautiful, but more importantly don’t age.”

Munn appeared to take it as a compliment, as Foster intended. But the public conversation still raised some eyebrows.

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