Writer-actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge has revealed that she was “teetering on the edge of a depression” amid a pressure to conform beauty standards. In an interview, the 34-year-old shared that she took writing the comedy-drama series ‘Fleabag’ because she was being offered limiting roles after leaving drama school, and she felt under pressure to become the “ideal version of a woman”.
“It really got under my skin. (There was) this ideal version of a woman everyone had to aspire to from a very young age and the ideal was that she was very sexual and perfect. I felt so angry about it because I didn’t feel I had to justify myself. And I had to prove that first and foremost I had a brain and I was clever. But at the same time I also felt I had to prove that I was pretty and desirable.”
