Nicola Coughlan at The Fashion Awards in December 2024 via Associated PressNicola Coughlan has laid out why she’s definitely not here for the discussions about her body that have arisen since she shot to international fame in Bridgerton. AdvertisementLuke Newton and Nicola Coughlan in season three of Bridgerton LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX“I was probably a size 10 and one of the corsets was a size eight,” she said. AdvertisementAs the person in question began talking more about her body, Nicola admitted she became deeply uncomfortable (“I was like, ‘I want to die. “It’s so fucking boring.”AdvertisementBack in 2024, around the release of Bridgerton’s third season, Nicola shared that she’d grown tired of people suggesting her nude scenes in the Netflix period drama were “brave”. It just felt like the biggest ‘fuck you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body,” she said, describing the sequence as “amazingly empowering”.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2026 11:08 UTC