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Entertainment January 18, 2017
Bryce Dallas Howard looks up to the Kardashians for tips on dressing her “curvy” figure.
The “Black Mirror” star credits more inclusive fashion design to the Kardashians, who famously take pride in their voluptuous silhouettes.
“I’m curvy, but I’m from Greenwich, Connecticut, so I’m very prude,” she told the women of “The View,” adding that the styles of stars such as Kim Kardashian have emboldened her to wear more daring items, like fitted pencil skirts.
“I think watching the Kardashians and seeing how they dress their body and seeing how much they embrace their curves… more clothes came out with bigger butts. And I was like, I can fit in those pencil skirts!” she said.
Howard, 35, famously made headlines for admitting that she had purchased her Jenny Packham dress for the 2016 Golden Globes off the rack. Speaking about it with the women of “The View,” she couldn’t understand the fuss. “Isn’t that how we all get clothes?” she asked.
“It’s sort of tricky,” she revealed, noting that “you can’t really borrow clothes unless you are borrowing it off of the runway, and that’s one body type.”
Instead, Howard budgets “really well” to purchase her own dress so she can “control this and feel calm about it, and just do it the way I’ve shopped my whole life.”
The dedicated actress told Marie Claire that she had gained 30 pounds for her role in the premiere episode for season three of Netflix hit “Black Mirror,” which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
“In the culture we live in, there’s this pervasive, shared agreement that there’s a certain body type to admire, and it isn’t actually based on anything real or substantive,” she told the publication.
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Howard said, “This episode asks, ‘what are the ways we oppress our authentic selves?’ and that’s a true form of oppression for women.”
She also had a particular connection to the episode’s online popularity theme as she had just joined social media two weeks before getting offered the part.
Of course, she had made a splash on social media long before then, when she found her “Jurassic World” character Claire skewered for wearing heels while running from a T-Rex in the 2015 blockbuster.
Kay Murray tweeted, “Jurassic World – the genetically modified dinosaurs, I could buy. The fact that Aunt Claire kept her heels on throughout, I could not.”
And Amita Joshi echoed her concerns, posting, “What kind of a moron wears heels around a Jurassic Park? Trainers woman, trainers.”
Howard continued to defend her character on “The View,” saying, “I felt like it was right for the character… it made a lot of sense to me. This is a woman who’s comfortable in the corporate world.
“I don’t know if running in heels can ever be called sensible. But in the scheme of things they were not stilettos.”
What kind of a moron wears heels around a Jurassic Park? Trainers woman, trainers.
— Amita Joshi (@amitacjoshi) June 26, 2015
See you soon, @BryceDHoward pic.twitter.com/dSHIBRw8C0
— Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) December 1, 2016
Howard is returning to the role for the upcoming sequel, to be released in 2018, and jokes have already been made on behalf of the infamous shoe choice.
Colin Trevorrow, who directed “Jurassic World” and is returning as writer and producer of the sequel, tweeted a collage of women’s boots, with the message, “See you soon, @BryceDHoward.” Twitter ran with it, creating the hashtag “#NoHeels2018.”
