Eva Amurri defends Olivia Culpo’s wedding ceremony costume after merciless backlash

Susan Sarandon‘s daughter Eva Amurri has defended fellow bride Olivia Culpo‘s wedding dress after both bride’s received criticism from cruel trolls, saying it was ‘impossible to be a woman’. 

Eva, 39, tied the knot with chef Ian Hock in late June, but said comments over the way her chest looked in her strapless Kim Kassas gown reduced her to tears.

Meanwhile model Olivia’s ‘traditional and conservative’ dress was branded as ‘nothing’ and ‘absent of personality’ when she walked down the aisle the very same day with footballer Christian McCaffrey.

Writing on her Happily Eva After blog Eva said: ‘[Olivia]  had done what she had set out to do, and her day was absolutely perfect for her and for her new husband,’.

‘When I looked at the images of Olivia on her wedding day (and I don’t know her at all by the way), I wasn’t seeing how right or wrong her dress would be for ME,’

Eva continued: ‘I was seeing a woman who was stepping gracefully and with power into the next chapter of her life — and who was doing it on her own terms, on HER DAY.’ 

It comes after Olivia broke her silence over the backlash following new husband Christian branded an influencer ‘evil’ for their comments.

The former beauty queen was roundly criticised for her high-necked ensemble and a Vogue Interview in which she revealed her husband found her ‘most beautiful when’s she wearing something timeless, covered and elegant. 

She told People: ‘I was definitely very surprised. I feel like I personally like to give people the benefit of the doubt. And unfortunately, I feel like the words I said were spun out of context to fit an agenda that I did not have.

‘I loved every part of my wedding because I love my husband and the people we got to celebrate that day with The choices that I made are because I wanted to feel like they’re choices I could be proud of in 50 years. And that’s it.’

She said of choosing the dress: ‘I wanted to feel like myself in every sense of the word,. And I think that that’s where my decision to be more pared down came in. 

‘Stylistically I had a vision. Stylistically, I felt like I was making a decision that was going to stand the test of time, and that’s it. I felt very comfortable in it, for what it’s worth. I was on the water and there was a very nice breeze.’

She previously said of the gown: ‘I didn’t want it to exude sex in any way, shape or form.’

Eva returned to her Instagram Story on Wednesday to further prod critics who were left ‘scandalized’ by her ample cleavage.

According to PEOPLE, she responded to the online backlash again by turning an iconic 1957 photo of Sophia Loren side-eyeing a busty Jayne Mansfield into a now-deleted meme.

In it, Eva playfully reminded naysayers that her ’32F boobs’ were just ‘minding their business’ on her wedding day.

She continued the fun in two follow-up IG Story posts as she joked that she also had her ‘t*ts out’ at her rehearsal dinner.

Eva previously reflected on the nasty comments she received in an unflinchingly honest post shared to her blog, and she admitted that the intense hate made her cry.

She explained that she was on ‘cloud nine’ after the nuptials and could hardly wait to share the images with the world; but immediately, she was ‘taken aback’ by the response that she received.

‘When I checked in on the post… I was so taken aback by the fact that it was already viral… and for two reasons completely out of my control: My Breasts,’ she wrote.

‘It had never occurred to me that people I don’t even know would find my body so offensive, and especially that they would care so much about what I would choose to wear on my own wedding day.’ 

Eva – whom Susan shares with Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri – said she had ‘always been naturally very large-chested’ and that her breast size had ‘fluctuated’ over the years as she welcomed her three kids and breastfed them.

She is a mother to daughter Marlowe, eight; and sons Major and Mateo, both four, from her nine-year marriage to former soccer star Kyle Martino, 43. 

Eva added that ‘as any person with huge breasts knows,’ the more your chest was ‘exposed and opened up,’ the more ‘flattering clothes is to your whole figure’ – which she specifically kept in mind while searching for the perfect dress to say ‘I do’ in.

‘I had purposefully gone into my wedding dress shopping wanting to show my figure and really celebrate myself as a woman – body parts included,’ she continued. 

‘”Sexy” and “elegant” were two words that I mentioned at every dress appointment.’

She included a few of the ‘cruel’ comments in the post, which read, ‘Yeah strapless dresses aren’t for everyone,’ ‘Awful, inappropriate dress,’ ‘Awful dress. So unflattering. Put them away,’ ‘That’s the weirdest display of tatas my eyes have ever seen,’ and ‘Droopy [boobs].’

‘I felt hot tears spring to my eyes in a way that brought me right back to middle school,’ Eva reflected of reading the mean messages. 

‘Here were people I didn’t even know and who didn’t know me, spending time and energy typing something that they hoped would bring me one thing and one thing only: Shame. And for a second, it worked.’

The star said she had her fair share of ‘horrible things directed at her on the internet in the past,’ so she thought she had a thick skin.

But the ‘yucky feeling’ of knowing that there were so many ‘people out there whose immediate reaction upon witnessing her little family’s joy was to try to hurt her’ really brought her down.

‘I was being picked apart by strangers for things I try to never qualify about myself (what my breasts look like in clothes), because I’m a human being just trying to feel beautiful, be a good person, raise my kids, and enjoy my life,’ she continued. 

‘Perhaps stupidly, it had never even occurred to me that people would have such a strong reaction to what my body looked like in a dress I picked for my own wedding.

‘When you are processing this type of emotional aggression from strangers, it is so unsettling. 

‘I could never in a million years imagine seeing an image of a person living their happiest moment and want to tear that to pieces publicly. Even if I hated them.’

She theorized that the hate came down to ‘fear, self-loathing, insecurity, and rage.’

‘I stopped feeling sorry for myself and started feeling sorry for those people,’ she added.

Eva said she ‘shudders at the thought’ that her daughter will be growing up at a time ‘when women’s bodies are still such a battle ground.’

‘Are my breasts the same perkiness they were at 20 years old before they sustained human life three times over? Definitely not,’ she stated.

‘Do I care? Some days more than others. But my body isn’t something I’m ashamed of.’

But in the end, she took it all as a valuable lesson, and said she hoped that speaking out about it would encourage other women to feel comfortable in their skin.

‘I don’t really have a mission statement here, nor do I have an answer. But I do have a message,’ she concluded. 

‘Don’t believe the hype. When you felt beautiful? YOU WERE. When you felt like a woman? YOU WERE. 

‘When your body felt like it was doing what it was supposed to do? IT WAS. You don’t need anybody’s permission to make the choices you make for yourself. 

‘And when people feel something about those choice? Well, that’s none of your business.’

Eva and her chef boyfriend of three years exchanged vows at Windrift Hall in New York’s Hudson Valley.