Eva Amurri Defends Olivia Culpo's Wedding Dress and Reveals Criticism of Her Own Gown Brought Her to Tears

• Eva Amurri took to her blog, Happily Eva After, to share how the vitriol surrounding her wedding dress left her feeling "picked apart" following her June 29 nuptials to chef Ian Hock.
• Amurri has previously clapped back on social media against those who were "scandalized" by her breasts in her Kim Kassas bridal gown.
• In her post, Amurri defended Olivia Culpo's gown after the former Miss Universe also received negative comments on her look. The two wed on the same day.

Eva Amurri is responding to the criticism she received over her wedding dress  — and how the backlash Olivia Culpo faced for her bridal gown proves that “it’s impossible to be a woman.” 

In a poignant post shared to her blog, Happily Eva After, Amurri, 39, got real about how the influx of hateful comments for showing cleavage on her June 29 wedding day left her feeling “picked apart.” 

“I’ve always been naturally very large-chested, and my breast size fluctuates with my weight (as real breasts often do),” Amurri wrote.

“I am a mom of three and breastfed all three kids, so the size fluctuation only continued over the past 10 years. Are my breasts the same perkiness they were at 20 years old before they sustained human life three times over? Definitely not. Do I care? Some days more than others. But my body isn’t something I’m ashamed of.” 

Amurri went on to explain that she specifically went into every dress fitting appointment with a vision. She wanted to wear something “sexy and elegant” to accentuate her figure and to “celebrate” her body. 

Amurri tied the knot with chef Ian Hock in a Kim Kassas gown featuring corseted, built-in bustier style bodice. She paired the design with a dramatic veil. 

“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,” she added. 

She wasn’t the only famous bride that June weekend who was scrutinized over her wardrobe.

Culpo, 32, had wed San Francisco 49ers running back, Christian McCaffrey, in Rhode Island on the same day. The details of her nuptials, including her decision to wear a modest Dolce & Gabbana gown were published by Vogue on July 1. 

Amurri had been keeping up with Culpo’s wedding journey and didn’t realize that they were getting married on the same day. However, she soon found out that the former Miss USA was also being ridiculed for her dress, just like she was.

Like Amurri, the Culpo Sisters star wanted to walk down the aisle in a very specific look, which was, in her case, a gown that didn’t “exude sex in any way, shape or form.”

“She had done what she had set out to do, and her day was absolutely perfect for her and for her new husband," wrote Amurri.

"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, 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."

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE (her first since the wedding), Culpo said that she too was “definitely very surprised” by the discourse around her dress.

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Amurri concluded her post by marveling over the fact that women just can’t be women without having to dodge unachievable beauty standards.

“I think about my daughter’s generation and shudder at the thought that they are growing up at a time when women’s bodies are STILL such a battle ground,” she wrote, referring to her 10-year-old Marlowe. 

She continued: “And not only their bodies, but their minds! Their wardrobes! Their sensibilities! How do we expect to gain power and equality when we won’t even let each other live our best lives?! Why is one woman’s vision so threatening to somebody they’ve never met?” 

“It all feels vastly overwhelming to navigate. The Barbie movie put all of this much more eloquently than I do here, but the sentiment is the same: it is impossible to be a woman."

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