MINNIE DRIVER SLAMS OLD HEADLINE ABOUT HER APPEARANCE: 'IT WAS ALWAYS A LIE'
Minnie Driver is utilizing the platform she didn’t have back in the day, calling out the lasting effects of negative headlines critiquing women’s appearances.
On Instagram, the “Good Will Hunting” star, 55, shared a print story from the ‘90s featuring side-by-side photos of the actor beside the headline, “Minnie Driver: From Drab...To Fab!”
“And we wonder why the labels that are stuck on women become internally weaponised and pinball around our heads doing their worst,” she captioned the post. “Or at least, women wonder. F--- labels.”
Under what seems to suggest “before and after” photos, the article called Driver “mop-haired Minnie” and wrote that she “looked a little mousy without her makeup...but she changed that in a hurry!”
The story, which pegged Driver at 27 years old, begins by saying the actor went from “Plain Jane to drop-dead glamorous virtually overnight!”
“Plain Janes and Hot Girls are just women,” she continued, adding that, when the story was published, social media didn’t exist as a way for subjects to add their “voice to those who described you with such authority.”
“I’m sorry I believed them at the time, I’m so glad it was always a lie. Chin up Ladies,” she concluded the caption, adding a red heart emoji and the hashtags #selflove #drab #fab and #bollocks.
Accompanying the throwback, Driver shared a video in which she said, while she couldn’t remember the outlet that reported the story, “that was being a woman in the ‘90s.”
“And what is the rejoinder to that f---ery? Is it, ‘And back to drab’?” Driver asked with a laugh. “I think that probably resonates with a lot of women.”
The British actor is currently in a one-person show, “Every Brilliant Thing,” set to debut on London’s West End Oct. 13 and calls the play “one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I’ve ever come across.”
This year, Driver starred in Netflix limited series “Run Away” and joined the cast of “Emily in Paris” Season 5. In July, she announced she was cast in Fox’s faith-based mini-series, “The Faithful,” which centers on women of the Biblical era.
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
2025-10-07T17:06:03Z