Nicola Coughlan has responded to online speculation that her waist was "photoshopped" in Bridgerton.
The Irish actress, who plays Penelope Featherington in the period Netflix show, said that the show's Regency-era costumes sparked rumours that her waist had been edited.
Speaking to the US publication People, Coughlan said: "I think if you wear corsetry for long enough, your body really molds to it.
"Sometimes they come in a fitting for a fashion designer and they put a corset on me and I’m like, 'Oh, you can go tight,’ and they go, ‘What do you mean?’ I’m like, ‘My body now will go whew.’
The Derry Girls star added: "I saw some trolls. They were like, ‘They photoshopped your waist,’ and I was like, 'No, they did not.'"
Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton's relationship is the main focus of season three of the sumptuous drama. Penelope had initially given up on her long-held crush on Colin after hearing his disparaging words about her last season.
In the new episodes that landed on the streaming platform this week the couple are newly engaged, but Colin is unaware that Penelope is Lady Whistledown, the show's anonymous gossip writer who shares secrets of "the ton".
The haut ton, also known as the ton, were the fashionable elite of English high society in the Georgian period from 1714 to 1837.
Matters are complicated further as the rift between Penelope and her former best friend Eloise Bridgerton, played by Claudia Jessie, continues.
Bridgerton season three part two is streaming on Netflix now.
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