“Uncut Gems” actress Julia Fox is facing backlash for her controversial Halloween costume, which social media users are calling “sick and disgusting.”
The 35-year-old celeb, who is an ex-girlfriend of rapper Kanye West, stepped out for a Halloween party in New York City on Thursday and donned an outfit meant to depict the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Fox was photographed wearing the recognizable pink suit and pillbox hat that JFK’s wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore on that day. The outfit was splattered with blood meant to represent the assassination.
Reactions on social media were fiercely opposed.
“Julia Fox continues to be one of the most insufferable people imaginable,” one person replied.
“What a ghoul,” another person echoed.
“You will never be able to convince me that Hollywood is not a product of the devil,” said another.
“Tasteless, narcissistic attention seeking,” another commenter replied.
As backlash mounted, Fox posted a statement on Instagram defending the outfit, insisting her morbid outfit choice was “not a costume” but “a statement.”
“When her husband was assassinated, she refused to change out of her blood-stained clothes, saying, ‘I want them to see what they’ve done,’” the celeb wrote.
“The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern history. Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation. Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It’s about trauma, power and how femininity itself is a form of resistance. Long live Jackie O.”
Fox is known for getting attention by wearing provocative outfits. In a New York Times essay published last year, the actress said she was sick of pretending to be normal and instead wanted to openly be a “freak.”
“I remember being in fifth grade [on New York’s Upper East Side] and being exhausted from trying to pretend to be normal all the time,” Fox wrote. “It’s not easier [to try] to be normal … eventually freaks are like, ‘I’m going to be myself and live my truth because I can’t pretend anymore.’ Pretending is draining; it’s exhausting; it’s depression. Being a freak’s not an easy thing, but it can be a very beautiful thing.”
