Rising above criticism: Susan Sarandon's daughter defends her wedding dress

Wedding styles in the showbiz world always provoke strong emotions. This applies to the guests' outfits and what the bride and groom wear on their big day.

At the turn of June and July, the internet buzzed with comments under photos from Susan Sarandon’s daughter's wedding. Eva Amurri, in a plunging dress, vowed her love, fidelity, and honesty.

To be honest, I think the upper part of the dress is terribly fitted; What a tacky dress with no class; How can you flaunt your breasts like this at your own wedding? Disgusting - visibly displeased internet users wrote under the bride's posts.

Although initially, the 39-year-old seemed unfazed by the jibes, a few weeks after the wedding, she confessed via her blog that the critical words hurt her deeply.

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 laments, adding that the unexpected comments about her appearance brought her to tears.

I felt hot tears spring to my eyes in a way that brought me right back to Middle School - she described how she felt reading the unflattering comments and compared internet users' reactions to how children behave towards each other in school.

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, she confessed, clearly disappointed.

The actress's daughter admitted that she had encountered horrible words directed at her online in the past, so she thought she had a thick skin. However, she was quickly surprised at how the hate affected her.

It was the yucky feeling of knowing that there are people out there (and lots of them!) whose immediate reaction upon witnessing my little family’s joy was to try to hurt us.

The woman insists that she only wanted to "show my figure and really celebrate myself as a woman". She recalls that she has always had naturally huge breasts, and their size has changed over the years with each child she breastfed.

Are my breasts the same perkiness they were at 20 years old before they sustained human life three times over? Definitely not - she points out and assures that she does not care about this fact.

Eva cannot understand the behaviour of her critics.

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. (...) 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, or everything about what they were wearing, or doing, or whatever.

At the end of her rant, Amurri theorises that the hatred she experienced boils down to "fear, self-loathing, insecurity, and rage".

I stopped feeling sorry for myself and started feeling sorry for those people - she writes, adding that it’s "chilling to think" that her daughter will grow up at a time when "women’s bodies are STILL such a battle ground."

Do you understand her disappointment?