Emma Watson (credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES (KBCWtv) – 26-year-old Emma Watson clapped back at critics who said her Vanity Fair photo shoot “betrayed her feminist ideals.”
In a statement, to the Associated Press, Watson said the issue represented “a fundamental and complete misunderstanding of what feminism is.”
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An image from Watson’s Vanity Fair shoot has her posing in a white crochet top while showing cleavage.
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