Whereas Aimee Lou Wooden is grateful for empowering feedback about her look, she is urging followers of The White Lotus to not attempt copying her tooth.
Wooden, 31, was requested on The Jonathan Ross Show concerning the help she obtained surrounding her distinctive smile in a clip the present shared by way of TikTok on Sunday, March 23. “It feels so beautiful,” she replied. “An actual full-circle second after being bullied for my tooth eternally. Now individuals are clapping in an viewers.”
Whereas the actress “can’t imagine the impression” her look is having on followers, she is hoping others aren’t requesting tooth like hers when going to the dentist. Wooden particularly discouraged folks in order that they “don’t begin submitting their tooth in order that they have gaps” in her tooth.
Wooden has been a scene-stealing presence on season 3 of The White Lotus. Whereas viewers are praising Wooden’s look now, she beforehand spoke out concerning the rocky highway to growing self esteem.
“I’d at all times be tremendous assured after I went to theater auditions, but when it was a TV factor I’d be so shocked after I obtained a recall,” she instructed Stylist in 2020. “I generally thought, ‘Oh, a Channel 4 factor, I may need an opportunity on there.’ Then Intercourse Training got here alongside and I used to be like, ‘Nicely, what have I seen on Netflix? Everybody has excellent Hollywood tooth.’”
Wooden was at all times “shocked” when there was curiosity in her taking part in American roles, including, “It’s a psychological barrier I’ve needed to overcome. It’s fully in my head. It’s a delusion I’ve instructed myself.”
On the time, Wooden recalled receiving “hundreds of messages” from followers that she was not “conventional-looking sufficient” for sure roles.
“Folks going, ‘Oh, my God, you’ve obtained tooth like mine. Now I am going to high school and other people assume I’m cool as a result of I appear to be Aimee.’ As a substitute of it being Bugs Bunny or no matter,” she added earlier than crediting Georgia Could Jagger for serving to her construct extra confidence. “Impulsively [after she became the face of Rimmel London in 2009] it went from me being goofy to, ‘Oh, you’re a little bit of a mannequin, aren’t you?’ So I need to thank Georgia Could Jagger for representing the buck tooth.”
Earlier this month, Wooden reflected on her journey within the highlight, sharing in an Instagram video, “[My mouth] was the factor that everybody identified and it was the factor that made me completely different. And I’ve by no means seen an actress on TV with tooth like mine. When Georgia Jagger did the ‘Get the London Look’ and he or she had the hole tooth, that was an enormous second. I then thought, ‘I’m going to place pink lipstick on and I’m going to attract consideration to it.’”
