Anya Taylor-Joy reveals she stopped looking in mirrors after seeing memes making fun of her appearance online

Anya Taylor-Joy reveals she stopped looking in mirrors after seeing memes making fun of her appearance online.

Speaking to W Magazine in 2016, the Split actress recalled the beginning of her insecurity when she was tagged in a Facebook meme.

“I can definitely remember when Facebook was a thing and I was never aware that my eyes were far apart and then someone tagged me in a picture with a fish and they were like, ‘This is you ’cause your eyes are like here.’

Anya noted that she stopped looking in mirrors for “a very long time” after that. “I still don’t really spend a lot of time in front of mirrors because I don’t really have to deal with my face.”

Speaking to The Sun in 2020, she revealed how difficult it was for her growing up in Argentina and how other kids would lock her inside lockers.

“Argentina is all green and I had horses and animals everywhere. All of a sudden I was in a big city and didn’t speak the language. I didn’t really feel like I fitted in anywhere,” she said.

“I was too English to be Argentine, too Argentine to be English, too American to be anything.

“The kids just didn’t understand me in any shape or form. I used to get locked in lockers. I spent a lot of time in school crying in bathrooms.

Despite her huge success with her roles in the likes of The Queen’s Gambit and Peaky Blinders, the star still remembers when people on Facebook made fun of how ‘far apart’ her eyes (apparently) are.

“I can definitely remember when Facebook was a thing and I was never aware that my eyes were far apart and then someone tagged me in a picture with a fish and they were like, ‘This is you ’cause your eyes are like here,” she told W Magazine in 2016.