Ashley Judd’s ‘puffy face’ essay launches a thousand tweets

Ashley Judd has written a slamming essay against public criticism and speculation over her "puffy face". (Credit: Getty Images)Ashley Judd is so much more than just a pretty face.

She recently wrote an essay expressing her outraged about the public criticism and speculation on her "puffy face" -- was it plastic surgery or weight gain the conversation went. Her slamming essay has now gone viral, sparking energetic dialogue both on and offline about rampant and superficial critiques of those in the public eye, and on the female body in general.

Judd writes that women are much more than the sum of their body parts: