Love Actually has been blasted online for "fat-shaming" one of the film's main characters.
Critics of the festive flick have taken to Twitter in their droves to brand the 2003 movie "offensive" regarding the fat-shaming storyline around Martine McCutcheon's character Natalie.
In the flick, Natalie (Martine McCutcheon) falls in love with the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) while working as his secretary.
Notably throughout the film, Natalie is subjected to several jibes about her weight from both her colleagues at No. 10 as well as her family in which she's referred to as "plumpy" and "the chubby girl".
After watching the movie over the festive season, a flood of unimpressed movie fans flocked to social media to hit out at the flick's glaring "fat-shaming" plot.
One posted: "Some examples of how they refer to the character played by Martine McCutcheon - 'plumpy', 'the chubby girl', 'sizeable a***', and 'huge thighs' - it's cringey and terrible.
"I have no idea how this movie is so popular. Martine's fat-shaming for one is enough to turn me off it. If she was fat, god help the rest of us," another complained.
A third wrote: "I'm watching #LoveActually. It makes me so cross that Martine McCutcheon was called 'chubby', which she absolutely wasn't.
"I love that film but the imagined fat shaming is so incredibly toxic."
Despite many modern viewers being up in arms, fans of the Richard Curtis flick defended the cult Christmas classic and insisted that it was "relevant to the time".
A fan remarked: "Love Actually was relevant to the time it was made in. Back then, if you weren't stick thin, you were fat. Times change. The movie is still brilliant though."
"People need to chill. Every movie made back then had elements about them that would be completely cancelled today," another shared.
While a third insisted that the "fat-shaming" plot was in fact a pointed swipe to the press and how they wrote about Martine at the time.
They shared: "In the early 2000s the British press labelled Martine McCutcheon fat when she's clearly no such thing.
"The whole fat shaming of her character in Love Actually is an in-joke referencing this and pointing out how ridiculous it was. Sadly the point's kind of got lost over the years."
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