'My open letter to Aimee Lou Wood's teeth (yes, really).'

Dear Aimee Lou Wood's chompers,

Well, haven't you caused quite the kerfuffle lately?

I can't escape you. Every news site I click on, every social media app I doomscroll on, there you are.

Because it turns out your owner — who is now starring as my favourite character in The White Lotus… but you know that, you were there — has made people lose their collective minds because she chose to keep you in your natural form.

Watch: The teaser trailer for The White Lotus Season 3. Post continues after video.

No offence, but you're a bit of a rarity these days.

In a sea of veneers and crowns and Invisalign, you're an outlier.

Entire think pieces have been written about you. You've even been called "inspiring". Yep, I told you we've all lost our minds. I mean, I'm writing a letter addressed to teeth for crying out loud.

As someone who has spent years feeling self-conscious about their smile and has been called 'horse face' by another grown woman… I feel overly qualified to say that you — Aimee Lou Wood's teeth — matter. You matter more than I ever thought little toothy pegs possibly could.

Because as ridiculous as it sounds, you've reflected a sad truth back at me that hadn't quite dawned on me until now: I could've just left my teeth alone.

Aimee Lou Wood attending the world premiere of The White Lotus Season 3. Image: Getty.

While I managed to escape braces, I was so self-conscious about my teeth and their imperfections that I begged my parents to let me get veneers as a teenager. A privilege I very much realise is not afforded to everyone, and I used that privilege to change something about myself that wasn't broken. 

I had to dig deep through the archives to even find a photo of what they looked like pre-veneers and looking back on them now, they're… totally fine. Discoloured and crooked, sure, but fine. They suited my face. It was my eyebrows that really needed my attention most…

Case in point: my very normal teeth and my non-existent eyebrows as a teenager, and now. Image: Supplied. 

Wood knows we're all talking about you too.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she (you) spoke about the massive reaction to her face.

"All I ever do is take the piss out of myself. Even the way [The White Lotus] fans are talking about me and my teeth — that I don't have veneers or Botox — it feels a bit rebellious," she said. 

How does it feel to be famous? And while we're on that, can you tell me who dies? No, of course not. You probably signed some sort of tiny teeth NDA.

"No Americans have my teeth. They just don't." 

In a Stylist interview, she (you) also spoke about how it was her biggest insecurity growing up, but she has now become an unlikely role model.

"I'm getting hundreds of messages from people going, 'Oh my god, you've got teeth like mine. Now I go to school and people think I'm cool because I look like Aimee.'," she told the publication.

I'm definitely not alone in thinking that seeing you on screen is both delightful and jarring in equal measure. It's not what we're used to — a normal, beautiful face in its natural form — but God I'm glad to see you every Monday.

Anyway, that's enough inflating your ego now.

Just tell me who dies… please.

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