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On Wednesday, Rachel\u2019s daughter Matilda shared a post hitting back at the trolls, prompting countless Hollywood stars to speak out in her defence.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is sincerely beautiful. For real. No qualifiers. Just a beauty. I\u2019m sure inside and out,\u201d Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cStill an exquisite beauty\u2026and a great movie star,\u201d wrote Alec Baldwin, who worked with Rachel on the 2006 film, Running With Scissors.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour mother is stunning!!! Always has been,\u201d Avatar actress Zoe Saldana commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is absolutely stunning. Still,\u201d added 21 Jump Street star Holly Robinson Peete.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s so gorgeous. Luminous. Like a prism,\u201d Charmed actress Alyssa Milano said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeautiful\u2026in every way,\u201d echoed Viola Davis.<\/p>\n
\u201cGorgeous still,\u201d penned Wicked actress Kristin Chenoweth.<\/p>\n
There were also plenty of Australian stars sharing their messages of support in the post\u2019s 20,000 comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmen to REAL WOMEN. That\u2019s me. What you see is what you get. I stand with Rachel. Nothing altered. Just me. Spreading the love,\u201d McLeod\u2019s Daughters star Bridie Carter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGlowing inside and out\u2026always was, always will be\u2026a beauty,\u201d added actor and presenter Cameron Daddo.<\/p>\n
In a separate post, Matilda, 39, revealed her mum\u2019s brilliant response to the negative comments, confirming she is \u201ccompletely unscathed\u201d by the criticism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for the very kind comments and messages about my last reel. I\u2019m unable to reply to all of them as there are thousands and thousands,\u201d she wrote on her Instagram story.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I want you to know, my mum is completely unscathed by the comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has incredible self worth and her response when reading through them was to laugh and say \u2018how funny, I thought I looked great!\u2019 As it should have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
As well as Matilda, Rachel and Bryan have two more children: Rosie, 42, and Joe, 34.<\/p>\n
They have been married since 1983 after falling in love on the set of The Thorn Birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood stars have rushed to defend iconic Aussie actress Rachel Ward after vile trolls made cruel comments about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,1973,1202,212744],"class_list":["post-399751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-instagram","tag-rachel-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}