{"id":237868,"date":"2025-11-01T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237868\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:32:10","slug":"julia-fox-responds-to-backlash-over-sick-jackie-kennedy-halloween-costume-its-about-trauma-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237868\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Fox responds to backlash over \u2018sick\u2019 Jackie Kennedy Halloween costume: \u2018It\u2019s about trauma and power\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Julia Fox<\/a> has defended her controversial Jackie Kennedy costume after being met with backlash.<\/p>\n

The actor, 35, modeled a blood-stained replica of the famous pink suit that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis<\/a> was wearing when her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated<\/a> while riding next to her in a motorcade in 1963.<\/p>\n

Pictures of Fox posing in the outfit at a New York City Halloween<\/a> party Thursday quickly went viral, with social media users slamming the costume as \u201cinsensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s sick and disgusting!\u201d one criticized on X as another wrote, \u201cShe calls herself a feminist but wants to mock a woman during what was probably the most traumatic moment of her life. Interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kennedys\u2019 own grandson, Jack Schlossberg<\/a>, shared a post saying, \u201cJulia Fox glorifying political violence is disgusting, desperate and dangerous. I\u2019m sure her late grandmother would agree.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Jackie<\/p>\n

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Jackie Kennedy Onassis wore a pink suit on the day her husband was assassinated (Dallas Morning News\/Public Domain)<\/p>\n

However, Fox said in a statement that she was dressing as Onassis \u201cnot as a costume, but as a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen her husband was assassinated, she refused to change out of her blood-stained clothes, saying, \u2018I want them to see what they\u2019ve done.\u2019 The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern history. Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cHer decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest, and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It\u2019s about trauma, power, and how femininity itself is a form of resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

She concluded her statement, \u201cLong live Jackie O.\u201d The former first lady died at 64 in 1994.<\/p>\n

\"Julia<\/p>\n

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Julia Fox said she wore Jackie Kennedy\u2019s famous outfit as a \u2018statement\u2019 (Getty Images)\"Jackie<\/p>\n

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Jackie Kennedy Onassis wore a blood-stained suit to vice president Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s swearing-in ceremony (Cecil Stoughton\/JFK Presidential Library)<\/p>\n

After Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, Onassis\u2019 pink Chanel suit was covered in blood from holding her husband\u2019s head. Thirty minutes after the shooting, Kennedy was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Onassis refused to change out of her blood-stained clothes and said she regretted washing the blood off her face and hands. She was quoted at the time as saying she wanted \u201cthem to see what they have done to Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours after the assassination, she wore the bloody outfit as she stood next to vice president Lyndon B. Johnson while he was sworn in aboard Air Force One.<\/p>\n

Even with Fox\u2019s detained explanation of her tribute, fans were unconvinced that it was honoring Onassis, especially after the late first lady\u2019s rose garden was recently paved over<\/a> in the new White House renovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-237868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}