Ashley Judd shares body-positive message in swimsuit

Ashley Judd doesn’t care.

The actress, 57, shared a body-positive message on Instagram Tuesday while swimming in the Baltic Sea.

“Hi, I’m Ashley and I am a member of the ‘We don’t care club,’” she declared at the start of the video.

“And when I’m in my swim suit [sic], sometimes I get a little chafing, like right down there,” she said, referring to her upper thighs. She explained that she uses cornstarch as a remedy for it and if people can see the residue on her thighs, she doesn’t care.

Judd went on to address her “inner child” and said it belongs to the “MSU club” — aka the “Make stuff up club.”

“And as a post menopausal woman, I don’t care if you don’t like the ‘MSU club’ for inner children,” the “Double Jeopardy” star screamed as she attempted to backflip into the water.

“I’m also picking my crotch, and I don’t care,” she continued while adjusting her one-piece bathing suit. “I probably have cellulite and I don’t care. And I got hungry bum and I don’t care.”

The actress went on to do several water tricks because “when we were little it was really fun and we don’t care what people think of us.”

In the caption of the Instagram Reel, Judd further talked about embracing her aging body.

“What will I, with my freedom & mirth, when I let go of caring about stupid, controlling norms about my female body, be free to enJOY? . . . I bask in the unselfconscious being-ness of my True Self. My Inner Child is free to emerge. She feels confidence & glee. 🧑‍🧒‍🧒”

Fans flooded the comments section applauding her video and relating to her message.

“I love this. It made my inner (and whole being) laugh happily several times. ✨” one fan wrote. “Love your I don’t care club!” another added.

Judd has been a longtime advocate for women. She was one of the first prominent actresses to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and played a pivotal role in the #MeToo movement.

“The healing I’ve done has very powerfully shaped my work. It’s made me unafraid, it’s made me incredibly driven,” Judd told the AP in 2018.

The daughter of singing legend Naomi Judd revealed that her mom encouraged her to expose the now-disgraced Hollywood mogul for his abuse.

“I just want to remember when I was speaking to my mother about this she said, ‘Go get him, honey’ in her sweet way, in dulcet tones… not a punitive bone in her body,” Ashley said of her late mom in October 2022.

Ashley revealed that she was the one who found her mother’s body after Naomi fatally shot herself in April 2022.

“I went upstairs to let her know that [her] friend was there, and I discovered her. I have both grief and trauma from discovery,” she told Diane Sawyer the next month.

Ashley and her half-sister, Wynonna Judd, 61, were left out of their mother’s will, but denied that they ever argued over the matter despite speculation. Instead, the Grammy winner insisted that the tragedy brought them closer together.

“Both my parents are gone, and I’m relying on Ashley,” Wynonna told People in October 2022.

“She’s relying on me in a different way that’s about compassion. It’s not about being successful and smart and capable. It’s about, ‘I love you.’ ‘I love you, too.’ We’re vulnerable with each other, and we’re tender.”

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