Nepo Baby Actress Called Out for ‘Weird Hip Pads’ Under Dress
The Netflix star’s controversial style drew comparisons to chicken cutlets.
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It is one of Netflix’s biggest hits, exuding Parisian glamour and French chic. Little surprise, then, that Emily in Paris’s central star, Lily Collins, would pose in the art deco grandeur of the carriages of the Orient Express. But it was not the timeless allure of travel that drew attention to her photo shoot. Instead, it was an unlikely addition to her dress: Padding around her hips.
The 36-year-old actress, daughter of Genesis drummer Phil Collins, was apparently enhanced before putting on the Magda Butrym dress for the shoot, designed to promote the new season of Emily in Paris.
After Collins shared the portraits on Instagram, Redditors quickly reposted her sleeveless red outfit to the LAinfluencersnark page. “Me when I stuff my sweatpant pockets with snacks to sneak into the movie theater,” the post’s top comment reads, while another compared her hips to “two chicken cutlets slapped on there.”
In response to a fellow Redditor’s confusion over the photo, one user wrote, “[It’s] padding, like the new Skim products. [I don’t know] why it’s being normalized.” Skims, Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand that debuted its now-infamous “pubic hair panties” earlier this year, sells several “hip enhancers,” designed to give the impression of fuller hips and a rounder butt.
The comment section beneath Collins’s post wasn’t any kinder, with one fan writing, “The colour of the [dress] is gorgeous but the weird hip pad isn’t it.”
The cast of 'Emily in Paris,' including Lucien Laviscount, Samuel Arnold, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Lucas Bravo, Lily Collins, Bruno Gouery, Ashley Park, Darren Star, and William Abadie, attend the Season 5 premiere at Le Grand Rex in Paris on December 15, 2025.
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Some sleuths, however, deduced that Collins may have incorrectly worn the Magda Butrym dress, which retails on Mytheresa for $2,475. On the Mytheresa model, the stretchy red frock is shown with a draped swath of fabric across the front and back; Collins, on the other hand, wore the attached draped piece off the dress, dangling off the side. This misstep may have led the dress to bunch up underneath, giving the impression of padded shapewear.
A member of Collins’s behind-the-scenes team caught some heat from internet commenters after she tagged stylists Andrew Mukamal, famous for working with Margot Robbie during her Barbie, and fellow stylist Brian Paulson.
Lily Collins, wearing another look styled by Andrew Mukamal, is photographed outside the Calvin Klein show during New York Fashion Week on September 12, 2025.
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“Andrew’s styling consistently p---es me off,” one fan commented. Another commenter defended the stylist, writing, “[T]hat might be too harsh, he turns out some cool looks, but a lot of them are just slightly off, and I personally would do it differently.”
Musician Phil Collins and daughter Lily, then 22, attend the after-party for the premiere of 'Mirror Mirror' in Hollywood, California, on March 17, 2012.
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Collins is married to fellow nepo baby Charlie McDowell, the son of English actor Malcolm McDowell and Step Brothers actress Mary Steenburgen. Lily and Charlie share one daughter, Tove Jane McDowell, who was born in 2025.
Between Emily in Paris actor Lucas Bravo’s aggressive fan encounters, Jeremy O. Harris’s three-week detainment in Japan for drugs, and Ashley Park’s hospitalization for septic shock, the cast of the hit Netflix show, now in its fifth season, can’t seem to catch a break.