Jessica Simpson Pens Public Letter to Natalie Portman Over Bikini Pics

Predictably, Portman responded.

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And because these women are mature adults and not petty in the slightest, both the call out and the response was smart, well-worded and respectful.

Portman apologized to Simpson in an Instagram comment on the post.

Two queens having a conversation!

“I only meant to say I was confused – as a girl coming of age in the public eye around the same time – by the media’s mixed messages about how girls and women were supposed to behave,” Portman wrote in her apology.