Nicola Coughlan has asked fans to stop sending her unsolicited comments about her weight.

The Bridgerton star shared her request in an Instagram post on Sunday, as she kindly told her followers to refrain from giving their two cents on her appearance.

The Irish actress, best known for her role as Penelope Featherington in the hit Netflix period drama, shared a selfie accompanied by a candid caption.

"Hello! So just a thing- if you have an opinion about my body please, please don't share it with me," she began the post.

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Coughlan went on: "Most people are being nice and not trying to be offensive but I am just one real-life human being and it's really hard to take the weight of thousands of opinions on how you look being sent directly to you every day.

"If you have an opinion about me that's ok, I understand I'm on TV and that people will have things to think and say but I beg you not to send it to me directly."

She concluded her post by writing: "Anyways here’s a pic of me in my hotel in NY about to go to SNL, it’s unrelated to this post but delighted with my hair in it."

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It's not the first time the Derry Girls star spoke up about people commenting on her body.

In 2018, Coughlan wrote an opinion article in The Guardian about critics focusing more on the way she looks rather than her acting.

What's more, Coughlan last year tweeted that journalists should stop asking women about their bodies in interviews.

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"Every time I'm asked about my body in an interview it makes me deeply uncomfortable and so sad I'm not just allowed to just talk about the job I do that I so love," she tweeted.

"It's so reductive to women when we're making great strides for diversity in the arts, but questions like that just pull us backwards."

In a follow-up tweet, she added: "Also, and I mean this in the nicest way ah possible, I'm not a body positivity activist, I'm an actor I would lose or gain weight if an important role requirement. My body is the tool I use to tell stories, not what I define myself by."

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'Bridgerton' star Nicola Coughlan asks fans to stop sharing their opinions about her body