Aimee Lou Wood‘s sister and several celebrity pals rallied around The White Lotus star after a Saturday Night Live sketch mocked the actress’ gap teeth.
“She is out here personifying the word POWERHOUSE,” Aimee’s sister Emily Wood wrote in a Sunday, April 13, Instagram Story with a photo of the siblings. “The admiration I have for this woman is nuts. Beyond comprehension. JUST like my feelings of deep animalistic protectiveness over her.”
“The greatest big sister,” the makeup artist, 28, continued. “My best human on the planet. Her authenticity and originality are incomparable. My god we are really madly blessed to experience life on earth at the same time as her.”
Cara Delevingne also showed her support for Aimee, 31. The model, 32, posted the Sex Education star’s original reaction to SNL‘s “The White POTUS” sketch, where Aimee wrote, “I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny.”
The Suicide Squad star wrote over it, “@aimeelouwood YOU ARE STUNNING PERIOD.”
Model Georgia May Jagger — whom Aimee credited with helping make natural, uneven teeth not just acceptable but attractive — reposted Cara’s Story, adding, “Agreed! @aimeelouwood is gorgeous.”
Actress Jameela Jamil reposted a Story about Aimee’s reaction to the sketch, writing, “I hate this so much.”
“It’s the least interesting or memorable thing about this brilliant actor,” The Good Place alum, 39, continued about Aimee’s teeth, calling the British actress, “Our next Olivia Coleman. Hilarious, deep, vulnerable, and relentlessly lovable.”
“We make fun of the assimilation of women,” Jameela added, “and then mercilessly obsess over anyone with any slightly alternative features from whatever bulls–t AI standard we have allowed, as women, to take hold of this world.”
Aimee’s character of Chelsea was shown in a parody of the Max hit called The White POTUS, a SNL pretaped skit that appeared in place of the cold open on the April 12 episode.
Cast member Sarah Sherman played Chelsea, wearing oversized fake teeth and having zoned out reactions to Jon Hamm playing a version of her White Lotus boyfriend, Rick. Instead, he played Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. having a stressed-out reaction about vaccines and removing fluoride from drinking water.
“Last thing I’ll say on this matter. I’m not thin-skinned. I love being taken the piss out of when it’s clever and in good spirits,” Aimee added in a follow-up Story post on April 13.
“But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth, not bad teeth. I don’t mind caricature — I understand that’s what SNL is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on.”
Aimee added that she didn’t feel that it was Sarah’s fault for her portrayal of Chelsea. Instead, she took issue with the writing. Aimee reposted a fan reaction from X reading, “It was a sharp and funny skit until it suddenly took a screeching turn into 1970s misogyny,” to which Aimee added, “This sums up my view.”
The On the Edge star has been vocal over the years about how she was initially insecure about not having perfect teeth growing up. Aimee told Stylist in 2020 how Mick Jagger‘s gapped-tooth daughter rocketing to fame as a model made life easier for her as a teen.
“Georgia May Jagger became the face of Rimmel London when I was at school and all of a sudden it went from me being goofy to, ‘Oh, you’re a bit of a model, aren’t you?’ So, I want to thank Georgia May Jagger for representing the buck teeth,” Aimee told the outlet.
