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Actress Keira Knightley took aim at the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton’s put-together post-partum look in a feminist essay, writing that the royal presented the “face the world wants to see” just hours after giving birth. “Look beautiful. Look stylish, don’t show your battleground, Kate. Seven hours after your fight with life and death, seven hours after your body breaks open, and bloody, screaming life comes out,” Knightley wrote in an essay titled “The Weaker Sex” for the collection, Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (And Other Lies). “Don’t show. Don’t tell. Stand there with your girl and be shot by a pack of male photographers.” According to People, Knightley gave birth to her daughter just one day before Middleton gave birth to her second child, Charlotte, in 2015. The Guardian reports her essay is meant to “criticize the pressures and expectations placed on new mothers.” The actress described her own experience giving birth as a vivid and bloody “battleground.”