Braless Joey King suffers embarrassing wardrobe malfunction

Joey King suffered a minor wardrobe malfunction while on her way to accept the Face of the Future Award at the 2024 WIF Honors Ceremony on Thursday.

As she made her way to the stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, the 25-year-old actress’ blazer popped open, leaving her scrambling to keep it closed.

The Golden Globe nominee made a shocked expression and held her jacket together, until an usher helped her safety-pin the garment to prevent her from exposing herself.

‘Wow. The perfect time for my shirt to pop open. And I’m not wearing a bra!’ the star mused.

She proceeded to launch into an emotional acceptance speech, in which she thanked her mom Jamie, grandma Elaine, and sisters Kelli and Hunter.

‘I’m so flattered. What a night. I’m overwhelmed in the best possible way. First of all, I just want to thank Max Mara and Women in Film for this incredible privilege of being named Max Mara’s Face of the Future,’ she began.

King continued: ‘I’ve been working consistently since a young age. Having success is the only thing I wanted to do with my life, but sometimes I just never felt like I was enough. It was because I was focused on wanting to be included in the things that I wasn’t included. It didn’t matter that I have so much to be grateful for. I would often ruminate on what wasn’t happening instead of what was. Maybe this is a youngest child syndrome of some kind.’

‘I don’t know, just wanting to play with my sisters and their older friends. Or maybe it was because we are in an industry we are constantly made to feel that we need to compare ourselves to others who are doing great ones. Something inside me changed at around 19 or 20 years old. I just felt so much more at peace,’ King added.

After entering her mid-twenties, she said she began feeling ‘less and less’ like she needed ‘an invite or an email to feel worthy and more focused on the beauty and fulfillment that’ she already has.

King also spoke about how self acceptance has made her a ‘better actor, a better daughter, a better sister, a better wife, and a better friend.’

She concluded her speech by saying that the women in her life ‘are the only reason that’ she’s ‘here today.’

‘I could not be named the Women in Film Max Mara Face of the Future without their leadership,’ she said of her loved ones. ‘I’m so deeply appreciative for this honor and for this fight, and for all this organization does to make women feel as powerful as they are. Because we are so powerful. Thank you so much. This is amazing.’

The next day, King proved she was unfazed by her wardrobe malfunction as she posted footage of the moment to her Instagram.

‘I’ve been in a world in which I’ve been exposed to adulthood. I had a mortgage by the time I was 14,’ King said on the  Armchair podcast in April.

‘Responsibility makes you grow up a little bit faster,’ she added.

‘And my family and everyone in my life, they adore Steven. He’s the easiest person to love. They were so stoked,’ the We Were the Lucky Ones star said.

Joey also said that the hard part about deciding to get married is that everyone has an opinion about it.

‘There’s never the right way to do it without someone commenting on it,’ she said.