Emma’s plea to praise success

EMMA Watson has claimed that women can be their own worst enemies – by criticising female success stories instead of celebrating them.

The Harry Potter star said she felt ‘uncomfortable and awkward’ admitting there is a problem, but revealed that some of her harshest critics have been other women.

Speaking on International Women’s Day, the actress, 24, said: ‘We really need to support each other, we really do.’

She also revealed that she knew a threat from hackers to publish naked pictures of her was a hoax because the images ‘didn’t exist’ and that it highlighted how gender inequality is still an issue.

She said: ‘It was a wake-up call to people around me in particular who didn’t think we had a problem with gender equality in Great Britain.

‘People thought I’d be disheartened by this but if anything it made me so much more determined.’

Miss Watson was targeted by hackers within 12 hours of a speech she made in New York last September as part of her role as UN Women Goodwill ambassador.