Jennifer Lawrence: "In Hollywood, I'm obese"
Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about her weight in a new interview - insisting she will never go hungry for a role.
The 22-year-old Hunger Games star tells the new edition of U.S. Elle that she has a healthy appetite - and would never starve herself for a film role.
She also says that by Hollywood standards, she is considered 'a fat actress'.
'In Hollywood, I’m obese. I’m considered a fat actress,' Jennifer told the December issue of the publication.
'I’m Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach,' she added, referring how the once-buff Kilmer has piled on the pounds over the years.
She goes on to discuss her eating habits: 'I eat like a caveman. I’ll be the only actress who doesn’t have anorexia rumors.'
And she says not even a film role could persuade her to shed weight - so won't be following in the footsteps of starlets such as Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman and Anne Hathaway.
Jennifer explained: 'I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I keep waiting for that one role to come along that scares me enough into dieting, and it just can’t happen. I'm invincible.'
The actress says she wants to be a good role model for her fans, sharing: 'I don’t want little girls to be like, "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I’m going to skip dinner."'
'That’s something that I was really conscious of during training, when you’re trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong, not thin and underfed.'
( Her body is bangin', lbrCollapse )
why is she still being asked this question tho
It's good that she's talking about it, it's great that she's saying that she's not going to change for someone else even just to be an actress.
And it's more believable coming from her tbh because she is curvy.
So yes, she isn't as skinny as Katniss is described, but she (and Josh) did work to change their body types to fit the characters without going overboard. Which is a fine compromise tbh.
She has a round face yeah, and she has boobs and a gorgeous bum. It would have taken a LOT of crazy dieting for her to lose those assets. She has an hourglass figure, so no matter what she wasn't right going to be super skinny looking.
idk this is one of those things I can go on about. I love her and I think her complete honesty and crazyness makes her even more amazing.
I think she's annoying as fuck, but in THG when she was in the 'fire' suit I was just like DAMN.
And I was like, Dad, you weigh over 300 pounds.
OH DEAR
Women actually think about things other than weight, food, and dieting. Please start prompting your interview subjects to talk about something else. Please stop perpetuating this culture of female inferiority that reduces women to the grand sum of their looks and ability to starve themselves so as to make it easier to point and laugh at how superficial we are and thus make it harder for women to engage in substantive discussions.
Can't think of anything else you could possibly be asking them? Then maybe you shouldn't be fucking interviewing them.
tl;dr I'm sick of weight being the dominant focus of interviews with female celebrities.
Also stop with the fashion and relationship questions. So fucking insulting and sexist.
SECRETARY HILLARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?
MODERATOR: Yes.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question?
MODERATOR: Probably not. Probably not.
And this was AFTER she'd just given some advise to a young female lawyer about succeeding in a world full of sexist attitudes.
well... at least she admits this? i still remember when she called herself "dykey" for being a tomboy. nhft.
Also where is your icon from? This is the first time I really looked at it and realised that Marion Cotillard is definitely not whoever is in your icon.
The whole thing is just a bit ridiculous to me.
He's from the CocoRosie video Gallows. No idea what his name is.
Edited at 2012-11-08 07:44 pm (UTC)
I used to believe she was putting it on but I think she genuinely is just a rambling little idiot.
I love JLaw, I think she's hilarious and weird and very talented.
I can already predict ONTD will be FURIOUS that a 'bigger' actress dares to be happy about her weight or confronational.
You guise literally live to scrutinise and judge thin actresses and concern troll curvy ones but how dare they ever try to define themselves or fight back against the industry's horrible body fascism.
It's not like she can avoid the questions, people are OBSESSED with women's bodies and she is treated like a freak because she's not a size 2.
You guys can be so shitty sometimes.
We're all well aware that there are so many people in Hollywood with distorted body images that really must look at her and think she's a whale.
I also feel that she's not as confident as she'd like to be when it comes to her body, it must be annoying to put all your heart into a role and then all you get are reviews calling you 'chunky' or w/e.
I like her but she's got to start to learn to think before she speaks and honestly I believe she has the maturity to do that, it's just...taking a while.