Jennifer Lawrence: ‘I want to look like a woman and not a prepubescent 13-year-old boy’
May 17, 2011 in Beauty & Body Image, Celebrity Quotes by Versus
Jennifer Lawrence, who prefers looking chubby on camera instead of really skinny in real life and who compared skinny actresses to ‘birds’, brings the quote of the day:
On getting ready for the Oscars: “Fifteen minutes before, the guy doing my hair goes, ‘If you can get a salad, get a salad…I said, ‘I’m getting a Philly cheesesteak.’ I’m sure there’s proof on a hotel bill somewhere.”
On preparing for her role in X-Men First Class: “I knew that if I was going to be naked in front of the world, I wanted to look like a woman and not a prepubescent 13-year-old boy…I’m so sick of people thinking that’s what we’re supposed to look like.”
… says Jennifer in Elle.
Wow she’s beautiful! However, I hate how all stars are lately saying “I want a womanly shape” or “I don’t want to look like a skinny little boy” blah blah. Well actually if they haven’t noticed they already DO look quite thin. Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t look too thin in person but I feel in these photos she’s been photo shopped to look thinner than she really is… unless she lost weight recently :p
exactly…she really DOES look like a “prepubescent little boy” in her own words. which if you ask me is not how she or anyone else actually looks…but what i mean is shes just as skinny as anyone else.
you wouldn’t be saying that if you saw her one the cover of “Flare” if you watch the X-Men movie (she has to be nude) she’s not a stick like most movie stars you can tell on screen
I really really wish she had been cast as Sam in Perks of Being a Wallflower instead of Emma Watson. Not that I don’t love Emma, but she doesn’t look the part. Jennifer Lawrence looks like what I always envisioned in the book. She has the body and the face and the hair for it, plus she doesn’t have to fake an American accent.
OKAY cool Jennifer, we get it. The last three posts about her have been her talking about how she doesn’t want to be super skinny. What about those women that are naturally skinny? Or women that lack curves? I wonder what would happen if there was a celebrity that ever said, “I don’t want to be fat as hell, or obese, or chubby. I just want to be healthy.” they are all about body IMAGE and not about the inside. She is annoying.
exactly. i agree that the image of the overly skinny model has been taken too far. many of them looking sad and starved, just so they can wear a dress and walk on a ramp.
but, this is no way to combat that image or example. she is doing the same exact thing, only with a fuller body shape. i have many friends who are naturally very thin and its not realistic for them to have her frame. they don’t look like prepubescent boys, they look like women with a different body type.
she is so irritating, i mean fine i get you are sort of a pinup, i dont care how much you weight…don’t insult people and think you are supporting a healthy body image.
I find it very annoying when a celeb’s ra ra ra speech knocks someone else. There are so many women who can’t help but be flat and thin. Don’t these celebs think of these people when they say these stupid things? They are so shallow.
She just keeps going and going… Now it’s the old “prepubescent 13-year old boy” comment. I bet next time she’ll say something about feeding people beef burgers…
I know. I understand her point but she is just being really rude and she keeps making these unnecessary comments, geez.
Seriously, why is it always a cheeseburger that people desire to shove down skinny women’s throats? And why the violent shoving? Why not wish to politely feed them filet mignon with a drizzling of creme fraiche, perhaps with a rich asparagus risotto?
Haha, you’re so right!
“Seriously, why is it always a cheeseburger that people desire to shove down skinny women’s throats? And why the violent shoving? Why not wish to politely feed them filet mignon with a drizzling of creme fraiche, perhaps with a rich asparagus risotto?”
Haha, one of the funniest comments I’ve seen in a while.
I want her to want to ACT like a woman and not be a prepubescent 13 year old brat
she is SO ANNOYING. I agree with all she says but she is a broken record.
I remember being a 13 y/o boy and their being other 13 y/o boys at school and none of us looked like skeletons, or adult female film stars.
Ha ha James- your comment made my day!
she’s not exactly the epitome of a perfect feminine “womanly” body so i think she should stop insulting people without that body type. to say that she’s sick of being told that a certain way is the way she is “supposed” to look kind of sounds like she’s putting down that body type. as a person who doesnt have huge boobs and a “typically” feminine figure, i am really just sick of you, jennifer
The constant references to the bodies of teenage boys is what really makes me sick. I mean seriously half the country should be locked up if they have adolescent boys on their minds when they look at women.
Exactly. And if skinny women look like boys then surely fat men with man boobs must look like women? Ridiculous comments from Jennifer.
Why is it so trendy to talk about how much you don’t like skinny Hollywood girls, while being very thin yourself?!?
YES many actresses are very thin due to not eating enough or whatever but some women are just really thin and that’s just their body type. Think how you’d feel if you wanted Yo grow bigger boobs or be curvy but your body just wasn’t built that way.
This comment feels mean spirited to me.
Also I wonder how
People would react if she’d said “I want to look like a woman not a whale”
She looks a mess in that first picture. & I’m sick of her making remarks like that. She could get her point across without saying that women that are thinner than her look like ”birds” and “prepubescent boys” She’s hardly a size or two larger then the super skinny girls anyways.
It’s weird that she says she wanted to look like a woman in Xmen, yet I’m pretty sure I read a few months back that she said she “starved” to play Mystique.
Talking of Mystique, I like the old one better. They seem about the same size but Rebecca Romijn is more curvy.
Jennifer:
http://www.ugo.com/therush/gallery/x-men-first-class-pictures/838/7/
Rebecca: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808490830/photo/615131
Rebecca had better facial features for the part too. Why are they casting Jennifer instead of Rebecca again?
I guess this movie is supposed to be about the characters when they were younger, so Jennifer is supposed to be a young Rebecca. Originally it was Amber Heard that was cast as the young Mystique, and I still think she would have been great.
the new x-men is supposed to be like a prequel, so jennifer is playing a younger version of mystique
Exactly!
She will play a YOUNG Mystique, don’t know the age, but Xabier and Magneto are supposed to have about 20 years in that film. So perhaps Mystique would be a teenager in that film, do not really know, I don’t follow these comics, anyone know how old is supposed to have Mystique?
I think her age isn’t known, but she’s probably around Magneto’s age or even older.
rebecca romijin had the MOST AMAZING FIGURE in x-men! so good it deserved caps
AMEN!!
If she was doing her hair while she was eating that’s probably why he wanted her to get a salad. It’s probably a lot easier to eat a salad while someone does your hair than a philly cheesesteak sandwhich. I also think it’s a bit rude to eat foods that smell a lot when you are the only one eating. Like on a train or in a hotel room with someone doing your hair, ha ha.
I think she’s beautiful and natural looking – but she’s not much bigger than the majority of Hollywood stars is she? She’s starting to sound a bit conceited and kind of ignorant with these anti-skinny comments. I don’t like the extremely thin fad either – when it’s not natural, that is – but I think she is being too sweeping in her comments. I get that she wants to keep her (slightly) fuller figure and that she likes to comes across as tough – but I just find the way she words things immature.
Yes, some women in Hollywood do look underdeveloped because they have starved themselves (and some are just naturally ‘boyish’) – but most of them don’t. She’s not the only one who has a more natural figure and she is certainly not the most ‘womanly’ actress out there. She needs to stop making these comments – I agreed with her the first time, but it’s getting old and unoriginal now.
“I don’t like the extremely thin fad either – when it’s not natural, that is”
even if it is natural, why should it be all we see?
Yep true Erica and also true Elisabeth. Also to add to that, I agree I don’t think these comments are good or helpful and they are skinny-bashing, which I don’t agree with. However, I wish people would stop using it as an excuse to go on about how we are too accepting of curvier figures now etc. That’s not true. Yes, she would get verbally bashed if she said something like ‘I’d rather look like a woman than an obese pig’ or something. But overweight people (and not even people who are classed as overweight) get abused a lot in real life anyway! The amount of times my friends have pointed out someone being big and laughed, or even a normal girl with a bit of extra wight (not even fat) and said something like ‘oh gosh she shouldnt wear that with a body like hers’. Never once have I heard people say about a skinny woman ‘Oh she shouldnt wear that because she doesn’t fill it out etc.’
Like I said, I dont agree with skinny bashing. However people take it too far like the media is encouraging people to be overweight! MOST women (as much as people hate to think it) are not naturally as thin as a VS model. Even VS models half the time are not naturally that thin. THIN THIN THIN is STILL getting shoved down everyones throats, however it’s being classed as curvy because they are airbrushing on bums and tits, or uding extra pushup padding, or because they have curvy bone structure (Candice Swanepoel etc, or even just a slight curve which most women have to some extent) they are seen as curvy. It doesn’t matter that you can see their skin draped over every bone in their body.
Yes skinny bashing is bad. But I wish people wouldnt use it as an excuse to make it out like people are against skinny bodies. Yes, there may be more TALK of ‘curvy is in’…but just look at the magazines and the models these days. They are more unnattainably skinny than ever…yet they are being classed as curvy due to kafe boobs or airbrushing. Bashing any body shape is bad. But lets get real. Thin is still in and it will be that way for a long time…
I completely agree solaxia. I am tired of thin being the ideal and you are right that it is still being shoved down our throats, despite the appearance of a few fuller figured popular celebs (like Christina H and Kim K for example). But to read and hear all the horrid stuff that is said about them by a lot of people really makes you realise that being bigger is really only acceptable in a few cases – many people still view them as fat if they are more than a size 6. I find it upsetting that the ideal of beauty today is just so unattainable for the majority of women – unless they starve themselves. As I said, naturally thin women should not be made to feel like they are unfeminine and bird-like and I think the ‘pre-pubescent boy/girl’ comments are unfair – but the fact of the matter is, there is very little criticism of thin women. You may hear it now and then from celebs like Jennifer or the Daily Fail – but you are far, far, far more likely to hear criticism because someone doesn’t have a totally flat stomach, or they have ‘huge’ thighs, etc.
I try to be even handed with my comments, but it really irks me when people make out like skinny bashing is prevalent and everyone loves fat women – it’s just so untrue!
It’s only that in Jennifer’s case, I feel she is pushing it – it’s really not necessary to put other women down to highlight your own (slightly curvier) figure. If it was Christina H I might sort of understand it more – though I’d still find it immature.
Agreed!
Exactly! Well said! Also, I forgot to say before that the women that seem to be skinny bashing…are actually skinny themselves anyway! Seems strange, and scary in a way.
agreed solaxia and erica. i am bewildered by the skinny bashing comments on this website. but while as i think i’ve already posted, I don’t give jennifer any credit for her statement as it seemed to reek of pure ‘i’m just a regular girl’ PR BS, but as i was reading solaxias comment I did recall a long time ago my cousin wearing a very low cut top that kept gaping and showing her completely non existent chest and the thought that crossed my mind at that time was I confess ‘she looks like a little boy’. I’d never before heard that comment used and I certainly would never have said it to her but that is what I thought. Interestingly she later put on a stone or so while at university and despite losing most of it again- she is about 5’6 and 105lbs- she gained d cup boobs and has never lost them. I don’t think it is natural for all women to have big breasts and butts and great WHR, we all come in different shapes and sizes but equally i don’t think it is natural to be emaciated. everyone I know who is underweight doesn’t eat very much, certainly not 2000 calories or even 1500. I don’t think the bird like actresses jennifer is talking about are sitting stuffing their faces, which is probably what she is trying to say but just doing a very bad and quite annoying job of it.
She really needs to cut the crap. I used to think that maybe she had a good attitude but she just wasn’t very tactful, but now her comments just reek of insecurity. Why else would she feel the need to constantly put down other women? In my opinion, it’s only insecure women who feel the need to do that. I’m extremely tired of the whole “cheesesteak instead of salad thing” as much as I’m tired of the whole “13-year-old boy” thing. First off, what if people actually like salads and hate steaks? And second, I have yet to see any woman who exactly resembles a 13-year-old boy.
perhaps the hairguy advised her to eat a salad because she had bad skin or didnt look fresh.
(skinny)healthy is far more attractive than just normal weight and perhaps a less than nutritious diet
*rolls eyes*
can this woman shut up already
i like her but considering she’s got a very slim figure she should probably just shush because she sounds silly. like she’s trying to hard to be relate-able.
im bored with her *yawn* ON TO THE NEXT!!!
Kim Kardashian no. 2, much?
Her rants are getting annoying. You don’t need to prove to us you chose a cheesesteaks instead of a salad.
She sounds rather conceited and ignorant to me. Women come in all different shapes and sizes. A person born with a skinny frame cannot force herself to sprout curves.
I find this entire “looking like a woman” thing ridiculous.
I agree. A woman looks like a woman full stop. It’s funny because there is a very fine line…people say if you are too thin you look like a prepubescent boy. Which isn’t true. People say that women who are too big look like men. Which also isn’t true. I feel like although society has gotten far better in regards to women being able to get educated, and have careers etc. They are still marginalized because none of that matters unless they look good. Not only that….looking good is like walking a very fine line. You have to adhere to societies view of attractiveness as a whole. whatever that is.
I don’t find the ‘looking like a woman’ thing ridiculous myself – it makes sense to me. Well looking ‘womanly’ makes sense to me – which is not exactly the same thing, but similar. There really is a preconceived set of aesthetics for what a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’ should look like – it’s sort of hard-wired. Most people will instinctually say that a woman with broad shoulders, very little waist definition and narrow hips looks more ‘manly’. And they would say a woman with big breasts, narrower shoulders, wide hips and a small waist is very ‘womanly’. Of course women come in all shapes in between and they are all women – but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that one woman looks more ‘womanly’ than another. it’s also not a question of attractiveness – many people find the more boyish looking women more attractive (to me, most top models are boyish looking without the bra padding!)
It’s not as if you are saying that woman’s gender is in question – it’s simply an aesthetic observation. Men can be called ‘effeminate’ too if they have narrower shoulders, fine features and are skinny – and ‘moobies’ are on the increase, which makes men look a bit less ‘manly’! Again, it’s not questioning their gender or even attractiveness though (effeminate men are rather popular, last time I checked!). It’s just what people do – we define one another, like the body shape categories. But not everyone fits into pear or cornet or hourglass. I personally don’t think it’s harmful to call someone ‘womanly’ and someone ‘boyish’ – many girls I have met are proud of being boyish, it’s not necessarily a negative thing. I get called ‘matronly’ – and I don’t really like that. I guess it depends how you take it!
The point is everyone gets labelled. It doesn’t mean we all have to agree with it though, I think it’s good if you refuse to use the terms if you disagree with them. I just don’t see it as mean-spirited or unreasonable to call someone ‘womanly’ or ‘boyish’. The 13 year old boy thing or ‘fat pig’ is of course unreasonable though!
I hate it when celebrities make comments like this.. repeatedly.. I mean.. we get it already.
Now I’m not going to be an idealist and expect her go the extra mile and actually use the opportunity she has to talk about something that actually matters but in this case, really, don’t you have an opinion on ANYTHING else?
My God how defensive is this woman.
Calm the hell down Jennifer Lawrence. Some of the women you are referring to will never have the curves that you are referring to. Breasts and ass don’t come naturally to everyone, regardless of what size they are.
And I have yet to see a thin or curveless woman who has actually looked like a 13 year old boy and has been mistaken for one. It’s actually slightly concerning to me what people think 13 year old boys look like. It’s actually funny because people use that phrase as a diss at women whose bodies they are threatened by; but in actuality, it’s more of a diss on the boys than the women, since the women are still the same amount of gorgeous as always.
My advice to Jennifer Lawrence is 1) calm down. 2) Take a good look in the mirror, you’re not that curvy yourself. 3) Stop insulting others; it doesn’t make you any more beautiful, on the inside or on the outside.
“And I have yet to see a thin or curveless woman who has actually looked like a 13 year old boy and has been mistaken for one.”
I got called ‘young man’ once by an older lady at my gym. True story. It wasn’t until I shrieked MAN!!!? in my obviously girly voice that she apologized. I still get a kick out of that.
I am sorry to say that I have mistake women for young men on occasion – it happens! If a woman is not dressed in a typical feminine way (like in baggy gym gear) and does not have a typical female outline, then it’s not that extreme to mistake them for a man. It’s awful, but it’s not intentional or anything!
Haha, I had a good laugh! My hair was short at the time, so I could understand how a quick glance + my long jacket made me look like a dude.
I definitely mistook a young lady for a guy recently… from behind anyway. In my defense, she was wearing baggy walking shorts, a button-up shirt, and had a short haircut. She was also very very thin. I think it’s fair to say that, in the absence of curves and other elements we use to distinguish men from women (i.e. “feminine” hair and clothing”), some women can resemble young men.
If she had worn the same outfit but switched the button-up for a tank top, I bet she would have looked adorable and feminine. But who knows? Maybe she didn’t care.
She looks pretty thin in the second photo. If it is not photoshopped to be that thin, she is a two-faces hypocrite.
Someone please knock some sense into this silly girl, or duct-tape her blabbering, rubbish-spewing mouth.
the problem is, she’s super skinny. who is she fooling?
Bish, get over yourself now. She is clearly insecure. Not attractive.
Yeah. Someone who constantly needs to affirm their weight is insecure.
my god, from the way she talks she makes it seem like the only way that you could be as “big” as her is by stuffing your face with junk food and never working out. She is offensive to both women who are skinny and those who are struggling with being overweight!
Are you people serious???…it’s just a comment and you accuse her of being ignorant?. Why do you people build these celebrities up and then knock them down?. Lawrence seems pretty natural to me just give her a break and don’t take a comment that could have been taken out of context seriously. Jennifer lawrence is beautiful and talented and down to earth and GOD knows that ANNOYS the hell out of people like you.
m. You are beginning to really irk me with your comments: “Are you people serious???…it’s just a comment and you accuse her of being ignorant?” “If [people] talk about how they want to look like a real woman they are being offensive …you guys are…nuts.” “How exactly is she being offensive by saying that she doesn’t want to look like the typical Hollywood starlet?” Listen to yourself, m. Because your comments are beginning to sound a lot like little Miss Jennifer’s here.
Many commenters have stated that they agree with her in saying she wants to look like a woman, yes- most people think it’s refreshing that there’s a girl in Hollywood who doesn’t strive to be (unnaturally) skinny. However her comments suggest that she IS in fact extremely ignorant; the way she puts across her opinion makes it seem that she thinks its OK to put down others in the process of exalting oneself.
Similarly, I believe that you are also missing the point; no one has a problem with her stating her opinion. No one has a problem with her wanting to look like a ‘real woman.’ No one has a problem with her not wanting to look like a typical Hollywood starlet. What we have a problem is it the WAY she states her comments, “I’m so sick of all these other actresses looking like birds.” “I wanted to look like a woman and not a prepubescent 13-year-old boy.” It’s great that you have a positive image of how women should look but I feel that in doing so, you’re blatantly overlooking the offensiveness of her comments. She could just have said “I like to have my curves.” Rather than “I want to look like a real woman… not a prepubescent 13-year-old-boy.” By using the term ‘real woman,’ she implies that people without a similar figure are not ‘real’ and by stating that she does not want to look “like a 13-year-old boy, she’s suggesting that slim women not only look ‘immature’ but are also the opposite gender, which, let’s face it is ignorant, insulting and in my opinion totally unnecessary.
The attitude you have towards her comments is a little worrying as it seems you think it’s acceptable to use derogatory clichés… as long as you are conveying a positive message, which it’s not. Think about if a conventional wrestler, for example were talking about sumo wrestlers and obesity and said “I want to look like a real woman, not a giant beached whale.” Would you have the same viewpoint? I highly doubt it. The people who oppose her comments are not ‘nuts,’ we just acknowledge the fact that there’s a certain way to put your viewpoint across to avoid seeming like an idiot- and it’s certainly not like this.
Just to add, in no way do I think large people resemble beached whales; it’s just an example- not the best I could have used as I know conventional/sumo wrestlers are not usually female, but you get the picture. P.S. sorry for the rant!
Also, m. I know that the media misquote or blow things out of proportion sometimes but I’m kind of failing to understand how the quote “I wanted to look like a real woman, not a 13-year-old boy” could have been “taken out of context.” Maybe I’m the one being ‘ignorant,’ but in my opinion, there’s only one thing that could be interpreted to mean if those were her words. :/
“Are you people serious???…it’s just a comment and you accuse her of being ignorant?”
What else would you accuse someone of being ignorant other than their comments? It’s not like we are calling her ignorant based on her apperance. I’d say it’s pretty valid to judge whether or someone is ignorant or not based on what comes out of their mouth.
“don’t take a comment that could have been taken out of context seriously.”
I don’t see how a comment like that could have been taken out of context. If she actually said it, it’s pretty straight-forward.
“Jennifer lawrence is beautiful and talented and down to earth and GOD knows that ANNOYS the hell out of people like you.”
I don’t think that’s what’s anoying people. She’s beautiful, but her personality is ugly as hell. I think people are annoyed because she is insulting others to feel better about herself. There was absolutely no need to refer to other women as 13 year old boys in any case; she could have expressed her comment without adding that part, but she voluntarily chose to add it. Why? To make those women feel bad. And then she feels better. That’s ugly.
I really don’t get why people call her chubby?! She isn’t chubby at all.
You’d think she could just say she doesn’t ever wanna look emaciated,the whole comparing slim women to boys is ridiculous and unfair.
No matter how thin a woman gets,her skeleton and bone structure will always be different to a man’s.
And maybe some women like to look androgynous. I know that I think it’s attractive. More attractive than your average,boring airhead who eats a good bit and doesn’t work out all that much,like Jennifer here,anyway haha In her comments she sounds like she’s just obsessing and trying to make herself feel better more than anything. Sad that she has to put others down to do that.
I’m an average size woman with a curvy shape- big hips,big ass etc. And I think women of all sizes look good. Nobody in Hollywood should ever be spouting different. This whole ”you have to have super curves to be attractive” thing is insane.
You people crack me up…none of you think for youselves you all have to write the same things whether or not you truly believe it. The ganging up mentality. If an actress is thin and talks about how they can eat whatever they want, then they are being offensive. If they are full figured and they talk about how they want to look like a real woman they are being offensive …you guys are a piece of work…you’re nuts.
M, ur a soldier man. I absolutely agree with you. I rarely comment and mostly lurk, but I have to agree with you here. I was getting increasingly perturbed as I read more of the comments. I am happy that there is at least one person whose opinions different from the “group think” mentality.
While what she said was in poor taste, I honestly do not see why it would lead to so much attacks on her person. Anyways whatever..
i highly doubt much “group think” is going on here. many people would find this comment offensive regardless of what other people thought. even the first few comments were not in favor of what she said, and they didnt have much “group think” to go on…
Very true, Jessica… wait… unless the first few commenters were psychic, that is?
I used to like her but now her comments just make her seem so ugly to me.
The things that annoy me:
1. She’s not exactly big compared to the average Hollywood actress!
2. No female looks like a 13 yr old boy. Yes certain body parts may look less womanly than others depending on body type but that doesn’t detract from the fact that they ARE a woman.
However, I do agree with her about how annoying it is that the media shows us one shape and size even though there are many different body shapes, heights etc. I just wished she’d worded it in a less offensive way!
I’ve never seen her in anything, so I don’t know how she looks on camera/what her acting ability is like, but the stupid shit she says body wise have totally turned me off of her. She can’t just say that she likes to have a little weight on her, she has to go out of her way to diss other people in the process. Yeah, there are unnaturally thin, emaciated women in Hollywood (Giuliana Rancic, I’m looking at you!) but by comparing them to teenage boys you’re not doing anyone a favor…just insulting them to bolster your own ego. Shut up.
I can see where she is coming from. She appears thin to many of you, but she is considered “bigger” for Hollywood, and her recent excess of comments regarding the subject is probably from her feeling constant pressure to adhere to the standards. I have a friend who used to live out here in Los Angeles and worked as an actress. She was gorgeous, and just perfect. But she was always told on auditions and such that she needed to lose 20-30 lbs which was outrageous for health standards, but not for the industry. I don’t think she’s trying to criticize naturally thin women, but her comments are in anger and annoyance to the actresses that starve themselves and perpetuate the unrealistic beauty standards. And if you think that most actresses look the way they do naturally, you are wrong. Many of these women go to extreme measures to achieve a body that is barely maintainable. Sorry if I sound bitchy, but I get it. I live in Los Angeles and moved out here 11 years ago to work in the fashion industry. As a petite size 2, you can still be made to feel like an ogre in the land of 00′s. Whenever I go home I feel super thin, but as soon as I get off the plane in LA I could easily lose 10 lbs. It’s madness. I guess some of you think her comments are hypocritical being slim, but I think they are genuine, and I don’t understand why there is such a backlash against a woman speaking out against the problem. In reality the more women do this, the more it helps all of us to not have to buy into the BS, and accept ourselves. Is there something so wrong with that?
i agree partially with you and i can see where you are coming from, but i think the main reason people on this site are against jennifers’ quote is because with all these actresses saying things like ‘real woman have curves’ ect. there is a growing tendency of bashing women who are naturally thin or simply lack curves..which is unfair as much as saying that women should be thin to be considered beautiful, and equally bad.
Well said!
i understand but why is it every time that an actress speaks out about the pressures of hollywood and body image, it’s always negative opinions about thin women? yes there should be more actresses taking a stand against what hollywood perceives as beautiful but doesn’t give her or anyone the right to stereotype thin women or any woman. if i was to put down big women to make a point, you don’t think i would get comments about how rude and mean i am? that’s the whole point a lot of people are saying. like it or not there are women who are naturally skinny and can’t anything about it.
How exactly is she being offensive by saying that she doesn’t want to look like the typical Hollywood starlet?. Isn’t that what you people usually despise about Hollywood actresses?. Anyway, Lawrence could have had her comments taken out of context or not…it doesn’t really matter, she’s a marvelous actress, beautiful and from every interview I’ve ever read she’s seems very likeable…I think you guys are truly very jealous of the girl…you types usually are of girls like Jennifer so you jump on the littlest thing and make it seem like she said something truuly offensive when you know that she did not. Get over yourselves, she didn’t say anything wrong.
@ m. Get a life loser, look at you getting all defensive over some actress.
you keep referring to commenters as “you people” and “you types”… it seems you don’t really like us or the site, so why do you even bother visiting??
she does look like the typical hollywood starlet to me. who are these oh so much skinnier girls? cause everyone doesn’t want to look like them – yet apparantly they are everywhere?? explain that to me.
I agree with Lux…I’m not sure I understand the negative opinions of some of the posters here. I wonder, have any of you ever worked in the entertainment industry in LA?. The first thing young actresses are told is LOSE WEIGHT…Lawrence didn’t say anything offensive in this article. It would appear that some of you feel the need to criticize the woman. As far as I can tell Lawrence didn’t say anything wrong or offensive and considering the fact that I have yet to read a negative thing written about Lawrence from a co-star, director, producer she seems genuine to me.
“have any of you ever worked in the entertainment industry in LA?. The first thing young actresses are told is LOSE WEIGHT…Lawrence didn’t say anything offensive in this article.”
If she is frustrated with the industry or she is being pressured to lose weight, and is angry about that, then she should express her anger over that.
Displacing her anger and insulting those that are not the reason why she is frustarted or angry is offensive.
Your reasoning is that she feels bad, so now she is entitled to make others feel bad too? I guess the next time I’m having a rough day I’m just going to slap some people. If I feel bad, everybody else should too, right?
Maybe you’re right and maybe not, but if you are right, she needs to learn to control her anger and direct it at the right source, in a constructive manner, instead of breeding more anger in more people.
I give it two years before she’s scary skinny but claims she only lost weight because she started “taking care of her body”
(and theres nothing wrong with that as long as youre not obnoxiously self righteous about having extra meat on your bones to begin with)
She’s offensive because of the prepubescent boy comment. No woman looks like a 13 year old boy, no matter her size and shape. Jennifer sounds like she’s just jumping on the bandwagon, when really these kinds of comments need to stop (same with the cheesesteak part–sounds ridiculous and a little pathetic in a “look at me, I’m a real woman who eats a cheeseteak” way). Maybe she didn’t mean to come across like this, and since I don’t know her I can’t say, but that’s how she reads to me from this excerpt.
To be frank, she seems quite average to me. She’s not that much bigger that the skinnier actresses, nor is she really curvy either. She’s a normal, healthy slim girl but lacking anything remarkable in terms of face, whr, boobs, or hips/butt (just my opinion). So I don’t know why she keeps talking about herself or what women should look like.
wooohhoo!!! Finally a female role model whose a good actress and who is actually speaking with some sense !!! Some woman in hollywood, who are grown woman NOT teenage girls! are trying to have bodies of twelve year old girls.. that is so crazy to me..
Well, she sure knows how to keep her name in the press with repeated comments like these!
I don’t believe her. call me what you will, but I don’t. I’ve heard this comment in slightly different form from every single actress out there pretty much- thick, thin, skinny, fat- they all say ‘I love my curves, i want to be a real woman’- and the few who have been so skinny that the media basically accuses them of having an eating disorder, just say ‘oh I can’t help it but of course i wish i had curves I wish i looked like a real woman’. I don’t disagree with the message that there is such a thing as too thin, nor should anyone aspire to this by starving themselves, but couldn’t she have just said that? why do they always have to talk about how much they stuff themselves, and when you are getting your hair done?! I can’t even drink the cup of tea they bring me in the hairdressers cause they are always pushing my head forward, pulling it back, brushing hair all over my face- she just sounds ridiculous. and why would she need to ‘prove it?’ seems to me girls like her who constantly talk about sttuffing their faces while looking like this are actually putting out a far more unrealistic and dangerous message.
She actually said that there’s proof of her eating a Philly cheesesteak…wow how much more immature and insecure can a girl get?
She’s only twenty it’s not like she’s in her late twenties or early thirties. She doesn’t strike me as immature just inexperienced and journalists are using this to their advantage.
because of people like the commenters on this page who would DISBELIEVE EVERYTHING an actress says!!! THAT is why she would make an “immature” comment like that. People on this site are seriously nutso sometimes. SMDFH
To both of you: any twenty year old worth her salt would know exactly how the media skews words. And she obviously knows she’s in the spot light and people are listening to her right now so to actually say there’s proof of her eating habits shows she’s immature and insecure. If she were confident she’d say something along the lines of “yeah I eat a cheesesteak what of it” or “yeah Philly cheesesteaks are a big favorite for me next question”
sorry but u look like a skinny 13 year old boy stop lying and eat
Does she think she’s being new/cool or groundbreaking with this?
Hollywood starlet: I burp and swear and eat cheeseburgers, guys love me cause I break the mould!
Happens every five minutes and it’s so boring. Also the phrases “12/13 year old boy or “like a woman/real woman” are getting ridiculously tired. Not every question about diet has to be answered with a sweeping statement about body image.
Also I just googled “philly cheesesteak”.. doesn’t look like it possesses the magical powers to transform prepubescent boys into women?
“”.. doesn’t look like it possesses the magical powers to transform prepubescent boys into women?”
Grass-fed, no. Hormone-fed, maybe.
Haha!
Hahahaha
i am so sick of people complaining “what about girls who are naturally skinny, blah blah BLAHHHHHHH”
well you know what good for you! YOU WILL NEVER HAVE PROBLEMS IN LIFE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE LOVED AND NEVER BE MADE FUN OF.
no matter how much people say “i want to be curvy or i love being curvy or i only like curvy women” NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY SAY THAT SKINNY CHICKS WILL always have the upper hand and the first pick. Ok so just STFU.
ur blessed and lucky we get it, can you just let us normal or curvy girls feel good for once!
Being skinny doesn’t mean you’re loved. Haven’t you seen the amount of hate thin girls get here and in the media?
=/ I don’t really understand why people make comments like this. Honestly, I am super curvy and I have only ever been “made fun of” or laughed at like, a grand total of 2 times in my life.
I am not even just saying this to be irritating, but I do notice that a lot of hate gets directed at thin women. Don’t get me wrong – I see a lot of negative stuff about (usually only slightly) overweight and even normal, average sized women – but there also seems to be a lot of mean-ness directed towards thinner women.
I think that the majority of people (on this site, in the real world, and especially Hollywood) need to actually come to terms and accept that women really do come in all shapes and sizes – and every shape and size has to the potential to be attractive. That sounds super corny, but it’s really true.
…And by the way, the only women I have EVER seen in my life were not very thin, but VERY muscular and had very masculine features to begin with – and even those women still looked enough like women for me to be able to tell. =P
Kay, I agree with you. As a naturally “thin” (pre-pubescent 13 year old boy looking, perhaps?!) woman, I have received a considerable amount of negativity, especially coming from other women, and I have always been somewhat insecure about my lack of curves. However, this negativity does not seem to come from a dissatisfaction about the way I look, but rather a skepticism about how I got to look this way/maintain my figure – women can’t seem to believe that I exercise moderately and eat HEALTHFULLY (meaning I don’t deprive myself, but I don’t often gorge and I make sure to maintain a balanced diet)… They automatically assume I must be doing something like starving myself or exercising to an unhealthy extreme. Furthermore, it’s not like I can just gain weight and miraculously sprout curves… I’ve been a little heavier (by overeating often and not having a balanced diet, ironically, though I was never near clinically overweight), and like many “thin” or “non-curvy” women, I tend to gain all over, rather than in more desirable places like the boobs and butt.
So, maybe I take offense to Lawrence’s comments because I myself am the epitome of this 13 year old prepubescent boy, or maybe I am merely griping because the grass is always greener and curves by default seem sexier, but I think she is somewhat out of line. I understand the sentiment, but, as many others have commented before me, she has insensitively sniped women who are naturally thin, and women who would rather choose a salad over an ingestion-inducing cheesesteak. Neither of which should be considered a problem.
i completely agree with everything you said about why this quote offended you. i will admit i do not eat healthily at all, i would much prefer a big mac to a salad or candy over anything, but have always been naturally thin/athletic and don’t have boobs or hips to speak of. i took offense to this comment because it sounds like an insult to anybody who looks like me, and i think i look fine
So true.
And Jennifer L. doesn’t even look “curvy”, she looks average and a little thicker around the arms and legs than most of Hollywood. Curvy and slim, that’s Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Scarlett J., not Jennifer Lawrence.
I have to disagree here. I had always been an averaged sized girl until my sophomore year in college, when someone pointed out I looked like I had gained weight since high school…I then started to lose weight drastically, and went through a “scary skinny” period. During this time when I weighed 99 pounds at 5’5″, I received much more male attention than I ever had! My fellow females were critical and called me out for “starving myself”, out of jealousy, I deduced. I guess my meaning here is that when I was at my thinnest I had it much easier than I did at my heaviest, by far.
Jess, true – I seem to attract more attention being thin from males, but more negative (skepticism/jealousy?) from females than when I was a more “normal” (whatever that means…) size… But I’ve also heard rude comments from guys about lack of boobs/ass/curves/what have you. No one can win, I guess
What a load of rubbish. Being thin means you dont ever have problems? Wow I never realized I was immune to grief, loss, pain, poverty, insecurity, loneliness, heartache, illness, or all of life’s other potential problems. I guess every problem has been only an illusion! You make thin women sound like they aren’t even human.
Being thin does NOT mean you are happy or have a good life or easy life or are loved or any of that stuff, people should realize that otherwise it’s like chasing a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
amen to that.
“YOU WILL NEVER HAVE PROBLEMS IN LIFE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE LOVED AND NEVER BE MADE FUN OF.”
So not true. As someone who has been underweight my entire life, I unfortunately know first-hand that many people will tease someone for being thin when they wouldn’t even DREAM of mentioning someone being overweight. Chicken legs, skin-and-bones, Skeletor, bony, anorexic — I’m pretty sure being called all those things classifies as “being made fun of.” I’ve been brought to tears by the things people said about my thinness in the past. Trust me, being skinny isn’t always a walk in the park.
Amanda, your comment is, unfortunately equally as ignorant as Jennifer’s. “i am so sick of people complaining “what about girls who are naturally skinny, blah blah BLAHHHHHHH” Well has it ever occurred to you that perhaps people are ‘blah blah BLAHHHHHHHing because they’re actually genuinely offended by her comments? You sound extremely bitter, I’m sorry to say. As to the “YOU WILL NEVER HAVE PROBLEMS IN LIFE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE LOVED AND NEVER BE MADE FUN OF.” statement- who exactly are you to say that? From your comment, I’m inclined to believe you’re one of these ‘real’ women i.e. not slim/skinny and I’ve got to say, yes there are a lot of thin women showcased by the media but, from my perspective, there’s a whole lot of skinny hate out there as well.
Erica- no disrespect as I usually love reading your comments but I have to say, I disagree with you (and Solaxia) here. I think the reason that there are a lot of comments referring to ‘skinny hate’ is because though thin figures are often praised in the media, from my experience there is a lot of hate for ‘skinny’ girls in everyday life. For example, I once attended a party and was eating a lot of Pringles (though I HATE salt and sugar is my weakness!) and a lot of the time, I eat ‘junk’ foods in moderation. Anyway, I’d just finished polishing off more Pringles than I possibly should have when a friend offered me skittles, which I declined due to the fact that in my mind, salt and sugar don’t go well together!) Suddenly another friend piped up ‘Oh, it’s OK, Zoe- there’s only like, one calorie in a skittle- you’re not going to get fat or anything!” I didn’t say a word, but I’m pretty sure you could tell my reaction from my facial expression.
Another instance: On my way to a shopping trip with friends, I saw a girl look me up and down and hiss “Skinny biiiitttttttcccccchhhhhhh” under her breath. I paused, looked right at her long enough to let her know I’d heard and was annoyed, but again didn’t say a word. Another time, once when talking to a friend about how hula hooping makes my back hurt (we were discussing less primary school games, for some reason) she replied “Oh, well maybe that’s a sign you need to gain weight.” A statement, accompanied by a snide ‘smile.’ Can I just add, that I’m not at all scarily ‘skinny,’ ‘anorexic,’ ‘like a bird’ or ‘like a 13-year-old boy.” I’m 5’10.5, and between 140 and 145 pounds, putting me well within the ‘healthy’ range and I don‘t eat restrictively or exercise excessively to get like that- it‘s just how I am.
Yes, I’m not denying that there’s a lot of hate for bigger girls- I’ve seen it myself but I’m just saying I think it’s extremely unfair to dismiss the fact that ‘skinny’ women are put down too- maybe not a lot in the media, but certainly in society and just because you’ve had little to no experience of it, doesn’t mean it’s inexistent. (Sorry for the life story!)
I hate that. When I went for pre-op a few years ago for minor surgery, the woman who weighed me couldn’t believe my weight. I was underweight at the time, but not grossly so. I’d heard it all by then, so I waved her off. “yeah, I know…”
She goes, “You’re definitely not fat!!!” like she was trying to convince me. Awkward moment. I could tell she thought I had an eating disorder, when in reality, I’d dropped the weight from extreme stress (sounds like a model excuse, but I’m serious!)
thank you for writing that because some people here seem to not care what skinny women go through and assume we have it easy and everyone loves us. the media may praise thin women but will turn around and say mean things as well. i guess no one will ever know what it is like to be thin. i’m thin and i deal with issues and problems like every day people. i wish would stop assuming skinny women have it easy because we don’t.
I said it in the last post of her but I’ll say it again- it’s a bit rich coming from a 19 year old. Your figure is still changing at that age, as is your metabolism. She’s not a woman, yet. As she get’s older and is in the industry longer, she may find it harder to resist the ‘pressure.’
Then again, I guess she can say something this naive because she is young. But oh man! She does come off as arrogant (probably just insecurity) and annoying.
Aesthetically speaking, I don’t find her face appealing at all.
wow, her posture sucks in the second picture.
I’m around 13-14 year old boys all day and they look nothing like what people refer to as a “boyish figure”. Most have gone through puberty and frail or waif-like. They actually have quite strong and broad shoulders and muscular stomachs and narrow hips, like a man but shorter and skinnier. I don’t see any boys at school that look like a runway model. I don’t know where people get their analogies from. Also why does she need to bring down other woman who want to be thin or are naturally that way as long as its healthy because if its a woman she looks like a woman, regardless of shape. And why is she implying she’s so curvy? It might just be my opinion, but she doesn’t have the curviest shape in the geometry book
Prepubscent girls and boys look pretty much the same. Its more correct to just call someone a prepubscent. Honestly, sometimes i see women so thin that they appear to have almost no secondary sexual characteristics. This is the look she is talking about. However i’m sure the majority of thin actresses do not have that problem. I do think its sad that this actress has probably been asked to lose weight, because that seems the most reasonable explanation for why she’s commenting on this issue.
SHE IS SKINNY. WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT.?
What a bitch. You know she’s insecure, since she has to put down other body-types in order to glorify her own. -_-
She is pretty, I’m not going to sit here and say that she is ‘ugly’ ‘fat’ etc.
I did though loose respect for her when I read this, even if this is ‘out of context’ that statement speaks loudly about how she feels about herself.
For people defending her talking about the industry etc, seriously.. there are many actresses who are not ultra skinny and have a ‘womens’ body.
Secondly a skinny womens body does not look anything like a boys?
It seems to be a throw away comment that women make when they are insecure in their own body, just as when skinny women say comments about larger women.
If I wanted to be completely honest, She isn’t my number one idea of what I consider beautiful, or feminine etc. Her body to me is average, and her face is pretty. But not beautiful or show stopping. Though im not insulting her saying things like how chubby she is etc, because it would show my insecurities more (if they were there)
It seems these women also dont realise that one can be skinny and curvy, and that does not mean huge boobs and butt.
American really seems to have an obsession with all that fakeness. (not meaning to put anyone in a bubble and know not everyone feels like this)
A woman is a woman, she is sexy and beautiful whatever her size and shape. Its an attitude, and this attitude is not appealing in the slightest to me and many males i know here.
She knows how to get media attention, good for her.
Very well said!
Completely agree!
I think she’s just insecure and tired of people in Hollywood telling her to lose weight. She’s just being very passive aggressive, and probably doesn’t realize she sounds kind of like a jerk and offending people. Because to be honest, I know what curves look like, and she’s not that curvy.
i don’t think a cheesesteak and salad are what differentiates a womans figure as womanly and ‘less’ womanly.
Well, I think if I were her I would be saying the same thing. If you look at the actresses in Hollyweird the majority seem to be wasting away, subsisting on “1200″ calories or less a day. Seriously, when a woman is naturally very thin she will look amazing, and the same goes with a woman who is naturally curvy and voluptous. However, when a woman or girl starves herself to fit into a size zero, two or four that is another thing entirely.
Look at meagan fox as an example. When she first hit the scene she was curvy and soft looking, now all of a sudden she has a “lightning fast”metabolism and “cannot put on weight!” Um no. She is over exercising and undereating, that is the reality.
Anyways jennifer is a pretty girl, these pictures are photoshopped to make her appear smaller but I wish they had left her alone. Just let her be the size she is. Damn is it that hard? And for the comment about wanting to have breasts in the X-men movie? Awesome. i am glad she is taking a stand and just hope to hell she keeps it this way, because it would be a shame if she suddenly turns into an emaciated orange creature. :/
um ok shes skinny with maybe 1 cup size bigger than the girls shes talking about ,, its not like shes jenniffer hudgens or something ot be saying that
That’s pretty rude to use the term “like a prepubescent boy”. Some very skinny people actually can maintain a waist and have fuller hips, which she is probably just jealous of
Oh puuhleez, skinny people blah, blah, blah, I highly doubt she is jealous of “skinny people with fuller hips” she has an amazing figure. Much better than a walking stick figure with hip bones jutting out. ew.
We get it jennifer you say the same thing every time!! But, I bet you’ll be the first one to lose weight if it meant advancing your career in any possible way. And like other posters have mentioned you’re curvy yourself so do yourself a favor and shut up. Always going on about the same old thing, me thinks your jealous.
the magazines are clearly acting her these questions. i’m sure she doesn’t just go around talking about it. i love her and she’s a great actress. there are plenty of people representing the way too skinny crowd, i’m happy to have her representing normal women.
On an unrelated note, Versus, there are some new photos of LeAnn Rimes in a bandage dress looking pretty darn skinny, could we have a post on that if you haven’t already? Thanks.
great, another comment by an actress. “i want to look like a woman, not a 13 year old boy”. seriously grow up. i get tired of people bashing thin women because of what society says. hollywood actresses aren’t even that thin if you ask me so i don’t why people are still believing they are starving themselves. and has she seen 13 year old girls? most of them don’t have shapes like a boy.
that comment is offensive and it’s pretty much showing she is insecure and the only way to build herself up is to trash women who aren’t curvy or considered “real”. and for the people defending her needs to understand where a lot of posters are coming from. just because someone is thin doesn’t mean they are treated with respect or isn’t judged. skinny people are human beings with feelings so why is it okay to constantly make rude remarks about a thin person? if jennifer hates what hollywood is doing to women then take that issue with hollywood, not skinny women.
Um thats because women in Hollywood ARE starving themselves. Plenty of actresses have said it themselves, and they are always on crazy restrictive diets just open up any tabloid magazine. Marcia Cross anyone?
And yes, they DO have the shape of a 13 year old boy, which is straight up and down with no boobs or butt.
so you’re saying that women who are shaped up and down are shaped like a boy? and how do you know every actress is starving herself? the actresses i see aren’t as thin as people make it out to be. how jennifer said it was rude and comes off as insecure and bitter.
i’ve worked on films and seen it firsthand. they don’t eat! they smoke and drink coffee/diet coke. it’s terrible to be around.
“And yes, they DO have the shape of a 13 year old boy, which is straight up and down with no boobs or butt.”
No. They have the shape of a woman who happens to be straight up and down without an ass or boobs, a body type that occurs in celebrities who are starving themselves, naturally thin women, average women, chubby women, and fat women.
Oh and I almost forgot, Whitney Port subsisted on a “super healthy” 1100 calorie diet. Wow what a great way to ruin your health and basically starve yourself so that your body feeds off the important internal organs such as your heart. Well done.
Whitney Port is one in a million actresses and ‘normal’ people. Just because Whitney Port “subsisted on a 1100 calorie diet” doesn’t mean that ever other actress or ‘skinny’ woman is doing the same; you can’t shove everyone in the same ‘box’- it’s just not big enough!
Every time I read her comments I think about a classmate of mine who used to cry growing up because she could not put on any weight no matter what she did. I imagine there are tons of other naturally skinny teenaged girls like that today getting insecure upon reading her comments saying that they don’t “look like women”.
Where are her legs?! Ugh. And double ugh to the same quotes. We. Get. It.
i really … really dislike her now … i dont like it when people use that remark becuase what if your naturaly thin huh??????
Hmmm well maybe the same exact thing that the girl who is called FAT for being over a size two does….
Seriously if your “naturally thin” in this society people pretty much worship you for some inane reason. GET OVER IT.
no i won’t get over people disrespecting skinny women, thinking it’s okay. and not everyone worship being thin.
“Seriously if your “naturally thin” in this society people pretty much worship you for some inane reason. GET OVER IT.”
So what you’re saying is, if you’ve ever been complimented on your appearance, get over it when someone insults you? I don’t follow this logic.
I absolutely love the lengths to which some people have gone to in order to defend this comment. Pat on the back to all of you for praising slinging insults at people. You know what that leads to? More insecurity. You know what more insecurity leads to? More insults.
You praise this kind of behavior now, but pretty soon when it goes through the cycle, it will be biting you in the a** when someone makes an insult regarding YOUR body type, and then you’ll get all huffy and puffy and “How dare she!” too.
It’s not rocket science that when you make an insult towards shapeless or thin people, they will cast an insult towards curvy or fat people, tall people at short people, short people at tall people, big boobs at flat chested, flat chested at big boobs…etc.
I just hope you that are supporting this will be able to take what you support giving.
Whether it’s natural or not, if her goal is not to look like a prepubescent boy, she has failed. The only curves I can see are illusory, created by the dresses she’s donning.
unfortunately she was photoshopped, therefore eliminating her curves.
Well, I’d certainly be glad to take your word for it, as I’m not at all familiar with her or her body’s shape.
I know that you can be thin and curvy because I am an example of that. I still don’t think I would classify her as “curvy”. Like i said, she’s not the curviest shape in the geometry book.
I think what really irritates me the most is the difference between what she says and the way she looks like … She might not be as skinny as other actresses, but I doubt she’s more than one dress size ‘bigger’.
Imagine her saying something like ‘ I want to look like a healthy woman and not unhealthily (for my body) skinny’ … That would have been something likeable. Hopefully that’s what she was trying to say and she just tends to express her opinion quite harsh. Either way, it comes off as offensive.
She’s really beautiful, and I get that she’s trying to promote a healthy body image, but she sort of comes across like she thinks she’s better than everyone. Maybe that is just how the interview is worded or something though.
She’s a pretty girl and at first I understood that it can be frustrating for her to be told to loose weight and to live in a world obsessed with body image. But she’s taking it too far with the anti-skinny comments. Ultimately, being rude and sounding like a frustrated bitch is just as unappealing as being obsessed by weight.
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I know some beautiful skinny girls and I know some beautiful fuller girls and none of them look like prepubescent boys… or birds (or whales, you get the point
About the whole ‘I eat cheeseburgers/like a man/…’ hype: if it’s true, good for them, I hope they enjoy their cheeseburgers but I don’t feel the need to know these kind of things. Talking like that is not very elegant/womanly in my opinion.
What is up with all the skinny people bashing being skinny and people ‘looking like prepubescent boys’. first of all that’s mean and unnecessary, 2nd of all, if we have to be overly critical and call people such names, then you (lady on this cover/other skinny people bashing skinnys) look like a prepubescent boy, so stop bashing. it’s like nina dobrev saying, guys don’t like skinny girls, when she has bones protruding from everywhere (don’t get me wrong, i actually like her body, i’m just saying). DO THEY REALIZE THEY’RE BEING MEAN TO THEMSELVES?
nvm, just googled jenniver lawrence, she doesn’t look like a ‘skinny prepubescent boy’. but my point about skinnies bashing skinnies still stands.
She’s not skeletal but she is slim. Is 10 lbs the difference between looking womanly or not? Her comment simply sounds assinine to me, rather than horribly insulting.
She sounds stupid. All women regardless of size and shape should just eat healthy and exercise regularly so they can look the best they can for THEIR size and shape. No matter if it’s thin, average, bigger built. She should stop whining about cheese burgers because everyone knows they are nowhere near healthy.
And like I said before, she may think she’s “curvy” but she’s nowhere near women like Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Scarlett Johansson. She looks like an average thin girl with somewhat bigger arms and legs.
I think Jennifer is a case in which she has heard so many times by the media that she is very beautiful that end up thinking is real.
She is not ugly, certainly not, but she’s nothing special. Her body is a little voluptuous, but nothing impossible to see in a girl of 20 years.
And her face is not exactly the most beautiful in Hollywood. Her whole face looks bloated, not fat, bloated, reminds me of when I was wisdom teeth removed.
Her upper eyelids are always puffy and the shape of her eyebrows not makes her any favor (I’m thinking in candid and other photos, not the ones in this editorial, that in which doesn’t look great).
Her nose is not perfect.
I say this not to insult her, is just what I see in terms of beauty.
Of course, the most important thing is that she works well, because she is an actress, and she act very well and everyone recognizes her. But that does not mean it’s beautiful, is just a commercial invention to sell more magazines. Of course I understand that many people like her, but I think she has more the charm of the “girl next door” but doubt she would win any beauty contests in my opinion.
If it was the first time we saw any pictures of Jennifer, I doubt that most say “wow, she is gorgeous”, but we identify her physical with her talent as an actress and we get used to see her. And sometimes what you like is what you get used to. Nobody likes the first cigarette, but with time …
Or the summer song that the first time you hear it you think is horrible, but hear it on the radio over and over again and finally the end up singing it.
She reaallly seems to hate skinnies and to be honest it comes off as quite bitter and jealous. I don’t know whether she is or not but in my opinion she should word her views better.
Versus, any change you could post something about Taylor Armstrong from Real Housewifes of Beverly Hills?
When I saw her past quotes, I knew it would be a lot of angry, insulted people commenting, so I decided not to read the comments. I agree with her sentiment, and her frustration is one that is shared with a lot of women. The fashion industry have a strong influence on what is deemed attractive in most industrialized countries, and it’s mostly run by men with a homosexual preference. So albeit it may not be rational, it is logical that the women in this industry is stripped from almost every feminine feature body wise. And it sets a standard that is almost impossible for the average women to attain naturally, as only a small percentage is born this way.
It’s a dangerous trend, as it distorts people’s perception of reality, and fails to send a healthy message. Which should have been, the fact that we all come in different shapes and sizes, and that they all can be beautiful.
Please, don’t misunderstand me when I say, there is a reason for why I declined chances and offers to become a fashion model for agencies like Elite M.M., etc. Actually, there are several reasons, but one of them is that I did not want to be a part of a world that dictates what beauty *should* be, and not what it *can* be. I’ve seen so many incredibly beautiful bodies and faces, and they are all so different, and it saddens me when they think that they need to change because they can’t find their look on the cover of magazines. People who have gotten sick in their extreme attempts to be what is deemed perfect. People who just don’t believe it when they’re told they’re attractive, because how can they be? The magazine covers tells them they’re not.
But humans have been like this for a long time, and it will more than likely never change.
“The fashion industry have a strong influence on what is deemed attractive in most industrialized countries, and it’s mostly run by men with a homosexual preference.”
Should an actress care if she is attractive or not? As an actress, she’d care about acting.
Your speech would be more appropriate if Jennifer was a model, but she’s an actress and does not work in the fashion world.
Which shows every time she speaks is to be very insecure, she cares too much for her physical appearance and for the body of others, that she has a proper body and the others that don’t look like her, not.
If she really accepts herself, would accept others as they are: fat, curvy, healthy or sickly skinny.
Why she compares herself with others who look like “birds ” or “13-year old boys”? What does she care how are the others?
seems like she’s trying too hard to prove she eats lol, it’s like she’s defensive about it or something.
well sorry, but she didn’t succeed at that, she DOES look like a prepubescent 13-year-old boy, maybe even 9..
whos’s jennifer lawrence?
Joey Lawrence in drag.
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SOME WOMEN JUST LOOK LIKE THAT!! WHEN I PUT ON WEIGHT, I JUST LOOK PREGNANT. I HAVE TO STAY THIN TO LOOK FREAKING NORMAL!!! argh!
Since the first pics I seen of her on here she has lost alot of weight, if you see the new pics of her as a brunette you can see how much weight she has lost!
i’m so offended by comments like this. i am a very very thin woman by nature. i have a very small butt, no hips and small breasts. so people aren’t supposed to look like me? am i not a real woman because i don’t have big boobs? jennifer lawrence, you are doing a disservice to women. you should preach for acceptance of ALL body types!! large, small, bony, muscular… we are all women and we are all beautiful. some people ACTUALLY have tiny bodies by nature. we are real too!
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She’s lovely, I adore her. Namely because “The Hunger Games” is my favorite book and I’m actually excited after having seen her in the trailer for it, sometimes movie adaptations of books can fall short and people be incorrectly cast so as not to embody the character correctly but aside from not being naturally brunette, she was perfectly cast as Katniss and after having read this I like her a lot. I don’t think she’s ridiculing naturally thin women, but an overwhelming majority of women in film today are pressured into dropping weight. Plenty of A list celebs even slim ones naturally admit to being asked to lose weight, and sometimes a ridiculous amount, like 20 lbs when they’re already thin. Maybe she should have been a little more diplomatic and said be who you are and the shape you’re naturally meant to be but don’t deprive yourself to fit into society’s vision of the ideal woman, especially if it means losing your natural shape. If you’re naturally slender rock it, if you’re more curvy with an hourglass shape, rock it, if you’re plus size rock it. Idk, I think to focus on that is to ignore the message that I think she meant to get across, not that it’s bad to be naturally thin, but well pick at a salad if you must not actually eat a sandwich because heaven forbid you gain 5 lbs.
well lawrence rly looks amazing but she’s one of those rarer people who can get away with being a celeb and not having to watch their weight cause she just has that naturally hot body and a nice face 2 go with it. but i AM sick that hollywood and society tries to tell us to look a certain way, because not every woman is 5’9 and 110lbs with blue eyes, blond hair, and loonggg legs…i’m none of those things, and sometimes i feel like even though those celebs and models may be beautiful,i think its a pretty shallow perception of beauty.