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Jennifer Lawrence Covers Elle: ‘In Hollywood, I’m Obese. I’m considered A Fat Actress’

Apparently, Jennifer Lawrence was remiss in eating second dinner because second dinner tasted better than first dinner ahead of the less-interesting alternative to Battle Royale about starving an entire population into submission then fattening up a select few teenagers with a pre-murder repast. The actress was literally called ‘fat’ by movie critics who whined that her body type took away from the verisimilitude of the movie because suspension of disbelief applied to murder forests but not to fat chicks. And if Lawrence counts as a ‘fat chick’ I should probably stop eating second dinner even if it’s delicious (cereal for second dinner, anyone?) because if she’s ‘obese’ I think I’ve already died of Diabeetus.

  • On her body type: ‘In Hollywood, I’m obese. I’m considered a fat actress. I’m Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach. I eat like a caveman. I’ll be the only actress who doesn’t have anorexia rumors. 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.’
  • On being a role model: ‘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.’
  • On her actor boyfriend Nicholas Hoult: ‘[My boyfriend] is honestly my best friend, and hopefully I’m his best friend too. He’s my favorite person to be around and he makes me laugh harder than anybody. We can eat Cheetos and watch beach volleyball and we turn into perverted Homer Simpsons, like, ‘Oh, she’s got a nice ass.’ I never thought we’d have such different opinions on asses.’
  • On her earnings: ‘Ten million dollars and I’m still living in my parents’ condo. I’ve always lived in a tiny rat-infested apartment in New York, or a little condo in L.A., or a normal house in [her native] Kentucky. I think it would be very bizarre to live in a big mansion by myself.’

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6 Comments

  1. CranAppleSnapple says:

    I love her. I covet her beauty as well. :)

    1. Yeah, but I want to poke myself in the eye when she mentions how her looks/ weight work against her in Hollywood :(

      1. deathvixen says:

        Why? I never got the impression we were watching the next Meryl Streep, so why should a casting agent pick her over someone who actually has the fortitude to put the Doritos down for a couple of weeks? Someone people can watch and not wonder the entire time “why is the talking dimple-dumpling in this role again?”

  2. Meghan says:

    I couldn’t love JLaw anymore…she is a normal weight and sadly yeah she probably does get comments to lose weight, so she isn’t making that up I’m sure. Anywhere but Hollywood no one would say a thing. I seriously think she is one of the only young girls acting that isn’t annoying..she seems fun and sweet and I can’t wait to see how her career goes

  3. deathvixen says:

    It’s not that she’s actually “fat”, but that she’s not toned – at all. She looks like a dumpling. Baby fat, maybe is what it is. Her bland personality doesn’t help, either.
    I find it odd that she says she actually worked – and hard, too – to get her “body”, and that she perceives herself as looking “fit and strong”, when she looks like someone who doesn’t “do” anything, and is just benefiting from a teenage metabolism. In other words, she looks normal for her age, which is fine for a normal person. But everybody bitching about body-types in Hollywood needs to ask themselves if they want to see “normal” on the screen. I don’t – I can go to the mall for that.
    And this role in particular actually called for someone looking much more “thin and underfed” as she put it, and for $10million, bitch could have channeled a little DeNiro for a role that really should have “scared her enough into dieting”. I doubt trying out for the real-life-role of being fat people’s hero will pay as well.

  4. deathvixen says:

    Okay, I read the link above, and I gotta say, I’m with the critics on this one. She was definitely pudgy in the movie, and showing pics of her in better light with better hair and better clothes long after shooting was over doesn’t change how she looked in the movie. I was absolutely distracted by her stuffed-sausage look while watching it, thinking it should have been called the homely games and wondering how this un-toned fat ass chick got in such a blockbuster in the first place.
    And for her to then act like she’s worried about giving teenage girls a bad body image – thanks, concern troll. It’s not Hollywood that gives them a bad body image, it’s their giant blubbering asses and things called “mirrors”. What’s wrong with people being honest with themselves? If you’re fat and disgusting, either accept it and get over it and settle for dying alone with a bucket of hot wings – or, and get this – maybe stop dipping everything in ranch flavored lard.
    Why should they feel good about raping people’s eyeballs? It’s not anyone’s job to make anyone else feel good about looking bad, so please, fat-ass celebrities, stop interviewing for it.