Jennifer Lawrence reflects on body image struggles early in career

Jennifer Lawrence has recently reflected on her struggles with body image issues while trying to make it as a Hollywood star.

Speaking at Elle’s Women in Hollywood event in a throwback interview, the Red Sparrow star recalled how movie producers would ask her to lose weight in “degrading” way.

“A female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me,” shared Jennifer.

The Joy actress revealed, “We are stood side-by-side with only tape on covering our privates. After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet.”

Jennifer remembered she was asked to work in an adult movie which she found quite “humiliating and degrading”.

While talking about playing a role as Katniss in The Hunger Games, the actress dished, “I was never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.'”

She told Elle magazine, “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.”

Meanwhile, in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Jennifer said, “I would like us to make a new normal-body type. Everybody says, 'We love that there is somebody with a normal body!' And I'm like, 'I don't feel like I have a normal body.'”

“I think we've gotten so used to underweight that when you are a normal weight it's like, 'Oh, my God, she's curvy.' Which is crazy. The bare minimum would be to up the ante,” she added.