Jennifer Lawrence Wants to Promote a New 'Normal' Body Type for Women
"Hunger Games" star is challenging society's views on what is viewed as the normal-body type. Her stand against unrealistic expectations of women in Hollywood to be unrealistically thin came a few days after a close chum, Amy Schumer, vehemently reacted to being classed into the "plus size" category by a fashion magazine.
The "Silver Linings" actress believes that women are being expected to fulfill an image that is considered "skinny," so much that other women who are more proportionally rounded are considered overweight.
And so she is making a call out to Hollywood to embrace a new "normal" body type for women.
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She tells Harper's Bazaar, "I would like us to make a new normal body type." Lawrence went on, "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 do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person."
The Oscar-winning actress also pointed out in her interview with the fashion magazine that people in the show business have become so used to accepting underweight as the norm that once a woman does approach her normal weight, she is described as "curvy."
Besides the issue on women's aesthetics, the Kentucky-born actress has also recently spoken out regarding the wage gap in Hollywood which, once more, is working to women's disadvantage.
At the furor she caused with her essay, in which she tried to find an "adorable way" to express her mind on the disparity of pay in the film industry, she stated that she had not realized it would cause that great a reaction. She said, "But, really, people who criticized it are people who think women should not be paid the same as men. So I don't really care what those people think."
