Jennifer Lawrence degraded by female Hollywood executive

Actor was forced to do a humiliating line-up and asked to lose weight


Ians October 19, 2017
Jennifer’s comment comes in the wake of a list of revelations by Hollywood's women brigade on their experience of sexual assault by producer Harvey Weinstein. PHOTO: FILE

Jennifer Lawrence has revealed she was "degraded and humiliated" by a female Hollywood executive who forced her to lose weight and take part in a naked line-up for a film role.

Lawrence said she was asked to go on a crash diet. "When I was much younger and starting out, I was told by producers of a film to lose 15 pounds in two weeks. Super easy," Lawrence told ELLE's Women magazine.

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"During this time, a female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me. 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," she added.

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She tried to stand up for herself and told another producer she thought the weight loss demands were not appropriate. "He (other producer) said he didn't know why everyone thought I was so fat and he thought my body was perfect. I let myself be treated a certain way because I felt I had to for my career," she said.

Lawrence's comment comes in the wake of a list of revelations by Hollywood's women brigade on their experience of sexual assault by producer Harvey Weinstein.

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