While speaking at Elle’s Women in Hollywood event on Monday night, actress Jennifer Lawrence opened up about a “degrading and humiliating” experience she had in Hollywood.
A female producer had her line up with about five women completely nude. They all stood side-by-side with only paste-ons covering their privates.
“After that degrading and humiliating lineup, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet,” Lawrence said.
When Lawrence brought this up to a producer, he told her “he didn’t know why everyone thought I was so fat, he thought I was perfectly ‘f–able.'” The actress said that she felt powerless against the directors and producers and didn’t want to become a whistleblower because she was afraid for her career.
“I couldn’t have gotten a producer or a director or a studio head fired. I let myself be treated a certain way because I felt like I had to for my career. I was young and walking that fine line of sticking up for myself without being called difficult, which they did call me, but I believe the word they used was ‘nightmare.'”
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– Written by Lauren Yeates