Actress Jennifer Lawrence speaks out about Hollywood's obsession with body image in an interview with Elle magazine.
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"The Hunger Games"
Jennifer Lawrence stars in the long-awaited adaptation of the series of novels set in a future dystopia where child are sent into battle against one another. Co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Wes Bentley, Toby Jones and Lenny Kravitz.
Which, incidentally, seems to be just fine by this budding role model.
"I'm 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'...I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong--not thin and underfed."
As for Jennifer, it wasn't all body talk with the magazine. The 22-year-old also briefly discussed her relationship with fellow thesp Nicholas Hoult.
"[He] is honestly my best friend too," she said. "He's my favorite person to be around and makes me laugh harder than anybody.
"We can eat Cheetos and watch beach volleyball and we turn into two perverted Homer Simpsons, like, 'Oh, she's got a nice ass.' I never thought we'd have such different opinions on asses."