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Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about her experiences of misconduct and harassment towards women in Hollywood, revealing that she was once forced to participate in a “nude line-up” during her early career.
Lawrence made the comments during a speech at Elle‘s Women in Hollywood event on Monday night (October 16) in Beverly Hills.
“When I was much younger and starting out, I was told by producers of a film to lose 15 pounds in two weeks,” she said. “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,” Lawrence added.
Jennifer Lawrence
Lawrence said that when she approached a male producer about the incident, he responded by saying that he “didn’t know why everyone thought I was so fat” and that “he thought I was ‘perfectly fuckable.’”
Describing herself as feeling “trapped” by the experience, Lawrence added: “I let myself be treated a certain way because I felt I had to for my career.”
“I’m still learning that I don’t have to smile when a man makes me uncomfortable,” she continued. “Every human being should have the power to be treated with respect because they’re human.”
“In all of the sadness, I think it’s been oddly unifying,” she added. “It’s so fundamental to the female experience to be mistreated and feel ashamed of it.”
Watch footage of Lawrence’s speech below:
Elsewhere at the event, Reese Witherspoon said that she was sexually assaulted by a film director when she was 16, what she described as not “an isolated incident” in her career.
“I wish I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly…
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