Jennifer Lawrence was 25 when she decided to say enough.
It was in 2016, during an interview with the show Extra at the premiere of the documentary “A Beautiful Planet”. She was asked about her friend Amy Schumer, another actress who, like her, had been labeled “plus size” in the media. Lawrence held nothing back: “There are so many different ways to be beautiful. Everyone always talks as if we were plus-size actresses. Our idea of what it means to have curves is, let’s say, very strange”.
Days earlier, in Harper’s Bazaar, she had said something similar: that she did not want to be called “normal”, but for the industry to understand that there is a new kind of normal body. Schumer, for her part, had complained on Instagram about appearing without permission in a special plus-size issue of Glamour magazine. Two actresses, the same discomfort with an industry that still does not know how to see real women.