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I’m Fat!

The moment these words leave my mouth, I will be accosted with compliments – telling me how beautiful I am, how that’s not true, that I’m just a little chubby. So here it is. I’m going to make the leap and say it — it’s okay to be fat. It is!

“Fat,” according to the dictionary, is “a natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, esp. when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.”

Fat is not a crime, ugliness, unhealthiness, or unworthiness. Fat is another trait in the artist’s palette of human expression.

When a simple descriptor becomes the absolute worst thing a woman can be called, we have to seriously re-evaluate what we allow this word to mean — both on a personal and societal level. Words are what we make of them, and this unfair connotation holds us to a terrible idea of what “beauty” means.

An important part of weight to understand is the genetic component. While it is true that exercise and a healthy diet can change your weight, our genetics are a powerful force to be reckoned with. According to a research article published on PLOS Genetics, weight is affected by several factors, both environmental and genetic. No matter what environmental factors are changed, everything goes back to genetic expression.

The connection between weight and health is dramatically misunderstood. Though there is a link between obesity and poor health, there is also a link between certain weight loss practices and a negative effective on overall health. The focus on losing weight to increase health creates a cycle of losing and gaining and losing and gaining through methods that just destroy women mentally and physically.

I am a healthy person. I could stand to lose a few pounds, but I do not consider myself unhealthy — nor am I ashamed. I do yoga every day, and can twist myself into the lotus position. I have been a vegetarian for over three years. Every day, I eat my protein, fruits, and veggies. I often walk — every one does in New York. Public transportation can only take you so far. I can’t run a marathon, but I have faith in my body to last as long as I do.

This has not always been the case. My body and I have battled for a long time. No matter what I do, I have always had the same shape. And no one believes that you have an eating disorder when you’re overweight. By changing my habits to healthier ones for myself, and not for my weight, I have come to a healthy sense of peace.

Positive role models are so key to this process. In a society where extra weight is demonized, finding women who stand strong and beautiful against the criticism prove that it is possible for anyone. Some personal favourites of mine are Rebel Wilson, Margaret Cho, Jennifer Lawrence, and Oprah Winfrey. All of these women have their own perspectives and messages; each of them is powerful in her own way.

With so much positivity available, why all the body hate? I’m not sure. I’ve noticed, though, that every magazine I leaf through is full of lovely, thin white ladies. Unless there is a special “plus size” column, fat women are not represented in any way. It’s hard to not feel invisible at this point. Equal representation must be demanded. The average model weighs 23% less than the average woman. Unrealistic standards create an illusionary world.

When a female actress is interviewed, they’re always asked about how they look so good. Men get questions on their characters, their acting methods — women get asked about their diet and exercise regimes. The message is clear. Your weight is the most important part of your experience. You are there to be looked at and nothing more. When actresses such as the wonderful Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway refuse to take part in this, a powerful message is sent to the powers that be: we are more than a number, a diet fad, or an exercise regime.

Margaret Cho once said “the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.” This is not always possible. You may not be comfortable with this. That’s okay. Start by appreciating yourself and realizing you are worthy just the way you are. Your body is wonderful. Every day, it pumps blood, dispenses oxygen, fights off diseases — thousands of little magical things no one notices. Your body is wonderful, and no matter how much you may weigh, that will never change. Beauty doesn’t have a weight limit. Neither should you.

Blessed be.

This essay originally appeared on rachelsimmons.com.

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The big fat body shape debate…

Rosamund Urwin

A friend recently raved to me about Silver Linings Playbook. She reeled off the film’s virtues — a rare romantic comedy with something smart to say, a stellar cast — before whispering conspiratorially: “And you know what the best bit was? There’s a part where you see Jennifer Lawrence’s stomach — and it wasn’t completely, 100 per cent flat.”

Lawrence clearly has a phenomenal physique. But my friend’s reaction shows how accustomed we have become to seeing “perfect” bodies on screen, buffed and bronzed. As a side-effect, on the rare occasions that we do see “imperfect” female flesh, it isn’t allowed just to be casual nakedness. Bellies, breasts and bottoms — unless Barbie-esque — become some sort of statement, even if an unintended one.

But if the (exceedingly) personal still is political, at least we are now starting to see a female “fatlash”. Cellulite need no longer be the cardinal sin on screen. Some tummies wobble a little.

Girls, the Sky Atlantic series that is probably more talked about than watched, is leading the way. Lena Dunham, who plays the protagonist Hannah, is the owner of a slightly rounded belly. She spends much of the show in her birthday-suited glory, with the lights staying firmly on during the show’s awkward, unsexy sex scenes.

Dunham has often spoken about why she is happy to show her body despite it provoking vicious comments about her shape. “There’s a part of me that goes, ‘You think I’m chubby? Well, LOOK AT ME NAKED.’” she said in a recent interview in the Times. “Then there’s also sometimes some feeling of rage. Where it would be fine for you to do it if you had a more traditional body — but you don’t, so you shouldn’t. Like fat girls should know to keep their clothes on.”

What is refreshing about Dunham’s attitude is that she doesn’t give a damn. She certainly doesn’t feel forced to attest to insecurities about her figure to please the body tyranny police.

This shift is also evident in the new E4 series My Mad Fat Diary, which has been dubbed “Skins for the Xanax generation”. Sharon Rooney, who plays a 16-stone 16-year-old in the series, has said of her role: “I do wish there were more normal people on television. Because when you walk down the street, it’s rare to see someone flawless.”

Some argue that when the illnesses of indulgence are costing the NHS an estimated £6 billion a year, we shouldn’t be cheering a bit of back fat or a big bosom. I disagree. For this isn’t about thin or fat, it’s about variety — not showing just one type of body on screen.

Besides, most of the leaders of this “fatlash” aren’t actually big, they are just standing next to desperately thin people, who have skewed our view of what a normal size is. When I was 18, I met a famous actress who was sometimes called “curvy” in the press. She had the legs of a gazelle, her bones jutted out. If she were curvy, I’d love to know what would be classed as skinny.

So Jennifer Lawrence is slim, just not a sample size. And Dunham actually has the body of Botticelli’s Venus (seriously — Google it) — which shows the shift (and shrinking) in what is held up as the paragon of female beauty in our society.

If there is just one teenager who feels a little more confidence because of Dunham’s blasé attitude or Rooney’s success, I’d call that a victory. Because adolescence is tough enough — what with two-faced friends and the boy you fancy circulating a picture of you “surfing the crimson wave” around class — without hating your “thunder thighs” and wondering why you don’t live up to a digitally-manipulated ideal. As Susie Orbach wrote in Fat is a Feminist Issue, “Without a body that girls feel all right about, nothing much in their lives feels OK.”

That body hatred, that self-aimed disgust, is often what makes the family-size bag of Maltesers seem so tempting, anyway. It’s the brief escape of comfort food, before the renewed shame. And this fixation is a distraction from other dreams — from winning Nobel prizes, from writing that hilarious, generation-defining screenplay, or just from being happy.

So I say: thank God for the fatlash. Long may it reign.

FATBASH

Jasmine Gardner

Fat is weighing in — all over our screens and our book pages. Get the measure of a gastric bypass memoir just out, by Anne H Putnam; Big Brother, a new Lionel Shriver novel about a woman whose brother is unrecognisable after gaining hundreds of pounds and an E4 series about a 16-stone teenager called My Mad Fat Diary and waistlines are clearly the big issue.

This can only be a good thing — hitting an increasingly pertinent topic of obesity right in the belly. Yet let’s be quite clear, nowhere in this debate does Jennifer Lawrence’s middle feature. The trim and healthy need no scrutiny.

Nevertheless, thin women and the fashion industry are often criticised for being bad role models to young girls. But only one in 100 women and girls aged 15-30 suffers from anorexia, with around four to six per cent of the population developing an eating disorder with characteristics of bulimia or anorexia or both. Meanwhile, more than a quarter of adults and 16 per cent of children in this country are obese. That figure is rising — fast.

Fat itself is not offensive. No need to cover your eyes when Lena Dunham, creator and star of Girls, gets on screen and flashes some flab.

Yet it’s a mistake to sell any woman as a proud, fat female — a pillar of the fat movement. This is what happens whenever a larger woman comes along. Whether Dunham is actually overweight no longer matters because everybody is already busy screaming, “Hurrah, well done fat woman,” praising a better, stronger and “normal” role model.

This is all wrong. Of course nobody should expect to be “celebrity thin” but the backlash against the super-skinny should not be to celebrate fat, but to celebrate health.

Believe that Dunham, by virtue of being supposedly fat (and not for anything else like her talent, for example), is someone to emulate and it becomes all too easy to convince yourself that your (probably much fatter) tummy is something to celebrate. You might think “Sod the bike ride” and stay on the sofa with a cake. Yet we don’t require any more encouragement to let ourselves go. We’re already doing so abundantly.

This is not a popular view. In general, and as Shriver’s protagonist in Big Brother points out, the stereotype of the thin person — or, if we’re really honest, the thin woman — is that she is a judgmental bitch. She’s dissatisfied with life and dissatisfied with you — and your size. She’s thin, she must be smug, let’s hate her. Conversely, the fat person is unhappy, helpless and persecuted.

This is partly why arguments such as mine are met with a common criticism — that making people worry about being overweight will fuel the emotional problems that make the sensitive souls fat in the first place.

But this is not about pointing and laughing at fat people. It’s about not pretending fat is a good thing. It simply isn’t, no matter what unhelpful studies, such as one published at the start of this year, use the imperfect measure of body mass index to show that being heavier makes you live longer.

Besides, more than 60 per cent of UK adults are overweight. I’m prepared to believe that we all have problems. But can more than half of this country really be battling emotional issues that lead them to eat? Or are many just struggling to keep the fridge door shut?

Anne H Putnam, author of Navel Gazing, who regained weight after her bypass, considers herself one of the unfortunate fat and laments “the obvious unfairness of all our [overweight people’s] lives”. She criticises doctors for doing their job and telling her she is too heavy because they are “often impervious to explanations about my history with weight …”, as if her unsuccessful attempts to get thin change the fact that she is big. When she concludes that their view of “healthy” is too rigid we’re supposed to feel encouraged by this woman that we can be fat, but OK with that.

Shriver’s story is about a man, Edison, whose problems have led him to eat and whose weight makes him an object of disdain. But it is also about the necessity of losing that weight. This is not surprising from Shriver — a consciously thin woman who has admitted to consuming nothing but coffee each day until dinner — but I can far more sympathise with this narrative than one that pretends Edison’s size is not the problem.

There is a US-based web community that supports the fat heroism cause. It’s called “Fat!So?”. There is a simple answer to this question: So, you are killing yourself. Don’t take the rest of us with you.

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Jennifer Lawrence — a "fat actress" — refuses to starve herself, while Anne …

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jennifer Lawrence for making the point: You don’t have to go to ludicrous extremes to play a part.

The 22-year-old star of “The Hunger Games” came under some seriously BS criticism in certain circles last spring over whether her Katniss Everdeen was sufficiently emaciated-looking to be convincing. As Manohla Dargis complained in the New York Times, “A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy, meanwhile, duly noted her “lingering baby fat.” 

Now, months later, Lawrence has a gem of a response. For the new issue of Elle, the Oscar nominee says, “In Hollywood, I’m obese. I’m considered a fat actress.” It’s an amazing, depressing and no doubt totally true claim from a woman who appears on the cover in body-hugging white dress, looking anything but plus-size. She adds, “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.”

But hey, thin and underfed is how you get attention in this business. Well, that or enduring the nightmare of gaining weight, a la Renee Zellweger in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” or Charlize Theron in “Monster,” and then losing it and returning to one’s former glorious sylphlike state. Remember when Gwyneth Paltrow packed on 20 pounds for “Country Strong” so she could look like a down-and-out crooner/still-skinnier-than-everybody-else person? Remember how “frustrating” she said it was to have to eat chicken — what a “nightmare” it was? Remember last year, when Jessica Chastain underwent self-described “torture” of gaining 15 pounds for “The Help”?

Yet when an actress goes in the opposite direction for a role, there’s a kind of hushed awe about her achievement. When, in 2010, Natalie Portman played a ballerina in “Black Swan,” she told the Daily Mail her physical transformation “was more difficult than anything I’ve ever experienced before … I was barely eating, I was working 16 hours a day.” In the same story, the Daily Mail described her in the movie as “breathtaking.” And when her co-star Mila Kunis, who went down to 98 pounds for her supporting role, left the movie behind and returned to her usual size, the Hollywood Reporter concern trolled, “One has to wonder what Dior thinks of her weight gain. She and her ‘Black Swan’ co-star Natalie Portman are both brand ambassadors for the couture house.”

And now there’s Anne Hathaway, who followed up the strict regimen required to play Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” with a punishing diet to become the consumptive heroine Fantine in the upcoming big-screen version of “Les Miserables.” In a Vogue cover story, Adam Green describes her Fantine as both “emaciated and radiant,” noting that the cleanse that helped her lose 10 pounds for the early scenes of the film gave her “a gossamer quality.” In contrast, ABC this week unreservedly described Matthew McConaughey, who recently lost 30 pounds to play a man with HIV in “The Dallas Buyer’s Club,” as looking  “shockingly frail.”

A two-week “near starvation diet” of dried oatmeal paste brought Hathaway down another 15 pounds for Fantine’s deathly later scenes, an “obsessive” experience the actress describes as “definitely a little nuts … definitely a break with reality.” Writer Green, meanwhile, marvels that today, “Hair volume and body-fat percentage aside (she lost 25 pounds to play Fantine and remains very thin, though not unhealthy-looking), Hathaway’s life seems fuller than ever.”

Actors of both sexes aren’t going to stop shape-shifting for their parts — and if you’re playing a starving woman, it’s definitely more convincing if you don’t look like you’ve been noshing on grilled cheese sandwiches. But note if you will the dysfunctional ways in which weight gain and weight loss – and whether the gainer or loser is a man or woman – play out in how the media treats its stars. And kudos to performers like Jennifer Lawrence, who recognize that microscope gaze and refuse to go along with the fetishization of emaciation — and recognize the sick message it sends to girls. She may be lined up to reprise Katniss in “Catching Fire,” but there are some hunger games she just won’t play.

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Jennifer Lawrence: ‘Fat’ actress

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Jennifer Lawrence: I’m considered a fat actress in Hollywood

Jennifer Lawrence says she’s considered overweight by Hollywood standards, but she has no interest in starving herself for a role.

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In an interview with Elle magazine, the “Hunger Games” actress conceded she does not fit the Hollywood standard of beauty.

“In Hollywood, I’m obese,” the 22-year-old said. ”I’m considered a fat actress.”

She said she doesn’t crash diet for roles and doesn’t want to send that message to her young fans, CNN reported Friday.

“I eat like a caveman. I’ll be the only actress who doesn’t have anorexia rumors,” Lawrence said.

“I don’t want little girls to be like, ‘Oh, I want to look like [her 'Hunger Games' character] Katniss, so I’m going to skip dinner,” she said. “That’s something I was really conscious of during training [for the movie], when you’re trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong — not thin and underfed.”

Lawrence said her boyfriend, “X-Men” co-star Nicholas Hoult, admires her body as it is.

“He’s my favorite person to be around and makes me laugh harder than anybody,” she said.

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Jennifer Lawrence: ‘In Hollywood, I’m obese’

When The Hunger Games was released in March, several critics had an issue with star Jennifer Lawrence: they thought she didn’t look quite hungry enough.

“A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times. Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere also took note of Lawrence’s size, saying that she “seems too big” for her co-star Josh Hutcherson: “She’s a fairly tall, big-boned lady (I’ve been in a hotel room with her) who’s maybe 5′ 8″, and he seems to be something like 5’7″.” Variety‘s Justin Chang was a bit more oblique with his dig: “Hunger, the one constant in Katniss’ hard-scrabble life, barely even seems to register.”

The craziest thing of all: None of this is shocking to Lawrence herself. “In Hollywood, I’m obese,” the Oscar nominee says in Elle magazine’s December issue. “I’m considered a fat actress. I’m Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach.” (Aw, why you gotta pick on Batman II like that, Jen?)

To her credit, Lawrence takes the criticism in stride. “I’m never going to starve myself for a part,” she tells Elle.  “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.” The Silver Linings Playbook star also sees a silver lining to this weighty situation — “I’ll be the only actress who doesn’t have anorexia rumors.”

Sounds like the odds of staying sane in Hollywood are ever in her favor. Catch the rest of Lawrence’s interview on Nov. 13, when Elle‘s December issue hits newsstands.

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Jennifer Lawrence hits back at fat comments, slams emaciated celebrities

“Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence may be a little curvier than your average Hollywood ingenue, but she’s happy with her physique and says it’s the fat-shaming weight critics who have the problem, not her.

“It’s hilarious, the way I’m supposedly the overweight one [in Hollywood],” Lawrence told the November 2012 issue of Vogue UK. “Like, they got me at the movies yesterday and the [photo] caption read something like, ‘Curvy star cannot wait to dig into tub of popcorn.’ I mean, Come on!”

Amazingly, Jennifer was criticized as too meaty for the role of heroine Katniss Everdeen in the “Hunger Games.” In March 2012, Manohla Dargis of the “New York Times” remarked that Lawrence wasn’t thin enough to convincingly play the part of a starving teen.

Dargis wrote: “A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission.”

The athletic 5-foot-7 Jennifer says it’s these types of comments and its influence on the perpetuation of the size-zero celebrities idealized in pop culture today that foster an unhealthy body image that damages young women’s self-esteem.

“I’m so tired of the lollipops,” says Lawrence, referring to underweight women with gaunt bodies attached to oversized “lollilop” heads. “I’m just a normal girl who likes to eat.”

Jennifer recalls that she and her friends grew up idolizing scary-skinny celebrities because they made headlines for being so thin.

“I remember when I was 13 and it was cool to pretend to have an eating disorder because there were rumors that Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie were anorexic,” Lawrence told Seventeen. “I thought it was crazy.”

Jennifer, who grew up in Louisville, Ky., says it’s important for girls to have positive fitness role models. “I think it’s really important for girls to have people to look up to and to feel good about themselves,” she said. “[I'm] so sick of these young girls with their [crazy] diets.”

Jennifer is currently filming “Catching Fire,” the sequel to the blockbuster hit, “The Hunger Games.”

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Jennifer Lawrence: I Wasn’t Too Fat To Play Katniss In ‘The Hunger Games’

The few comments I heard about her weight were in direct relation to the fact that part of the book centered around the scarcity of food and most people in district 12 were malnourished. I could be wrong, but I never heard anyone call Jennifer “fat,” just that she didn’t look skinny enough to be considered malnourished as Katniss was supposed to be in the book. Obviously, she has a beautiful body and the movie didn’t focus on that aspect of the storyline, so it didn’t matter. If anyone called her fat they need their head examined, but I don’t think that’s what happened. It’s not unreasonable for someone to observe a difference between the book and movie portrayal.

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Jennifer Lawrence Responds: Critics Said She Was Too Fat for ‘Hunger Games …

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From the ridiculous files comes the critique that Jennifer Lawrence was too fat for her role in ‘The Hunger Games.’

Yeah, we know it’s crazy too, but there were critics who noted Jennifer was too curvy to be Katniss, since the character would be starving and emaciated.

Critics can be cruel, for sure, but Jennifer isn’t concerned about their digs on her weight. After all, why should she worry – ‘The Hunger Games’ kicked and continues to kick butt at the box office.

We love that Jennifer represents a more normal body type, plus, in her defense, Katniss is likely to have a little more meat on her bones than other District 12 residents because she’s able to hunt and provide food for her family.

The Chicago Suntimes has an article titled “The ‘fatness’ of Katniss?” that debates the issue, with some insight from Jennifer herself.

Well, the insight comes from a source close to Jennifer, anyway, who spills that she thought it was “hilarious” to be criticized for her weight:

“Jennifer told me, ‘This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal,’” the source shared, noting that Lawrence thought thin body images “are too often adopted by young girls and women – thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.”

Critics need to get a life sometimes, it seems.

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Kirstin Says: Critics Are Nuts! Jennifer Lawrence Was Not ‘Too Fat’ For …

It’s unbelievable to me people are complaining about Jennifer Lawrence’s body size after she did such a remarkable job portraying Katniss Everdeen in ‘The Hunger Games!’ It’s trivial and useless to even point that out!

Some of the country’s most-read critics — including ones from the New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter — have gone on record commenting on Jennifer Lawrence‘s normal-sized figure in The Hunger Games and how she doesn’t fit Katniss Everdeen’s skinny body type. Not only are these comments inappropriate, they are detrimental to any advances the 21-year-old actress has made in helping girls with body dysmorphia!

“A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission,” Manohla Dargis wrote in the Times.

Her sentiment was echoed by Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter, who referred to Jennifer’s “lingering baby fat.”

Although I find it catty to comment on the talented actress’s weight at all, these highly influential writers could have reworded their thoughts and said “although Jennifer didn’t fit the physical description of Suzanne Collins‘s character…” and we would have gotten the point.

Yes, Katniss comes from a poor district. Yes, she is described as painfully thin. No, Jennifer isn’t a rail. But let’s be honest: did it really affect the storytelling in any capacity? No.

A writer on the site BlissTree, Briana Rognlin, was also upset about the Jennifer body controversy and made a point that struck a chord with me. ”When female characters are meant to be ugly, old or fat, we’ll easily ignore discrepancies (because who would want to actually hire an actress who’s any of those things?),” she said. “But if a character is meant to be emaciated or sick, we feel conned if she hasn’t made herself those things in real life.”

People are hyper-focusing on a small detail, which is doing more harm than good. There’s nothing constructive about calling Jennifer “thick” or “too normal” at this point. News flash: she was already cast; the film has already been shot and we’ve all already seen it. It’s not like Lionsgate is going to pick up the phone, call her and demand she drop 20 pounds so she can finally look how Katniss is supposed to in book one. Get over it already.

The best part? Jennifer knows she’s not a runway model and totally owns it. In fact, she embraces it.

“I’m totally normal. You see these 12 and 13 year olds ordering salads with dressing on the side and thinking they need to be on a diet,” she told UK Marie Claire. “I do want the stick-thin trend to end.”

Jennifer, we need more young actresses as level-headed and healthy as you. Keep up the good work.

Yours in “normal” solidarity,

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