There are so many articles about how she doesn't want to diet for any role she might get, or she embraces her shape, and doesn't understand why some people would even refer to her as fat. And I'm with her on that. How is her curvy body considered fat? She has the perfect hour glass shape.. and is confident about it.
For me, she has been the biggest motivator for my figure. I've always been insecure about having curves because no celebrity had them (or showed them off) and I grew up thinking that size 0 was perfect. If you weren't super skinny, you were fat and would probably never meet a boy because boys don't like girls that have a figure.
But not only is she confident about her weight unlike most people in Hollywood, she doesn't care what anyone thinks about her. Most female celebrities go off of the idea that they need to be super feminine, always a male companion, and seem to be very soft spoken - always answering interview questions in the same way, never showing much outgoing personalities, etc.
Jennifer Lawrence just doesn't seem to care. She blatantly speaks her mind about anything and everything, she embraces the embarrassing moments... she is essentially the polar opposite of the cliche female in Hollywood. It seems like girls growing up in 2000's don't know how to do this. When I was in middle school and the start of high school it seemed like no one knew how to be themselves. But now having younger siblings in middle school it seems that its starting to be the norm to be yourself. There is even a term to be "basic" meaning you do what everyone else is doing and don't act like yourself.... Hopefully this will continue and more people will embrace who they are.
Of course there are others, but Jennifer Lawrence being one of the youngest helps younger girls (and guys) have a stronger connection with her. She is the perfect role model and its a shame that there aren't more people in the public eye like her.
I love hearing about women who are good role models in Hollywood for girls so your blog was interesting for me. I think that her role as Katniss in The Hunger Games and as Mystique in The X-Men movies give young girls, like my own daughters, good strong role models of women unwilling to bend to a false society. As an actress her rational voice as unwilling to participate becoming something she isn't for everyone else. It was also interesting to read about the Basic movement- very interesting and something very supporting!
ReplyDeleteI agree, I think Jennifer Lawrence is very important to some of the progression we have seen recently in popular media regarding female representations. Her choice to be in the Hunger Games advanced the influence of an already independent, dominant female character through her voice in the media on preparing for the film. By refusing to compromise her health to resemble Katniss Everdeen more, she criticized a Hollywood norm that most actors and figures in the industry defend as a loyalty or passion for the art of acting. Any different mainstream actress that was considered for the role (like Emma Roberts) could have definitely reduced the Hunger Games' wild popularity because the values Jennifer Lawrence promotes to women have been so ground-breaking and continue to receive a lot of attention.
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