The actress Jennifer Lawrence is getting, somewhat fairly, a reputation for being outspoken amongst her Hollywood peers. This trend was established back in 2013, when she told Harper’s Bazaar UK, “If anybody even tries to whisper the word ‘diet,’ I’m like, ‘You can go f– yourself.’” In 2012 she told Elle, “In Hollywood, I’m obese. I’m considered a fat actress.” More recently, on two occasions, she’s spoken out on bodily ownership and the wage gap: issues that affect not just Hollywood stars, but all women. In the November 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, Lawrence gave an exclusive interview, her first since a large collection of her private nude photographs (along with those of many, many other celebrities, mostly female) were stolen by a hacker and leaked to the anonymous image board AnonIB and subsequently to its larger cousins 4chan and Reddit. They were eventually linked to by several news websites, including Gawker and, for a short time, Jezebel. Vanity Fair quoted Lawrence about the event, known on the internet as “the fappening”: “It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime… these Web sites are responsible…” Lawrence’s most widely reproduced quote from the interview read: “Anybody who looked at… Read full this story
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