14 DAY TRIAL // Jennifer Lawrence is giving fans more reasons to love her by the day. After showing the world how cool and completely un-Hollywood she is on various occasions, she’s now opening up about a painful chapter in her life: being bullied in school.
However, this isn’t a “woe is me” type of story and anyone who knows even very little about Jennifer knows not to expect it.
Speaking with The Sun, the Oscar-winning actress reveals she was constantly bullied as a teen and even had to change schools to get over it. Eventually, though, she found the strength to stand up to her bullies.
“I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right, although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn’t invited to,” she says.
“But that was fine, I just hocked a loogie on them and threw them in the trash can,” Jennifer adds of how she dealt with the situation.
Being bullied is nothing to make fun of and Jennifer knows that. Now, she also knows that you can’t let the bullies dictate your self-worth.
“Don’t worry about the [B-word]s — that could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life,” she muses.
In the same interview, the actress talks about being considered one of the most beautiful and talented actresses of today (she insists she’s neither, only doing her best with the acting thing), fashion, the fame game and being a celebrity, her love of food and trying to make it in an industry built on stereotypes.
“It’s hard for a young woman because typically the roles you’re offered are beautiful and [mean], ugly and nice or pretty and stupid. I’ve been lucky to stay away from that. I never play characters that are like me because I’m a boring person. I wouldn’t want to see me in a movie,” Lawrence says.
In November, Jennifer will return to the big screen as no-nonsense Katniss in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”