Jennifer Lawrence is known for speaking candidly, and in her interview for Harper’s Bazaar‘s May issue, she gets honest about body image and our distorted perception of what’s “normal.”
“I would like us to make a new normal body type,” Lawrence said. “Everybody says [to me], ‘We love that there is somebody with a normal body!’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t feel like I have a normal body.’ I do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person. I think we’ve gotten so used to underweight that when you are a normal weight it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, she’s curvy.’ Which is crazy.”
Read more: ‘How I Finally Learned to Love My Body’
Lawrence has a point: According to the CDC, the average weight of women 20 or older in America is about 165 pounds.
Lawrence says that she’s tired of feeling “like the fattest one” because everyone else in the movie industry is thinner than she is.
More Must-Reads from TIME
- How Canada Fell Out of Love With Trudeau
- Trump Is Treating the Globe Like a Monopoly Board
- Bad Bunny On Heartbreak and New Album
- See Photos of Devastating Palisades Fire in California
- 10 Boundaries Therapists Want You to Set in the New Year
- The Motivational Trick That Makes You Exercise Harder
- Nicole Kidman Is a Pure Pleasure to Watch in Babygirl
- Column: Jimmy Carter’s Global Legacy Was Moral Clarity
Contact us at letters@time.com