--- title: Jennifer Lawrence Wants to Redefine the “Normal” Body-Type description: 'I think we've gotten so used to underweight,' the actress says. canonical: https://time.com/4286464/jennifer-lawrence-body-type/ author: Maggie Parker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-08T14:05:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:12.555Z og:title: Why Jennifer Lawrence Wants to Redefine What a 'Normal' Body Type Is og:description: 'We've gotten so used to underweight' og:url: https://time.com/4286464/jennifer-lawrence-body-type/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt657ab27ec46386e5/69888e442dce014f8d9e88d2/jennifer-lawrence-body-types.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3486 og:image:height: 1961 og:image:alt: 88th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Jennifer Lawrence Wants to Redefine What a 'Normal' Body Type Is twitter:description: 'We've gotten so used to underweight' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt657ab27ec46386e5/69888e442dce014f8d9e88d2/jennifer-lawrence-body-types.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Jennifer Lawrence Wants to Redefine What a 'Normal' Body Type Is > Sponsored content. 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Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Maggie Parker](https://time.com/author/maggie-parker/) ## Maggie Parker Apr 8, 2016 2:05 PM UTC Jennifer Lawrence is known for speaking candidly, and in [her interview for _Harper’s Bazaar_‘s May issue](http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a14989/jennifer-lawrence-interview-news/), 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’_](http://motto.time.com/4214574/learned-to-love-my-body/) Lawrence has a point: [According to the CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr%5F11/sr11%5F252.pdf), the average weight of women 20 or older in America is about 165 pounds. 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