Jennifer Lawrence is Here to Normalize Cellulite

Movies, magazines, and social media would love to convince us otherwise, but cellulite? A totally normal thing.

No, it's not just you: Even the women with bodies you look at and think "holy sh*t, how is everything so smooth!?" have stretch marks and dimples — yes, even gorgeous A-listers like Jennifer Lawrence. It turns out, lighting, angles, and editing can really affect how things look in media.

And now, at the Oscar winner's request, we're about to get a look at that cellulite on the big screen. 

It stands to reason: Lawrence's most recent role is visceral in the extreme. In Die My Love, she plays a mother who is dealing with postpartum depression, or perhaps postpartum psychosis, according to reports. And when speaking about the role at a special screening of the movie via Vulture, Lawrence opened up about her refreshing approach to the way the film presented her body.

“I don’t care about nudity. I’m not sensitive about it,” Lawrence says. “I remember, like, them sending over a close-up of cellulite and being like, ‘Do you want us to touch this up?’ And I was like, ‘No. That’s an ass.'”

And there we go: That's the normalization of cellulite we need. 

Lawrence also speaks to how pregnancy changed her relationship to her body. “ I think being pregnant took a lot of, like, vanity anxiety away. Before [I filmed the movie] No Hard Feelings, I was dieting and not eating carbs and working out. I was pregnant [for Die My Love]. Like, what was I gonna do? Not eat?,” she shares.

Die My Love promises to really go there, tackling postpartum mood disorders in a way that seems revolutionary. And Lawrence’s attitude towards the way she is allowing her body to be shown in this film? Well, that feels a little bit revolutionary too.

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