The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
I always say I am myself unapologetically.
I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.
We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."
It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
I treat myself occasionally and don't have any guilt or conditions placed on it.
The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'
As long as I'm happy with myself and mentally happy, it doesn't matter what other people think. Everyone's always going to have an opinion, you can't stop that.
I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.
People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.'
I never wanted to be known as a fat comic, just a comic who happens to be fat.
It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't really care anymore what people think about me. I'm just gonna be me.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
I come from a background that, when I win, people try to put me down, and when I lose, people try to put me down. I accept that, and I actually find it kind of funny.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.
