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  • Jennifer Lawrence Bashed For Weight, Acceptance Speeches

    Jennifer Lawrence has become America’s darling in the past couple of years; after starring in “The Hunger Games” and “Silver Linings Playbook” and receiving accolades–and awards–for her work, she’s proven that underneath it all she’s a hilarious girl from Kentucky who still gets starstruck by the people she now rubs elbows with. Her penchant for saying whatever is on her mind has charmed the pants off…well, pretty much everyone, and she’s become the girl that all the guys want and all the girls want to be.

    But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t run into some detractors.

    Lawrence, who was just 16 when she began her acting career, says she’s had to deal with people in the business who put her on blast for her weight, despite the fact that she was young at the time.

    “They brought in pictures of me where I was basically naked, and told me to use them as motivation for my diet,” Lawrence said in a recent interview. “It was just that.”

    One of the worst parts is that some people are shocked that the incident still bothers her now that she’s an Oscar-winner.

    “Yeah. I was a little girl,” she said. “I was hurt. It doesn’t matter what accolades you get…I know it’ll never happen to me again. If anybody even tries to whisper the word ‘diet’, I’m like, ‘You can go f*** yourself.’”

    Unfortunately, the very thing that has made so many love Lawrence–the fact that she doesn’t shy away from her own awkwardness–is a spot of contention for others.

    “[The other person said] Other people are getting up and owning the stage and you sound like a stuttering idiot. Pull it together,’” Lawrence said of the 2013 Oscars. “And I said, ‘I’m not doing it on purpose, I’m uncomfortable…I make awkward jokes and stutter…That was actually a moment when I really wanted it to be special. That was not the time I wanted to be the down-home Girl. I wanted to be graceful.”

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  • Jennifer Aniston “Cheat Day” Means No Dieting

    Jennifer Aniston has had an enviable body for as long as she’s been onscreen, but even she has days where she’s unhappy with certain body parts.

    The 43-year old actress admits she used to be “a lot rounder”, however, and credits yoga for helping to tone her problem areas. Aniston recently attended a book party for her friend Mandy Ingber, who just released “Yogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover.” The pair have known each other for years and have watched the other grow into her own body.

    It’s hard to say is that yoga or is it as we get older we grow into ourselves, but I’ve seen her become so empowered, so grounded in herself, so comfortable in her own skin,” Ingber said. “I’ve definitely watched that process happen and unfold, and I’m grateful that I’ve gotten to be the observer of that.”

    Aniston says she allows herself “cheat days” where the word diet is off-limits, but a weakness for chips and salsa means she has to control her portions.

    “Cheat days for me are usually … it’s either Mexican food … maybe Italian pasta, but I think you always have to do it in moderation,” she says.

    In Hollywood, where a woman’s body will always be judged by someone, many females choose a slender body over being healthy; that isn’t the case for Aniston, who says it’s important to her to be patient with herself…especially when doing yoga.

    “Love the body that you have right now because that’s the perfect body and then be patient with yourself,” she said. “When you first start you might feel like ‘I can’t do this, it hurts,’ and then be patient. Do little bits and you get there. You do, it’s all about being really gentle with yourself and acceptance of what it is at the moment.”