Los Angeles Oct 17 (IANS) Actress Jennifer Lawrence has revealed she was "degraded and humiliated" by a female Hollywood executive who forced her to lose weight and take part in a naked line-up for a film role.
Lawrence said she was asked to go on a crash diet reports dailymail.co.uk.
"When I was much younger and starting out I was told by producers of a film to lose 15 pounds in two weeks. Super easy " Lawrence told ELLE s Women magazine.
"During this time a female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much much thinner than me. We are stood side-by-side with only tape on covering our privates.
"After that degrading and humiliating line-up the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet " she added.
She tried to stand up for herself and told another producer she thought the weight loss demands were not appropriate.
"He (other producer) said he didn t know why everyone thought I was so fat he thought I was ‘perfectly f******e . I let myself be treated a certain way because I felt I had to for my career " she said.
Lawrence s comment comes in the wake of a list of revelations by Hollywood s women brigade on their experience of sexual assault by producer Harvey Weinstein.
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