If Jennifer Lawrence wants the world to see her topless, it’ll be on her terms. Posing shirtless for fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, the 24-year-old actress covers Vanity Fair’s November issue. In the profile, Lawrence breaks her silence about having dozens of nude pictures stolen and distributed online.
“I was just so afraid,” she says. “I didn’t know how this would affect my career.”
The actress, who has always been guarded about her private life, was shocked when the photo leaked. “Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this. It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world,” she opines.
Lawrence was tempted to write a statement in August, but reconsidered. “Every single thing that I tried to write made me cry or get angry. I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship [with Nicholas Hoult] for four years,” she recalls. “It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.”
The actress, who is currently dating Coldplay’s Chris Martin, wants to clarify something about the invasion of privacy: “It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting,” she says.
“The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these websites are responsible,” she continues. “Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.”
The F.B.I. is currently investigating the photo hacking, and attorney Martin Singer is representing 12 unnamed “actresses, models and athletes” whose private photos were stolen and published online. IN addition to threatening a $100 million lawsuit, Singer alleged that Google did not act “expeditiously and responsibly” to remove the images from its search results. Singer also claimed that “pervert predators” had stolen the pictures from his clients. Google later responded, saying, “We’ve removed tens of thousands of pictures, within hours of the requests being made, and we have closed hundreds of accounts…The Internet is used for many good things. Stealing people’s private photos is not one of them.”