16 Stars Who’ve Opened Up About Dealing with Body Shaming in Hollywood

Celebs like Jennifer Lawrence and Sophie Turner (together with many others) admit that at one level or one other, they have been advised they wanted to vary their pure look with the intention to achieve success. Whether or not it was recommendation from their supervisor, a casting agent and even their very own household, they’ve all confronted some harsh critique.

Fortunately, many have determined to remain true to themselves and show everybody else unsuitable, succeeding regardless of what they’ve been advised.

Learn on to see what these stars needed to say about coping with criticism…

1. Khloe Kardashian

Khloe Kardashian revealed that after she was deemed the “fats sister” by viewers of “Protecting Up With The Kardashians” it was really her household that steered she shed weight.

“, for a very long time I used to be advised, ‘Khloe, you have to shed weight since you’re actually hurting the model’ or this or that. I understood that was coming from my administration facet of my household, nevertheless it does harm and there is a solution to say issues,” Khloe advised People.

2. Henry Cavill

Whereas Henry Cavill was auditioning for the position of James Bond, he needed to stroll out in only a towel and obtained some lower than complimentary commentary from the director. Fortunately, Henry did not let it part him.

“I bear in mind the director, Martin Campbell, saying, ‘Trying slightly chubby there,'” Henry advised Men’s Health journal, including, “I did not know the way to practice or weight-reduction plan. And I am glad Martin mentioned one thing as a result of I reply nicely to fact. It helps me get higher.”

3. Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez could also be identified for her unimaginable physique however early in her profession, Jennifer says executives advised her she wanted to shed weight. Fortunately, she did not let it have an effect on her.

“They did not hassle me in any respect. However I obtained lots of flak for it from folks within the business. They’d say, ‘You need to lose just a few kilos,’ or ‘You need to do that or do this.’ It lastly obtained to the purpose that I used to be like, ‘That is who I’m. I am formed like this.’ Everyone I grew up with seemed like that, and so they have been all stunning to me. I didn’t see something unsuitable with it. I nonetheless do not!” Jennifer advised InStyle.

4. Karlie Kloss

Karlie Kloss has beforehand spoken out about magnificence requirements within the modeling business and says that she’s been referred to as each too huge and too small when going out for jobs.

“I used to be referred to as each too fats and too skinny by a casting agent on the identical day,” Karlie mentioned on the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. However on the finish of the day, she rose above the critique as a result of, “I do not wish to please anybody however myself.”

5. Sophie Turner

Sophie Turner skilled strain to shed weight when her metabolism modified whereas filming “Recreation of Thrones.” Throughout that point she turned to remedy to assist her address the scenario.

“My metabolism all of a sudden determined to fall to the depths of the ocean and I began to get spotty and achieve weight, and all of this was occurring to me on digital camera. Everybody wants a therapist, particularly when persons are always telling you you are not ok and you do not look ok. I feel it is necessary to have somebody to speak to and that can assist you by way of that,” Sophie advised Marie Claire Australia.

6. Sam Claflin

Sam Claflin says he is struggled with physique picture and self-confidence points and whereas he understands it is not “wherever close to as unhealthy as what girls undergo,” he nonetheless feels insecure.

“Particularly when I’ve to take my prime off…I get actually labored as much as the purpose the place I spend hours and hours within the fitness center and never consuming for weeks to attain what I feel they are going for,” Sam advised The Sydney Morning Herald, including, “I bear in mind doing one job after they actually made me pull my shirt up and have been grabbing my fats and going, ‘It is advisable lose a little bit of weight.’ This different time they have been slapping me. I felt like a bit of meat.”

7. Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston as soon as mentioned that early in her profession, her agent beneficial she shed weight and she or he would not suppose she would have gotten her position in “Pals” had she not misplaced the 30 kilos.

“My agent gave it to me straight. The disgusting factor of Hollywood [is] I wasn’t getting plenty of jobs ‘trigger I used to be too heavy,” Jennifer advised Rolling Stone.

8. Ashley Benson

Ashley Benson says that though she’s a measurement two, she’s been advised she must shed weight. Happily, she would not hearken to the criticism and does what makes her really feel finest and is finest for her physique.

“It is come up just a few instances in the previous couple of years, like, ‘You are too fats for this.’ And I am simply sitting right here like, ‘Wait, what? Would you like a skeleton?’…I get advised on a regular basis to shed weight. I obtained {that a} month in the past. It is simply bizarre. With my stuff just lately, it has been, ‘You must be pores and skin and bones otherwise you’re not getting it,'” Ashley advised Health.

She added, “There was some extent the place it was attending to the place a measurement 2 was nice. I am a measurement 2, however I feel {that a} measurement 4 is wholesome. I feel that every one of those sizes are wholesome…I really feel good. I do not wish to lose 20 kilos, as a result of I need not.”

9. Jennifer Lawrence

Early in her profession, Jennifer Lawrence says she had a humiliating expertise after being advised she wanted “to lose 15 kilos in two weeks” for a component in a movie.

“Throughout this time a feminine producer had me do a nude line-up with about 5 girls who have been a lot, a lot, thinner than me. We’re stood side-by-side with solely tape on masking our privates. After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the feminine producer advised me I ought to use the bare images of myself as inspiration for my weight-reduction plan,” Jennifer mentioned throughout Elle’s Women in Hollywood occasion.

10. Ashley Graham

Ashley Graham was advised to shed weight as a plus measurement mannequin as a result of within the business, in case you’re in the midst of the vary of sizes, you are likely to get extra work.

“I had companies telling me that I needed to shed weight. I had one which waved cash in my face and mentioned, ‘If you happen to lose extra ‘lb’s’ – kilos – you may make much more of this,’ and he was waving $20 payments in my face. That wasn’t even a motivator for me to shed weight…So he was attempting to encourage me to shed weight nevertheless it did not work, as a result of I used to be that particular person the place in case you advised me to go on a weight-reduction plan and shed weight, I am simply going to realize weight,” Ashley advised People.

11. Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson says she felt extra strain from folks to shed weight when she was thinner and was regularly in comparison with different stars.

“I felt extra strain from folks really once I was skinny, once I was actually skinny and never tremendous wholesome as a result of I simply was worn out. It was extra of magazines shoved in entrance of you and, ‘That is what you are competing with and we have got to compete with it.’ I am unable to compete with that. There can be a chick bare on the duvet. I am not joking, actually bare,” Kelly advised Glamour UK.

She added, “I fought extra once I was thinner than I do now, as a result of now I simply stroll in and I simply take a look at them like, ‘I dare you to say one thing. I am completely satisfied in my life. I am going to work on me in my time!'”

12. Amber Tamblyn

When Amber Tamblyn was 21 and having fun with the success of “Sisterhood of the Touring Pants 2,” she says her agent inspired her to shed weight if she needed to progress her profession.

“I feel at that time I used to be 128 kilos and I am 5’7. I bear in mind my agent saying to me — and she or he was a girl — ‘You will have an actual selection right here. You’ll be able to both be Nicole Kidman otherwise you generally is a character actress.’ And at the moment, I used to be like 21 years outdated, so in case you take a look at that and use that for example and picture that for over 20 years, types of that from if you’re a toddler to all the best way up, it does one thing to you,” Amber advised The New York Times.

13. David Harbour

David Harbour as soon as auditioned to play The Blob in a “Wolverine” flick however ended up getting some well being recommendation from the director! In the course of the audition, David lifted up his shirt to indicate off his “blob” of a abdomen and the director really obtained involved about his weight.

“He was like, ‘David, look, you are great, we actually suppose you are only a nice actor, we’re simply involved…we’re actually involved.’ I used to be like, ‘Why, what’s your concern? I am good to go. I am obtainable, let’s do that!’ They usually have been like, ‘no, it’s simply, you lifted up your shirt and we noticed the…we’re just a bit apprehensive about your well being.’ I used to be like, ‘Wait a minute, dude, pause for one second. You’re telling me I am too fats to play The Blob?'” David defined to The Wrap.

14. Richard Madden

Richard Madden has been on jobs the place he has had his fats rolls pinched and even as soon as wore a fancy dress so restrictive that it felt like a corset. And due to that, he is aware of he and different actors are portraying a “very unrealistic physique picture.”

“I discover myself with actor associates – after we have carried out a sort of barely consuming, working-out-twice-a-day, no-carbing factor for these scenes – one another going: ‘We’re simply feeding this similar shit that we’re towards.’ I’ve carried out quite a few jobs the place you are advised to shed weight and get to the fitness center. It would not simply occur to girls, it occurs to males on a regular basis as nicely,” Richard advised British Vogue.

15. Amy Schumer

Though Amy Schumer had inventive management over her movie “Trainwreck,” she was advised she needed to shed weight for the lead position.

“It was defined to me earlier than I did that film that in case you weigh over 140 kilos as a girl in Hollywood, in case you’re on the display it should harm folks’s eyes. So I misplaced some weight to do this, however by no means once more,” Amy mentioned on “The Jonathan Ross Show.”

16. Carrie Fisher

Even legendary actress Carrie Fisher mentioned she felt strain to shed weight earlier than interesting in “Star Wars: The Power Awakens.”

“They do not wish to rent all of me – solely about three-quarters! Nothing modifications. It is an appearance-driven factor. I am in a enterprise the place the one factor that issues is weight and look. That’s so tousled. They may as nicely say get youthful, as a result of that is how simple it’s,” she advised Good Housekeeping UK.