Thank goodness there are so many critics diligently debating appropriate female body type. I was beginning to think that Hollywood was ignoring this issue in their casting!*

*ample sarcasm

I….what? Never mind her talent, all we care about is that she’s bigger than a size zero! asnslkflnksfknsdflknsdfklnsdfklnsfj;dgj

If the story was set right after her dad died and they were starving to death, I might agree. But when it starts she’d been hunting for years and Prim had her goat and they’d been able to trade their poaches for bread. She wasn’t exactly starving to death there, she was doing pretty well. I think Jennifer Lawernce is perfect the way she is. 

i am enraged that people are saying jennifer lawrence is, erm, “chubby”. WHAT. how is that even possible. 

nevermind the fact that Katniss’ family is probably on the more well-fed end of the spectrum, at least compared to those who don’t have a sister who goes hunting so they can eat. and let’s not get started on how fat people can’t be starving. ugh. sometimes people should shut up and enjoy their damn movie.

i am enraged that people are saying jennifer lawrence is, erm, “chubby”. WHAT. how is that even possible. 

nevermind the fact that Katniss’ family is probably on the more well-fed end of the spectrum, at least compared to those who don’t have a sister who goes hunting so they can eat. and let’s not get started on how fat people can’t be starving. ugh. sometimes people should shut up and enjoy their damn movie.

I think that Jennifer Lawrence is absolutely gorgeous and I hope she doesn’t give in to pressure from other people who say she’s too big. With that being said, looking at her in that movie, I didn’t believe that she’d ever struggled with nourishment. Even before her makeover, her hair was beautiful and her skin was glowing. I disagree with the statement that Katniss “was doing pretty well.” It’s important to remember that even with her hunting, her family never had an overabundance of food – let alone food with proper nutrients and vitamins.  That’s kinda one of the points of the book. If she’s just barely getting by, how are the families who obey all the laws supposed to survive?

I think the critics that are saying she doesn’t look malnourished have a point. She doesn’t. (And Katniss would have.) She looks gorgeous and very healthy – unlike so many other actresses these days.

Considering all that, the question becomes: would a movie portraying the terrible lives of people starved into submission benefit by forcing their lead actress to starve herself? I think anyone who would do that didn’t learn anything from the story.

This is really so uncomfortable.  And what makes it even more awkward is that these are the same people who, when the same famous folks either cave to the pressure of ridiculous standards or put in extra time at the gym cry anorexia.  You can’t have it both ways, and I really hope these folks would stop trying.
I really am so grateful that someone as talented and smart (from what I’ve gathered in interviews) is getting big roles like this.

It’s a damn movie people. We read the booked and loved it. It’s just meant to be entertaining for 2 and a half hours, not be an exact copy of the book. That’s impossible. I’d rather watch Jennifer do a great job portraying a mentally and physically strong young women than a dull skinned, dirty anorexic ‘actress’ just look the part.

Get the fuck over it. Stick to books if this is too hard to wrap your brains around.

Jennifer Lawrence looks fine the way she is…  No revisions, changes or upgrades necessary.

I was actually happy that she, unlike many badass female heroines, actually looked like she was strong enough to draw a bow.

I hate it when the media makes it seem like any woman who is not a size two is “big boned.” Yes Katniss didn’t have the best diet  and would look pretty skinny, however Jennifer Lawerence isn’t even really chubby, she’s still pretty thin, just not extremely thin. What’s ridiclous about the whole thing is that while critics are quick to point out how Lawerence is  too ”big boned” to play an impoverished teen, they don’t say that Liam Hensworth looks much too healthy and bulky, even though his character is also an impoverished teen.
Jennifer Lawerence is a talented actress and I hope that one day people will focus on that instead of just her looks.

So.. they should solely hirer actors and actresses for parts based off of looks and give no credibility to their acting skills? The actress is a healthy woman who’s playing a part.. she is not a startving teen.. therefore, will not look like a startving teen.. only a starving teen would look like one. Are they saying they wanted a starving teenager to play the part or just have Jennifer Lawrence starve herself to look ‘perfect’ for the part?

She is absolutely gorgeous her size is perfect (at least to me). I am glad that she doesn’t exactly fit the extremely malnourished, starved into submission citizen of the 12th district. Besides, Katniss is renowned for her hunting skills…she shouldn’t be too malnourished, right?

Absolutely.  

She looks to be of average size, before average became “one hamburger away from not being able to leave your house without the assistance of a forklift.” Frankly I’m more concerned about Angelina Jolie and her skeleton-like legs. No grown woman looks like that unless she has an eating disorder, as in not eating a damn thing.  Yet, people are saying Jennifer Lawrence is “chubby”?  Please.

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I think we stone the Writer.. Jen Law is the perfect Actress for this part.. bravo to the selection team!!

She plays the role perfectly. If they had wanted to make her look malnourished, they could have used all sort of tricks, like make up, for instance. They didn’t judge she needed it. I don’t see where she is big-boned or fat.

So glad that the comments here are supportive. I agree. She’s a beautiful, talented woman and I’m glad to see someone like her getting lots of roles. She’s not remotely “chubby”. Women are criticized for their size regardless of what it is anymore. She’s happy with who she is and that is what is truly admirable. 

So true. She also had great form! She was apparently coached by Khatuna Lorig, an Olympian archer. Loved seeing that done so faithfully in the film, and with ‘real’ bows (not those compound abominations)!

since when does a diet of hunted gamemeat equate to the softness Lawrence is sporting?! Stop making pathetic or non-excuses, ya transparent Hollywood-thin spited chub-apologists! 

Okay, about Lawrence being a bit taller than Hutcherson- do they honestly think Katniss would care? I’m pretty sure Peeta’s height is the least of her worries. Christ.

Ms. Lawrence was perfect in and for the role. She was totally believable. Good job, well done.

Talking about the character she played, Katniss, not the real-life actress – from the book, I got the impression they really were starving, and it was a day-to-day thing if she could find food or not. I feel like the makeup & wardrobe people didn’t even try to make her look hungry, much less emaciated. In the book it seemed a real dire situation, in the movie it was more like, “Oh, I hunt because I want more than the healthy & nutritious government rations I seem to be getting.” My hubs was so confused why I’d painted this picture of poverty, it seemed more like kids go to work instead of school in the movie rather than poverty & desperation.

Maybe Collins didn’t have the control of the film adaptation she thought she would; maybe they didn’t want to make a “it could be this much worse” movie coming off a real-life recession; maybe I’m the only one who thought Katniss was fighting to stay alive in District 12 as well as the Capitol. Eh. Just not the effect I thought it’d be.

I was dissapointed in the casting choice, but It didn’t stop me from liking the movie.