Jennifer Lawrence aims to promote 'new-normal' body type

NEW YORK, April 8 (UPI) -- Jennifer Lawrence says claims she has a "normal" body are "crazy," due to her hearty exercise routines and lifestyle.

Speaking with Harper's Bazaar magazine, the X-Men: Apocalypse actress said she would like to promote a "new-normal" body type that celebrates a person's natural weight.

"I would like us to make a new-normal body type," the 25-year-old Oscar-winner said. "Everybody says, 'We love that there's somebody with a normal body!' And I'm like, 'I don't feel like I have a normal body.' I do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person."

Lawrence explained the general public may have become so accustomed to seeing underweight celebrities "that when you are a normal weight it's like, 'Oh, my God, she's curvy.' Which is crazy."

During the interview, Lawrence also touched on a more political stance she took against unequal pay in Hollywood.

Last year, the star wrote an essay published in Lena Dunham's newsletter, the Lenny Letter, calling out Hollywood for unfair payouts between men and women. She wrote, "I didn't want to seem 'difficult' or 'spoiled.' At the time, that seemed like a fine idea, until I saw the payroll on the Internet and realized every man I was working with definitely did not worry about being 'difficult' or 'spoiled...Are we socially conditioned to behave this way?"

Of the headlines and conversation the essay prompted after its release, Lawrence told Harper's she didn't expect it.

"I had no idea it was going to blow up like that," she said. "And I obviously only absorbed the negative. I didn't pay any attention to the positive feedback. My parents got really upset. They do not like me speaking out about anything political because it's hard to see your kid take criticism. But, really, people who criticized it are people who think women should not be paid the same as men. So I don't really care what those people think."