Celebrities who hate being famous: The cruel price of fame
Jennifer Lawrence skyrocketed into mega stardom after her starring role in The Hunger Games in 2012.
But the mother-of-one felt the price of fame after becoming the victim of trolling, nude leaks and paparazzi invasion.
At the age of 23 in 2013, Lawrence first spoke openly about the lack of privacy she was afforded simply for being a known celebrity.
“If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action,” Lawrence told Vogue.
“But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma’am, there’s nothing we can do. It makes no sense.”
After stepping back from Hollywood and laying low for several years, Lawrence re-emerged into the spotlight with an emotional interview with Vanity Fair in 2021 about how difficult the last decade had been.
“I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right,” she recalled.
“If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’… I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life.”