Jennifer Lawrence has spoken out about her hacked nude photos for the first time, referring to the scandal as “a sex crime.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence expressed anger that the pictures, which were released as part of a large hack of celebrity nude photos on August 31, were leaked.
“It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting,” she said.
“The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these websites are responsible.”
Lawrence added that her fame did not negate her right to privacy and control over her body.
“Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this,” she told the magazine.
“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.”
Lawrence also had a message for celebrity news sites who spread the photos.
“You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living,” she said. “You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice.”
Well-spoken, J-Law.
Read the Mamamia’s Team’s original opinion post on the nude photo scandal here.
Read Kate Leaver’s opinion post on why the hack was a crime against women here.
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What I find as offensive as someone stealing these photos and publishing them is that they did not choose any men. It is a clear display of how people see "women" as a commodity - blood boiling...
I don't agree with that conclusion.
These are straight men doing the hacking, why would they be interested in looking at naked men?
Men are more motivated by nude women than vice versa. Therefore more motivated to seek such images out, where women aren't sufficiently.
Less women are interested in IT than men, particularly the hacking side of it. Men got the requisite skills.
Women are more likely to possess a full body naked pic of themselves, whereas seems to me men more often just photograph their tackle and/or torso or don't do it at all. I'd also hazard a guess that less men include their face in a nude.
I also think that the VF cover shot is slightly at odds with that which JL is trying to say about the sanctity of her body. I don't disgaree with her, that the public are not entitled to steal and view naked pics of celebrities, but appearing to be naked with pushed up boobs on the cover of a well-circulated magazine dilutes her point.
While I agree with most of what you said, I disagree with the last paragraph. I think that those photos demonstrate that she is in charge of what she puts out into the open - it highlights that there is a difference between the photos that she's allowing to be put in a magazine, and the photos that were illegally leaked.
I think you're missing the point, she gave her ok for the magazine to publish these photos. Whereas the leaked photos were not consented too. HUGE difference!!
I also mostly agree. Particularly on it being her choice, but doing a semi-naked cover on the front of the mag in which you say how violated you are that fully naked pics got distributed?
wow, this has been up for an hour and nobody has said yet that people who take nude photos are idiots. i'm impressed!
People who put naked pictures of themselves on any electronic device from which they can be hacked are idiots. OK?
Why are we not talking about the hackers who have done the wrong thing - are they not the idiots???????????????
Guest and Singki - you are both blaming the victim - it's like saying there have been robberies in a certain street. You walk down that street and are robbed - is it your fault for walking down that street? They would have access to men's photos too and would be able to distribute - this conversation is not about what they like to look at.
I don't trust technology myself however have been told that the cloud was very safe, only you can access, etc etc Large corporate companies use it. Being a little cynical I have never used it.
Do you not think that the real victims here had no idea that someone could access there private data. If you broke into someone's home and took their pictures and distributed them you would be in jail now. It is no the victims fault that the law has not kept up with the fast moving technology sector.
What makes me really sad with all this information available there are still people like yourselves who choose to be ignorant and blame the victim.
Shame on victim blamers, shame on you