Jennifer Lawrence Shouldn’t Laugh Off Her Nude Photo Hack

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The public might expect Jennifer Lawrence to be her usual charming, funny self in the wake of a nude photo scandal. Here’s why she doesn’t have to.Jennifer Lawrence has long been praised for her authenticity in a Hollywood elite full of all-too-carefully curated personalities.

At the time of Lawrence’s 2013 Oscar win for Silver Linings Playbook, Ann Friedman of New York Magazine called her “self-effacing and funny,” praising her for joking about “how many shots she’s had” and “about sucking in her stomach on the red carpet.” Vulture, too, noticed her “effortless, self-deprecating charm.” And, after a string of increasingly endearing interviews on Oscar night, Lawrence handily seized the title of America’s Sweetheart and ran with it. This year, she topped both Forbes’ list of most powerful actresses and FHM’s list of the sexiest women in the world.

But Lawrence isn’t joking around anymore, nor should she be. On Sunday, an unidentified 4Chan user leaked a set of what he or she purports to be nude photographs of several female celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Some of the stars, like Justice, are asserting that the photos of them are fake but others, like Lawrence and Winstead, appear to be deeply troubled by the leak in a way that would suggest their authenticity. Winstead took to Twitter to express herdisappointment and her feelings of violation. And a representative for Jennifer Lawrence dubbed the leak “a flagrant violation of privacy,” promising that the authorities “will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.”

In the aftermath of this theft and the subsequent online leak, Jennifer Lawrence is receiving conflicting messages on social media about how she should respond to the widespread distribution of the photos. Predictably, several people are blaming the leak on Lawrence herself for taking the photos in the first place—instead of blaming the hacker who stole the photos and the 4Chan user who leaked them to the world.

Source : thedailybeast