Jennifer Lawrence Interview: Actress Reveals 'Irrational' Fear Of Zika Virus & Private Parts [VIDEO]
Jennifer Lawrence has a very specific fear, as she explained in her new Vanity Fair profile.
Lawrence was asked various questions in a rapid fire format during her interview with Vanity Fair, including her greatest irrational fear in life. The actress had a unique and relatively bizarre answer, and it had to do with her private parts feeling like a sponge.
"My biggest irrational, hopefully, fear is that the Zika virus is going to be the solution to overpopulation," she said. "I don't know, if you've ever read the Kurt Vonnegut short story ['Welcome to the Monkey House', presumably] where everyone has to take these pills that make your private parts feel like wet sponges and, then nobody can have sex and no one can procreate. And so by the time I'm older, and I'm like, 'I think I want to be a mother,' they're like, 'You can't. Your private part feels like a sponge.'"
The Zika virus has been a worldwide concern over the past year as it has continued to spread from country to country. The virus has been shown to cause birth defects for the children of pregnant women who contract it.
Meanwhile, Lawrence has been more outspoken over the past few years now that she's had years of being in the Hollywood spotlight. The actress fully admitted that something changed in her after she turned 25, realizing that she did not need to be afraid to voice her opinion anymore.
"I feel like something really clicked when I was 25," Lawrence said in the Vanity Fair interview. "It's not as scary to say what you mean anymore. Remember how scary that used to be? Like 'What if they think I'm mad at them?' Now it's like 'They better think I'm mad!' "
Lawrence openly advocated for gender pay equality in an essay written for Lena Dunham's newsletter, Lenny, after the Sony hackings revealed how she and her fellow actresses were paid for American Hustle compared to their male co-stars.
"If I'm honest with myself, I would be lying if I didn't say there was an element of wanting to be liked that influenced my decision to close the deal without a real fight," she admitted. "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 didn't worry about being 'difficult' or 'spoiled.' This could be a young-person thing. It could be a personality thing. I'm sure it's both. But this is an element of my personality that I've been working against for years, and based on the statistics, I don't think I'm the only woman with this issue."
