Oscar Winner Natalie Portman Recalls Being Sexualized At The Age of 13

Oscar Winner Natalie Portman Recalls Being Sexualized At The Age of 13

Natalie Portman explain how she was sexualized at the age of 13 that mentioned my breast buds.

In a recent interview, an Israeli-born American actress, Oscar winner, Natalie Portman, 41, told that

“I think, in that time, it was very normal, Some of it was the types of roles that were being written and some of it was the way journalists felt entitled to write about it.”

“I remember reading a review of myself when I was about 13 that mentioned my breast buds,” 

Oscar Winner Natalie Portman Recalls Being Sexualized At The Age of 13

“put on all these defenses," 

“It was like, I’m not going to be seen that way, because it felt like a vulnerable position and also a less respectable position, in some way, to be characterized like that,” 

It’s pretty unusual and wonderful to be tasked with getting bigger as a woman, Most of the body transformations we’re asked to make are to be as small as possible and there’s an emotional and sociological correlate to that.”

“For someone to say, ‘Let’s see how much strength you can have,’ is a completely different psychological space to inhabit, It was an incredible point in my life to say, ‘You’re going to be the fittest, strongest version of yourself.’"

“I trained really seriously for Black Swan but of course it was in the opposite direction, It was to get as small as possible. It was also a lot of strength and a lot of technique and of course learning choreography, which is very similar to learning stunt choreography. But certainly I’ve [never been in the gym] lifting 20 pound weights to try and bulk up.”