Jennifer Lawrence has revealed that being a celebrity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in her latest interview with Empire magazine, she explained how she can relate to the Hunger Games heroine, Katniss Everdeen.

It’s something people can spend a lifetime chasing, but for Jennifer Lawrence, fame has come at a high price: her morning cup of coffee.

In an interview with Empire magazine, the 23-year-old actress admitted that it’s the small things like visiting a coffee shop with her friends that she misses the most now she is an international celebrity. “My personal life is now ruined.”

She explained: “I’ve had to create a new one and get used to this new life. It’s hard and it takes time, but I’m sure I will get it.I’m just mourning my old life. I miss that. I don’t want to forget what it’s like going to a coffee shop and people looking at me like a normal person. A part of me can’t get used to it and it makes me sad.”

Ms Lawrence meteoric rise to stardom is largely due to her Oscar winning performance on the indie flick Silver Linings Playbook, co-starring Hollywood hottie Bradley Cooper. However, arguably, Jen has found most of her fans through the hugely popular Hunger Games trilogy. Her portrayal as Katniss Everdeen, a feisty character who is equally thrust into the limelight, has made her recognisable to millions of teenage fans worldwide.

The beautiful actress has described the experience as somewhat cathartic as she explained to Empire: “It’s hard to say you identify with someone who’s facing life and death and war, it’s not like, ‘Oh my God that’s, like, totally how I feel.'”

“But there is the connection in that she doesn’t feel like just part of the town anymore,” she continued, “Now everyone treats her as a celebrity…Whereas she still feels like she’s part of them.”

So with all the fame and fortune in the world, how does this young starlet remain so grounded? Luckily, Jennifer has sensible parents behind her. She told Fabulous magazine: “My family is not the kind of family that would ever let me turn into an a***h**e or anything like that, so I am fortunate to have them,”

We never spot Jen falling out of clubs at 3am, something she also attributes to keeping her humble personality, as Lawrence added that she is only friends with people “who know me, like my close friends who I have known forever.”

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