Why Jennifer Lawrence Shops at IKEA
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ABC/Fred Lee(NEW YORK) — When you’re Jennifer Lawrence, you can shop anywhere.
But the Hunger Games star, 24, takes a decidedly low-key approach to furnishing her new $7 million, five-bedroom home in Beverly Hills. Appalled at the cost of designer couches, Lawrence told The Telegraph, “I bought one from IKEA. It doesn’t matter how much money I make, unfairness in prices really fires me up. Like shopping in L.A and a T-shirt costs $150.”
The Oscar winner explained, “I have perspective because I didn’t grow up in this business. I’m not from Hollywood, I’m from Kentucky. I didn’t become successful until a few years ago and I’m very aware of what the real world is and how much a couch costs.”
At the same time, Lawrence acknowledges that the world she now lives in as an A-list movie star is very different than her Louisville upbringing.
“A lot of anxiety comes from something as simple as me going to the grocery store because I don’t know what could happen, and I have nightmares all the time that I’m walking through a shopping mall and suddenly people start surrounding me and there’s nowhere I can go,” she told the British publication. “So sometimes it’s easier to call one of my friends and ask them to pick up some bananas for me because I don’t want to go to the grocery store and have an event.”
She added, “But it’s important to stay grounded, so I don’t know. I’m figuring it out. Or trying to.”
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