Jennifer Lawrence attends the premiere of the film "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" in New York CREDIT: REUTERS

It's safe to say that Jennifer Lawrence is slowly becoming the poster girl against negative body image.

During her interview with Barbara Walters for her list of 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013, The Hunger Games star discussed body image and her fear for its effects on the younger generation.

"(W)hy is humiliating people funny?" she tells Walters, as she starts lamenting on the media criticizing celebrities which then affects its viewers at some extent.

"I get it, I do it too. We all do it..." Lawrence says further. "But I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls that are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool... So then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl that's wearing an ugly dress."

Lawrence was especially infuriated with those who humiliate people for being fat.

"And the word fat!" she exclaims. "I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words because of the effect it has on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?"

The American Hustle actress has been vocal on promoting positive body image to younger girls through her interviews. In the Q&A session with Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, she tells young girls to '(s)crew the people who judge you,' because even she 'experienced it in school before I was famous.'

'You have to see past it. You look how you look, you have to be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb,' Lawrence says.

Furthermore, she insists to Elle magazine that she will never sacrifice her body for a role in a movie. She slams in the process a New York Times critic who says she was not too skinny for the role of Katniss Everdeen in the second installment of The Hunger Games franchise.

"I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner'... I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed."

"I eat like a caveman," Lawrence says further. "I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumors."