Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about fighting back at bullies, being ‘boring’ and shunning her sex symbol status.

The Oscar-winning actress – who was picked on by her peers – is now wary of ‘suck-ups’ but does not respond to them.

She told The Sun: “I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school,

because I was doing all right, although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn’t invited to.

“But that was fine, I just hocked a loogie on them and threw them in the trash can. Don’t worry about the bitches – that could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life.”

The 22-year-old star, who moved to New York aged 14 to pursue her acting career, said: “I thought I was going to be a doctor for a long time, or a teacher for a minute, or a fireman.”

Picking her roles wisely, she said of Hollywood: “I never play characters that are like me because I’m a boring person. I wouldn’t want to see me in a movie.”

On her meteoric rise to fame, she said: “When you get a promotion at your job, you don’t go, ‘God, that was too fast, can I stay in the mailroom?’ You kind of take it thankfully. It was fast, but I’m grateful for it.

“It’s hard for a young woman because typically the roles you’re offered are beautiful and bitchy, ugly and nice or pretty and stupid. I’ve been lucky to stay away from that.

“It’s ridiculous, because I don’t think of myself as a star. I saw this guy recently who’s not even that famous, he’s just in an ad on TV, and I almost had a heart attack.”

Adverse to being called a sex symbol, she said: “I don’t think of myself as sexy and, obviously, it’s not true. I’m going to try to push that out of my mind because it makes me queasy.”

Of her recently unrecognisable modelling pictures for Dior, she joked: “That doesn’t look like me at all. I love Photoshop more than anything in the world. Of course it’s Photoshop – people don’t look like that.”

Single, after spliting from British actor Nicholas Hoult in January, she said: “Guys are guys, but British ones talk differently.

“American guys feel the need to exude so much confidence and British guys tend to do the slumping shoulders and almost stammering kind of attitude, which is a lot more likeable than the ‘I can do everything’ American thing.”

She added on her star-studded life: “My life isn’t really in Hollywood, so unless I’m working I don’t go to those parties. Seeing everybody suck up to you and treating you differently – you just can’t let it affect you.”

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Source: USA Today