Jennifer Lawrence pads into the newly opened Dior Spa Cipriani at Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice, wearing sweatpants and embroidered memory-foam slippers. That alone is quite a sight, but as she sits down beside me, she effortlessly opens a bottle of water that I had been struggling with just moments earlier. Consider me doubly impressed.
Lawrence has just wrapped filming Martin Scorsese’s thriller What Happens at Night with Leonardo DiCaprio in Brooklyn, which means it’s time to switch up her fitness routine and focus on strength training. “I’ve been trying to work out more because when I’m working, I don’t put that pressure on myself,” she tells me. Yoga is her new class of choice, and she needs that structure “because if I have a trainer, I’ll just manipulate them and end up talking the whole time. Lay on my back and be like, ‘So what was your childhood like?’” says Lawrence. “I didn’t use to think of yoga as a workout, but it is.” Not hot yoga, though, because anything that triggers melasma (something we share!) is handled with care, something I learn during our conversation.
Close up on a cream bouclé love seat, Lawrence really is keeping it spa-day light (she speaks “pee-pee-poo-poo” into my phone when I announce I’m recording), really is unfiltered (calls me “moneybags” for throwing out a moldy humidifier instead of cleaning it with vinegar), and really is making me laugh in that way other girls with older brothers always can. She wears no visible makeup and has no visible pores (not that there’s anything wrong with the ones you can see!), and her natural waves fall in a perfectly chill way over her plain white tee.
Photographed by Marco Lessi
Photographed by Marco Lessi
We’ve both tested out the sparkling new space, and “I was there for like five and a half hours,” Lawrence estimates of the multi-step facial and the even longer massage. She likes lymphatic drainage to “depuff” after a long flight, and couldn’t help but fall asleep while her esthetician worked. “I snored and then went, ‘Sorry,’ as if she would get really mad at me,” Lawrence admits. I blame the treatment beds, so soft with buttery comforters instead of bumpy towels.
As a Dior fashion and beauty ambassador (and an Oscar winner who understands red-carpet prep), Lawrence has tried many such beds, including one at the brand’s New York spa earlier in the week. She likely knows that those slippers on her feet are a treatment-room perk (I’ve already walked a pair back to my opulent room). When I ask if she’s a spa person in real life, Lawrence lists the treatments she loves and hates: “I hate getting my hair colored. I also hate going to the nail salon. I saw a tweet that was like, ‘It’s like going to the hand dentist.’ It’s not relaxing. It’s not fun. It’s really, really boring. It takes so long.” I agree and say I want two people working in tandem, hands and toes. “Yeah, and while I’m, like, driving and getting something done,” she imagines.
Photographed by Marco Lessi
Photographed by Marco Lessi
Lawrence does “believe in facials,” she tells me when I admit to skipping them. “Yeah, because I can’t really get very much done. I need to have movement in my face—I get baby Botox, but I can’t do a lot,” she says of the industry term for microdosed injections meant to smooth without totally freezing muscles. “If my skin is going to be a little saggier than I would like, at least it looks dewy and pretty.” She’s open about the plastic surgery on her mind in this era of secret tweakments and deep-plane facelifts. “Oh, I’m really nervous about these fat transfers. I support other people doing them because I want to continue to watch and see what happens, but I don’t know about that,” she says. “I mean, I would love to have a buccal fat removal. I can’t because everybody would know, but just know that I want that.”
Instead, during these hours of high-touch luxury, Lawrence prefers Dior’s signature Mascarade treatment inspired by masJennifer, one of the Venetian artisans who handcraft elaborate masks, blends manual facial massage with high-tech machines—Radiofrequency, Microcurrent, Ultrasound—and plenty of mask applications, from Cryo to Cream to LED. “I do like the radiofrequency because I have huge cheeks, so I feel like exercising them as much as possible,” she says. When one machine misted oxygen over a layer of Dior Prestige skincare, “I thought she was smoking in my face,” Lawrence laughs. “When you’re in Europe, you never know. But I just felt this poof. It turned out not to be a cigarette, and it was really hydrating and refreshing.”
Lawrence has just started a “retinol journey” (she’s on Tretinoin, or “Tret”), so hydration is a top priority. “I fell for that Desitin, the diaper cream at night, which I do stand by—not permanently because it’s not moisturizing. But when you’re increasing your retinol and your face gets red, sleeping in Desitin made my pores smaller and healed the redness, I noticed.” When I tell her I’ve stopped using strong retinol after it turned my skin into a shallow scab in my teens, she shares her friend Tracy Dubb’s tip. “Well, you have to sandwich,” Lawrence says. “Use a night cream, something really moisturizing. Then Tret. Then a spritz of water and oil, because what I didn’t realize for so long—and I’m really happy to tell you this—is that oil traps water in. So you need to give the oil some water to sit on top of, so it seals it into your skin.” It’s one of the beauty tricks she learned in real life, not from Instagram or TikTok.
Well-versed in 2026 social media wellness, there are things Lawrence will never try, like drinking clay or raw milk, and things she will, like eating breakfast. “I mean, I’m about to be 36, so I feel like my bones are cracking beneath me,” she says, and it’s at least the second time she’s mentioned bones. “My natural habit is that I’m never hungry in the morning. It’s just coffee. Then in the afternoon, I eat candy or something horrible. But I read something on Instagram—so it has to be true—that this is bad for women because if you don’t eat before you work out, it spikes cortisol or something. So I just took that at face value.” Relatable and real.
She got a new plastic-free coffee maker: “I don’t love it. I wish I enjoyed it more.” She’s trying to take her vitamins. “I believe in my heart that vitamin C is going to help my skin, but I don’t know,” she says, adding that it’s no longer going on her face, “because I heard that it’s fake. So that’s over for me.” She’s trying ancient remedies: “Sometimes, if I don’t get to washing my face in the morning and I have to run down the stairs, I put a little olive oil on my face.”
Lawrence is, in her own way, a sun-care queen. She’s been applying sunblock to her hands to protect their own retinol journey, so I tell her about UV gloves. “That’s so fabulous, I need to do that. I’ve been wearing a scarf over my melasma spots ever since I started Tret, and of course, when I get photographed, people think I’m making some sort of fashion statement. I’m literally just haggard and scaling and trying to survive.” When I ask if she ties it like a bandit, she explains that it goes under her chin and points to the sides of her cheeks, “because I get the melasma here.” Like a movie-star-in-a-convertible tie? “Yeah. There’s no amount of looking goofy that I’m going to care about more than my melasma.” I tell her about SPF stickers that can go under an eye or above a lip. “And you go out in that? So you just put on a handlebar mustache. Okay, I take back what I said. I do care a little bit more than you about what I look like. You are brave.”
Like so many stars this summer, she’s become a Citi Bike enthusiast. “I’ve been trying to bike everywhere in New York, and not an electric bike. I’ve realized now that I’m iIn my mid-30s, I’ll take a workout class, but that’s only about 45 minutes to an hour, and honestly, that’s all the movement I get. I really need to be more active throughout the day. I check if she’s wearing a helmet, since I rarely see them in Manhattan. “If I had a helmet, I’d wear it. I think it’s the right thing to do,” she says. “If I ever see someone with a helmet, I don’t think, ‘Loser!’—it’s definitely what you should do. I just don’t always plan ahead.”
Tomorrow, we’ll leave this Italian paradise on the same flight back to JFK. For Lawrence, it’ll be a little escape from the online world, maybe with a glass of white wine. “I never connect to Wi-Fi, I never have,” she says. “I love switching off, and especially since having kids, I used to hate flying, but now I love it.” Her dry, parental wisdom flows. “When someone else is traveling with their kids and I’m alone without mine, but I see others going through it,” Lawrence says, looking straight at me, “that’s the only thing that makes me feel even better than I already do.”
Photographed at Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice. Hair by Jacob Rozenberg; makeup by Shayna Goldberg.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Here is a list of FAQs based on Jennifer Lawrences recent honest comments about beauty and aging
General Mindset
1 What did Jennifer Lawrence actually say about getting older
She talked about the shift in mindset that happens in your late 20s and early 30s She mentioned that she no longer feels the pressure to please everyone and that she cares less about superficial things Shes been vocal about how your body changes and how shes learning to accept that rather than fight it
2 Why is everyone making such a big deal about her comments
Because she is being refreshingly honest In Hollywood where there is immense pressure to look ageless its rare for a major Alist star to admit that they dont look the same as they did at 22 and that they are okay with it It feels relatable to normal women who are also navigating the same changes
3 Did Jennifer Lawrence say she is letting herself go
No She clarified that she isnt letting herself go rather she is letting go of the anxiety about aging She is shifting her focus from maintaining a specific image to prioritizing her health happiness and family
4 Does she have a skincare routine or antiaging secrets
In her interviews she has joked that she is lazy with skincare and doesnt have a crazy 10step routine Her main advice is about sunscreen and not obsessing over every new wrinkle She emphasizes that confidence and not being miserable about your looks are the real keys to looking good
Body Image PostBaby Changes
5 What did she say about her body after having her baby
She has been very open about the fact that her body looks different now She mentioned that she has mom belly and that her body has changed shape permanently She expressed that she is trying to be kind to herself about it instead of rushing to bounce back to her prebaby body
6 Is she doing extreme diets or workouts to get back in shape
No She has said she isnt doing anything extreme She works out to feel strong and have energy not to punish herself She has stated that she doesnt want to starve herself to fit into a specific dress size anymore
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