Jennifer Lawrence plans to keep her baby's life private: 'I don't want anyone to feel welcome into their existence'

Jennifer Lawrence is expecting her first child with her husband, Cooke Maroney, and that is the extent to which she wishes to let the public in on that part of her life.

"If I was at a dinner party, and somebody was like, 'Oh, my God, you're expecting a baby,' I wouldn't be like, 'God, I can't talk about that. Get away from me, you psycho!'" Lawrence, 31, explained to Vanity Fair. "But every instinct in my body wants to protect their privacy for the rest of their lives, as much as I can. I don’t want anyone to feel welcome into their existence. And I feel like that just starts with not including them in this part of my work."

The Oscar-winning actress wed Maroney, an art gallery director, in October 2019 after getting engaged in February 2019.

Lawrence's proclivity for privacy isn't limited to her unborn baby or marriage, though. Elsewhere in the Vanity Fair profile, written by Karen Valby, she shared that she went so far as to give her dog, Pippi, to her parents because "the paparazzi had come to count on their daily walks in Central Park."

As for why she has retreated from the spotlight almost completely since 2018, Lawrence leveled: 

"I was not pumping out the quality that I should have. I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right. If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’… I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life. Working made me feel like nobody could be mad at me: ‘Okay, I said yes, we’re doing it. Nobody’s mad.’ And then I felt like I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence. So that kind of shook me out of thinking that work or your career can bring any kind of peace to your soul."

Fans can next see Lawrence starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio—and a ridiculously star-studded supporting cast—as astronomer Kate Dibiasky, trying to convince humankind to care about a comet primed to destroy Earth, in Adam McKay's sci-fi dramedy Don't Look Up. It is the first role for Lawrence since 2019's X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Watch the trailer below.