Having naked photos of yourself leaked on the internet is a major violation, and no-one felt that more keenly than Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, who – at the age of 24 – had nude photos shared to the world.
Following a major breach of Apple's iCloud service in 2014, hackers circulated private photos of dozens of celebrities, including Lawrence.
Lawrence had intended the private photos to only be seen by boyfriend at the time Nicholas Hoult, and speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress revealed how the violation made her feel like she "got gang-banged by the f**king planet".
"When the hacking thing happened, it was so unbelievably violating that you can't even put it into words," she said. "I think that I'm still actually processing it.
"When I first found out it was happening, my security reached out to me. It was happening minute-to-minute — it was almost like a ransom situation where they were releasing new ones every hour or so.
"And, I don't know, I feel like I got gang-banged by the f**king planet – like, there's not one person in the world that is not capable of seeing these intimate photos of me.
"You can just be at a barbecue and somebody can just pull them up on their phone. That was a really impossible thing to process."
During the interview, Laurence also explained how the hack affected her afterwards, making her doubt herself when people called her a role model for young women.
"I think, like, a year and a half ago, somebody said something to me about how I was 'a good role model for girls'," she added.
"And I had to go into the bathroom and sob because I felt like an imposter.
"I felt like, 'I can't believe somebody still feels that way after what happened.' It's so many different things to process when you've been violated like that."
