{"id":299047,"date":"2017-03-05T08:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=299047"},"modified":"2017-03-05T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:55:43","slug":"jane-fonda-reveals-rape-and-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/jane-fonda-reveals-rape-and-child-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Fonda reveals rape and child abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda has revealed she is a rape survivor and suffered sexual abuse as a child.<\/p>\n
In an interview with fellow Oscar winner Brie Larson for The Edit, the 79-year-old also said she had once lost a job because she refused her boss’s sexual advances.<\/p>\n
The star added she thought being a young actress now was “terrifying” because of female sexualisation.<\/p>\n
“You have to get naked so much. There is even more emphasis on how you look.”<\/p>\n
Fonda said she “felt diminished” growing up because the men in her life were “victims of a [patriarchal] belief system”.<\/p>\n
She also said she had been “brought up with the disease to please”.<\/p>\n
‘We were violated’<\/strong><\/p>\n “To show you the extent to which a patriarchy takes a toll on females – I’ve been raped, I’ve been sexually abused as a child and I’ve been fired because I wouldn’t sleep with my boss and I always thought it was my fault; that I didn’t do or say the right thing.<\/p>\n “I know young girls who’ve been raped and didn’t even know it was rape. They think, ‘It must have been because I said no the wrong way’.<\/p>\n “One of the great things the women’s movement has done is to make us realise that [rape and abuse is] not our<\/i> fault. We were violated and it’s not right.”<\/p>\n