- Jessie Cave played Lavender Brown in the "Harry Potter" movie series.
- Cave said that she put on some weight before returning to shoot "The Deathly Hallows" parts 1 and 2.
- Cave said that she was "treated like a different species" after going from a size 8 to a size 12.
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Jessie Cave has opened up about her struggles with body image pressure while playing Lavender Brown in the "Harry Potter" movies.
Cave, who won the role of Lavender after over 7,000 people auditioned, told The Independent that she gained weight in between finishing "The Half-Blood Prince" and shooting "Deathly Hallows" parts 1 and 2.
"I gained a lot of weight after doing Harry Potter, just because I wasn't starving myself. And I was growing up and that's just what happens," Cave said. Her return to the set having gained weight, however, was not a pleasant one.
"I was treated like a different species. It was horrible. It was probably more me and my insecurity, knowing that I wasn't fitting into the same size jeans, but it wasn't a time where actresses were any bigger than a size eight," Cave said.
"And in the previous film I had been, and now I was a size 12. So that was horrible. It was a really uncomfortable experience."
Insider has reached out to Warner Bros. for comment.
Cave featured most prominently as Lavender in "The Half-Blood Prince," where her character becomes infatuated with Rupert Grint's Ron Weasley and engages in a very pubic, PDA-filled relationship. Lavender's heart is broken when Ron unwittingly reveals he pines for Hermione. Cave returned as Lavender in the final two "Potter" instalments in much smaller roles.
The role of Lavender was originally played by a different actress, Jennifer Smith, in "The Prisoner of Azkaban" before being recast later in the franchise.
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Cave has since gone on to feature in many movies and TV shows, including the 2014 movie "Pride," an episode of "Black Mirror," and the 2018 movie "Benjamin." Cave is also an author, comedian, and artist.
However, despite this success, Cave still feels the consequences of gaining weight in an unforgiving industry.
"You get a bit bigger, or you're not as relevant, and it goes off, and you have to make your way in the dark. I definitely felt invisible when I gained a little bit of weight," Cave said.
"And since then, it's made me have weird issues with weight and work. And it's so f---ed up, but it's just how it is. Women have to deal with that all the time."
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