Lawrence has alluded to having a complicated relationship with her mother in the past, calling Karen ‘a wonderful person’ while conceding that she is still working on some ‘things’ from her childhood.

Speaking to Vogue last year, the Silver Linings Playbook star said: ‘My mother is a wonderful person, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t still things from my childhood that I’m working out.’

The A-lister went on to connect her career as an actress to the complicated relationship she has with her mother.

‘Art more often than not is about one’s mother,’ said Jennifer. ‘I hesitate to say that because I would hate for somebody to go back and watch my movies, or watch this movie in particular, and think that that is the way that I’m painting my mother.’

Jennifer grew up in Indian Hills, Kentucky, where her father owned a construction company and her mother managed a summer camp.

As the little sister of two older brothers, Jennifer was reportedly raised to be ‘tough’ by her mother, who has a complicated track record when it came to supporting her daughter’s teenage dreams of acting.

Karen allegedly favored the path of modeling for her daughter, but Jennifer insisted on pursuing auditions and making it in Hollywood.

The new mom – who shares a one-year-old baby boy named Cy with husband Cooke Maroney – eventually came full circle and spoke to Vogue about how her craft could be affected by motherhood.

She said: ‘So many of my films in the past have been about my mother, my childhood. I wonder what will happen now that I’ll be witnessing somebody else’s childhood.