Jennifer Lawrence is sharing how her children have shaped her perspective on life as a dog mom. The Hunger Games alum provided an update on her dog, Princess Pippi Longstocking, revealing why she and her husband, Cooke Maroney, parents to Cy, 3, and a second baby boy born in 2024, decided to rehome the dog within their family. "She's alive, she's with my parents," Jennifer shared in a video during the Q&A for Die My Love on Jan. 7, captured by @jpasc24 on Instagram. "She didn't like New York. I lived on 1st and 67th just to be near the park for her. After I had a child, dogs became so scary."
"My son's going up to it and it's almost like I don't recognize dogs right now," she admitted to the audience at 92nd Street Y in New York City. "I just see them as a threat. One of them bit my son and that just made me want to obliterate every dog ever."
The Silver Linings Playbook actress, who adopted Pippi in 2017, does have a soft spot for felines, especially her own pet Fred, despite their sassy tendencies. "I have a cat and I feel like they're so misunderstood," she explained. "They are a--holes and people who don't like that about cats are getting that, which is so funny."
For Jennifer, who tied the knot with the art gallery director in 2019, motherhood has completely transformed her life in ways she never imagined. "Having children changes everything, it changes your whole life," she said at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May. "It's brutal and incredible. They go into every decision of whether I'm working, where I'm working, when I'm working."
Welcoming her two sons has also given her a new outlook on her career. "I didn't know that I could feel so much and my job has a lot to do with emotion," she reflected. "They've opened up the world to me. It's almost feeling like a blister or something—so sensitive. So they've changed my life, obviously, for the best and they've changed me creatively."
And she was especially grateful to find support in other women amid her postpartum experience. "As a mom, especially when I was a new, first-time mom, my community and having a mom community was so vital," she told E! News in November. "Having a community is so, so important and just being able to check in with other women, like, 'Is this normal?'"
