Scarlett Johansson may officially be off her strict diet for The Avengers (and therefore be tucking into countless buffalo wings at this very moment), but she has stepped forward to discuss how she certainly has body image issues like nearly every other female in existence. While she’s never really had to worry about her rack, which jiggles in such a way that it probably got her the Black Widow role, Scarlett has a much closer-to-average bikini body than most other starlets currently working in Hollywood. And I personally think Scarlett has a fantastic body (as do many other people), but she frets over it just the same. At the same time, she doesn’t seem to obsess over it and stresses that a large part of her Avengers training was not merely to look good but to be able to handle the physical nature of the role:

Reprising her role as the butt-kicking Black Widow in The Avengers, Scarlett Johansson had her own butt to worry about. Namely, how it looked in her skin-tight, curve-hugging costume.

“First of all, every woman has body worries. I’m not exempt from that,” she tells ITV1’s Daybreak morning show in the U.K. on Tuesday.

“But beyond part of the by-product of spending that much time in the gym is that you can fit into a cat suit.”

But those workouts weren’t all about her hot bod. Johansson, 27, who’s promoting the latest installment of the superhero franchise, in theaters May 4, says she performed her own stunts in the movie as she worked with stunt-double Heidi Moneymaker, which was “a lot of training and dedication.”

“It hurts and it hurts and then suddenly it doesn’t hurt,” she says. “And you’re getting it right, and it’s a great moment — you feel like you’ve accomplished something big.”

Next up: The actress, whose relationship with New York-based advertising executive Nate Naylor was revealed in January, might just make her way from the gym to the recording studio again.

“I would love to,” says Johansson of a potential music-career resurrection, four years after releasing her debut album. “Releasing an album is like a little baby, and you just have to nourish it and you need time for it.”

[From People]

Okay, so a lot of people (myself included) have giggled quite a bit over Scarlett’s monotone execution of most of her roles, but I can’t deny that she handles the physicality of the Black Widow role (plus the jiggle) in a competent manner. Certainly, she worked hard to train for this movie and is proud of the payoff, but I really do hope that she’s serious about not returning to the recording studio any time soon. Now that would be a mistake. Also, the stuntwoman’s name is really Heidi Moneymaker? Awesome.

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