Jennifer Lawrence with Nicholas Hoult at Comic Con, July 2013

She continued: "When we're busy, we agree to mutually ignore each other. Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them."

It is this mutual understanding that has kept them together, despite the distance separating the pair.

“We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together. At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can both go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other,” she said.

And this own life of hers involves plenty of girl friends. It's all about girl power, you see.

"I don't trust a girl who doesn't have any girlfriends," she claimed. "I have really close girlfriends, but they are guys like me - girls who eat and don't know anything about fashion."

Words: Esther Hong, Images: Rex Features

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