Keira Knightley doesn’t care if women hate her.

Knightley — who Forbes magazine recently named the second highest paid actress in Hollywood — thinks women get obsessed with her for being skinny, but insists criticism is an occupational hazard.

She says, “If you put yourself in the public forum, it’s what you put yourself up for. I don’t need to read it.

“Manipulation is something women do a lot. Women get obsessed with other women – love them or hate them. That line is very easy to cross.”

Keira, 23, also responded to a quote from a columnist in British newspaper The Guardian, which read: “If you want to befriend a woman, ask her the question: ‘What do you think of Keira Knightley?’ In the resulting torrent of bile and loathing, you will bond.”

Keira added, “I’m doing a good thing for women, then.”

And blasting claims she suffers from anorexia, The Atonement starsaid, “Someone saying you have a mental illness is difficult to take. I am skinny. I’ve always been skinny.”