Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks Physique Comparisons

Jennifer Love Hewitt opened up concerning the misogyny and fixed feedback on her physique she’s confronted through the years.

Jennifer was solely 16 when she filmed her film breakout function, I Know What You Did Final Summer season, following a profitable run on the Fox present Social gathering of 5. Sadly, being a toddler did not cease her from being subjected to objectification (see: Jay Leno asking her about her love life and when she’ll flip 17).

The now-46-year-old is reprising her function in a sequel of the horror film, with photographs from the crimson carpet already going viral on the worst components of the web. Talking to Vulture, she mentioned she needed to be talked into the film by her associates, noting, “What folks have been going to say about how a lot older I would appear than once I was 18. That’s actually the one factor I used to be anxious about.”

On the commentary surrounding her teenage physique, she mirrored, “It bothers me extra now than it did at that age as a result of I used to be in it. Earlier than I even knew what intercourse was, I used to be a intercourse image. I nonetheless don’t know that I’ve that totally outlined for myself as a result of it began so bizarre.”

Wanting again on that 1996 Jay Leno interview, she mentioned, “I used to be making an attempt to be like, I’m not overly attractive! I’m a nerd! I’ve referred to myself loads as a dork, and I wasn’t conscious of it at the moment however, trying again, that was my method of claiming, ‘That’s not me.’”

“I don’t put blame on the folks asking these questions,” she added. “No one was saying, ‘Don’t discuss to ladies like that. Don’t discuss to little ladies like that.’ However I labored laborious on that film. I introduced good things to it, and nobody was speaking about it. It was simply ‘Boob, boob, boob’ in every single place.”

Issues obtained worse when Folks ran paparazzi images of her in 2007 with the headline “Cease Calling Me Fats.” The actor, who notes that she not eats carbs, mirrored, “I don’t assume I used to be ever actually insecure till that cowl. After which when it occurred, I don’t know that I’ve ever recovered from it…As a result of there’s part of me that’s all the time like, Is that this model going to be adequate, or is that going to occur once more? The place anyone’s going to be like, ‘Hey, that is her with out make-up on the cleaners. She appears 59.’”

On the upside, Jennifer started working on the brand new IKWYDLS wardrobe, together with the director and her stylist, which she referred to as “therapeutic.” She mentioned, “No one’s going to be speaking about my boobs. ‘Oh, you need me to flash you? They’re down right here.’”