Jennifer Love Hewitt Gets Real
Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:55:39 AM PDT
I'm not one for celebrity gossip. I used to get
Entertainment Weekly years ago and followed all the happenings with the stars of the day. But since I've had kids, I just don't really have any interest. Every once in a while I hear an inspiring story about a celebrity that intrigues me. Well, today when I was checking on the weather (it's a snow day and both kids are off from school) I happened to catch a blip about an upcoming story on Jennifer Love Hewitt. Apparently, some paparazzi shot
photos of her akin to the
Tyra Banks photos that were taken last year which of course, ended up being posted on the internet. She was in her bathing suit, and guess what... she doesn't look like Nicole Ritche. She has CURVES.
As you can imagine, horrible comments like
We know what you ate last summer in regards those photos have inflamed Hewitt. From her own
blog...
This is the last time I will address this subject.
I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized. To set the record straight, I'm not upset for me, but for all of the girls out there that are struggling with their body image.
A size 2 is not fat! Nor will it ever be. And being a size 0 doesn't make you beautiful.
What I should be doing is celebrating some of the best days of my life and my engagement to the man of my dreams, instead of having to deal with photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles. I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family. And like all women out there should, I love my body.
To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini -- put it on and stay strong.
Xoxo
JLH
I love it! Unlike Tyra Banks, Hewitt didn't see this as a call to lose weight. She said... suck it, media... I like my body!
This country is obsessed with thin. Do you remember the hubbub about the Dove's Campaign for Beauty models?
I remember hearing some terrible things about those billboards. One comment comes to mind...
The only place I want to see a thigh like that is in a bucket of extra-crispy.
Oy. As a country, I think we are really all over the place on weight. They say the obesity rate is rising, but it seems like women in the media are getting thinner too. It's a very strange paradox indeed.
Finally, I have to give a shout out to the late Anita Roddick, who was the first woman I remember speaking out about the obsession with thin.
I agree with Hewitt and Roddick. We need young girls to feel empowered and not feel pressured to be size 0. After all, you don't have to be thin to be beautiful.
