Jennifer Love Hewitt Takes On Bloggers
They Say She Looks Fat And Has Too Much Cellulite In Recent Photos; She Fires Back
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Jennifer Love Hewitt in July (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)
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Jessica Weiner, right, and Hannah Storm on The Early Show Thursday (CBS/The Early Show)
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Some bloggers say she looks overweight and has too much cellulite -- particularly in shots showing her from the rear. One wrote, "She needs to do some jogging. Badly."
E! News Now host Ashlan Gorse says, "People just of course wanted to scrutinize her because she is famous and wanted to call her out on it and called her fat, which wasn't fair."
Love Hewitt, who stars in the CBS drama "Ghost Whisperer," is a size two. And she isn't taking the criticism sitting down.
She's done something rather unusual for a star under the cellulite spotlight. She's spoken up.
Pacific Coast News found her browsing in a bookstore and she looked directly into the camera, saying, "People should be proud of who they are and what they look like, and not let all this silliness and judgment sort of get in the way."
On her Web site, Hewitt says, "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 two is not fat! Nor will it ever be. And being a size zero 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."
Author, columnist and self-esteem expert Jessica Weiner told Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm the putdowns of Love Hewitt are "mortifying, actually, and we need a reality check. She's not fat, she never will be fat at that size, and we have a really skewed sense of beauty in this country. It might be one thing to say, 'Oh, well, it's just relegated to celebrity criticism,' but when we criticize a body like that and we criticize a woman like that, we criticize our own daughters like that.
"Cellulite does not always equal being overweight. It's a genetic thing. We have to keep it in perspective. I work with girls all the time who are saying, 'If they're calling her fat, what are they gonna say about me?' "
"The problem with our daughters," Storm observed, "is that they have a real hard time distinguishing this. If people are calling Jennifer Love Hewitt fat, our daughters assume those people are right. rather than wrong."
"Exactly," agreed Weiner, who wrote, "Life Doesn't Begin Five Pounds From Now." "We have a bombardment of images for our daughters, as we all know. They see hundreds of messages a day that tell them what to eat, what to wear, what to weight, and right now I'm working with girl ... one who is 17 and considering plastic surgery that we're coaching her on. And she's looking at this saying, 'Maybe I should get liposuction, too.' "
"It's really important that moms use this as a teachable moment. They should take our conversation that we're having and bring it home to their daughters, and talk about what they see -- get a Hollywood reality check. What you see out there is airbrushed and retouched, and when you see a photo like this, and it has a cruel intention behind it, use it to talk to your daughter about how to love and appreciate her body right now. Moms have to talk about it. If they want some more tools, they can go to campaignforrealbeauty.com and get involved in the conversation with their daughters."
"And never," Storm stressed, "say to your daughter, 'Does this make me look fat?' Or, 'I feel fat today?' "
"Right," Weiner concurred. "They have to walk their talk."
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See all 62 CommentsThe correct term for the intended meaning here is "getting a lot of flak (or flack)" meaning to receive criticism. It is a figurative term refering to being shot at by artillery. If someone were "getting a lot of slack" that would mean they were being given a break, someone was going easy on them, as in "C''mon, give me some slack!" This is a figurative expression referring to not holding something tight, but letting it be a little looser (like slack in a rope.)
Fight the Dumbing Down of America!
As for Jennifer, I have seen her in person just a couple of weeks ago and she looks great. It makes me wonder if some of those photos are doctored.
To Jennifer: Tell them to bug off .......
When you want to try a different way of managing a problem, you might suggest "taking a different tack." (not tact.)
If something is still in one piece it is intact. Not in tack.
If you are surprised at something you might be "taken aback" (not taken back)
If you are spontaneously expressing thoughts as they occur to you and want to point this out, you say "I''m just thinking out loud" (not "I''m just talking out loud" - duh, we hear you)
Quotation marks are not an appropriate way to emphasise a word - they indicate something someone said (a quotation!) or something that is not in actuality what you are calling it. (The "perfect" person told us all how to correct our speech and writing.) If you want to merely emphasise a word, use italics, bold, underline or larger or different font. (PLEASE listen.)
And APOSTROPHES are to indicate possesive form - not plural! Just because the word ends with an S does not mean it needs an apostrophe!
STICKLERS UNITE!
(wait.....was the grammer ok?)
***?!!!
Posted by denn034
There''s nothing more disgusting to a woman than a man who is this stupid (and you KNOW he''s as ugly as a baboons a$$) judging women on their looks.
If you have short arms, hug your girl, make a chalk mark and hug again til you have hugged all of her.
Posted by denn034 at 05:38 PM : Dec 07, 2007
That is dead wrong.
Posted by hdvideo1
You can''t go by that one picture. Looking at other pictures of her at events and such, she certainly can be a size 2, she''s pretty thin waist-wise. The infamous picture itself is a bit misleading because she''s only 5 foot 2 so any feature on her is exaggerated to begin with.
Fight the Dumbing Down of America!
Posted by dahnajeen
Keep fighting, but I hope you NO what you''re talking about. LOL
UNTIE!
It''s deception...they try to make woman think they are thinner than they are.
She is a lovely young lady, and well grounded in the real world.
Fat paunchy bald guys are lovable too, unless they''re pointing their finger at a woman with a less than perfect body.
No wonder so many teens have eating disorders - they''re trying to look like Paris Hilton who''s probably a size double-0.
The fact is that most men like a woman who looks like a woman and not a little girl - and I worry about the men that go after size double-0 - deep down do they like little kids??
It''s a big world out there. We can talk about all kinds of things. Not every discussion in the world has to be about Iraq or some other earthshaking event. Lighten up.
She''s not a size 2.
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