Jennifer Love Hewitt caught some flack from me when she went on the cover of Us Weekly in August to brag about her weight loss. I thought she was being a big ol’ hypocrite for flaunting her new svelte look after telling “all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist” to wear their bikinis with pride and feel beautiful no matter what their size.

Well now she’s telling TV Guide that she never agreed to go on the cover of that magazine:

TVGuide.com: Having lashed back at the media about that “controversy,” did you hesitate about participating in that Us Weekly cover story about your 18-lb. weight loss?

Hewitt: You know what’s funny is I didn’t participate in it. Everybody thinks I did, but…. They talked to my trainer, who I think was just trying to say nice things and it kind of went on. I literally got a phone call saying, “P.S. You’re going to be on the cover of Us, and they’re talking about you losing weight.” I was like, “What?!” [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: I myself thought, “How could she do that, having criticized the media for obsessing on body image?”

Hewitt: I know, and that’s what everybody keeps concentrating on, but I had nothing to do with it. I didn’t go lose weight because of that. I’m not a “work out” kind of girl — I’d rather shop or see a movie! — but I got this “bug” in me to run a marathon for my 30th birthday [next Feb. 21]. I started training, and when you’re doing anything like that which you’re not used to, you drop weight. When I heard all the compliments and nice things, it made me nervous. I didn’t want people to think what I said [last year] wasn’t true, because I stand by what I said. People’s bodies are going to change. Sometimes you’re going to go up, sometimes you’re going to go down…. I wish people would stop talking about it all together, to be quite honest.

I wish “they” would too, JLH. By which I of course mean “you.”

But more importantly, does anyone believe that she didn’t grant an interview for the cover? One in which she is directly quoted. And then at the Emmys two weeks ago, she repeated the sentiment in an interview with Access Hollywood. Or did she not knowingly participate in that either?