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?
“directly quoted”!
No “journalist” has ever put quotes around anything unless it was 100% absolutely true ever.
Ha ha ha ha.
I’m so funny.
Celebrities fight tooth and nail to get magazine covers, even relatively low-rent ones like Us Weekly. There’s no way they would have just “given” her the cover after only talking to her trainer.
I am running my fourth marathon this weekend, and I have actually gained weight every time I’ve trained. It’s quite a common experience - you get very hungry when you do that much cardio! Sure, some very disciplined people can lose, but I’m offended when she implies that you automatically drop weight in marathon training. Waiting to see her results next year, both on the time clock and the scale. If she’s racing around Feb 09 the high training distances will come up right around Christmas…
Why do we even care..
i could care less about jennifer love chewit (thanks deceiver lol) and us magazine has gotten so lame in the past year. every week it seems like there’s a broad from ‘the hills’ on the cover. seriously who cares? and i highly doubt JLH didn’t participate in that cover. even if she didn’t, its october.. shouldn’t she have dealt with this months ago??
She was a lot cooler when she was fat.
I wish you read your own links. From the Access Hollywood link:
“Jennifer made the statement in an interview, which appeared in Health magazine last month, and she explained to Nancy on Sunday her reasons for making the statement.”
An interview in Health magazine, not Us Weekly. Sounds like the people at Us Weekly had some before & after shots, read the Health magazine interview or had access to it, and then republished her comments. They say “exclusive,” which could easily refer to the information they received from the trainer regarding her diet and workout plan. The Access Hollywood link dates their original article at Sept. 22, saying her comments were from “last month,” i.e., August. The Us Weekly cover story ran in August also. Sometimes, tabloids do run stories like this when they don’t have a great cover story to go with.
At least, you have to acknowledged that this is a possibility.
What good is linking to a supporting source unless you actually read it and see where that leads?
I think she is a darling x