Us Weekly has cojones, man. I get the impression they went up to Jennifer Love Hewitt to be all “You used to be fat. What do you think of the Jessica Simpson flap?”
And of course, she has an opinion on it:
Jennifer Love Hewitt tells Usmagazine.com she wishes people would stop debating Jessica Simpson’s weight.
“I wish they would leave her alone,” she told Us Sunday at Lela Rose fashion show in NYC.
Her message to Simpson? “Ignore it, live your life and be happy.”
Hewitt — who was famously mocked in 2007 when photos surfaced of her looking particularly curvy in a bikini — told Us she is tired of the “unreasonable” Hollywood standards when it comes to weight.
“It gets silly,” she told Us. “We’re all supposed to look how we’re supposed to look. We’re made to be different people.
“Not everybody can be super tall and super skinny,” she added. “You have to look inside yourself and find your own confidence. It wavers from day to day, but that’s human nature.”
Honestly I’m amazed Us Weekly managed to get that quote from her, considering that just last month they ran a cover story about how her engagement to Ross McCall ended over her body insecurities. People echoed the sentiment, reporting that she made it her mission to lose a lot of weight for her no-longer-upcoming wedding.
Just saying, it’s weird how she became the poster child for body confidence. She doth protest too much.
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I’d hit it, and Jessica too. Then I would go to heaven.
JRod- take a number my friend and prepare to wait a while till I’m through touring the mountains.
Switch! TAG! Whatever kids do nowadays. I’ll take the less chubby one first…
You can’t really blame them about being insecure, though. I’ve always thought J Love was a reasonably mentally sound actress, but when news publications keep flogging her for her appearance, it’s only natural she’s going to get nervous. She has an awkward figure to defend, too–wide hips and a narrow waist, even with meat on it.
Of course, I don’t know a lot about the whole ongoing story and its particulars, so maybe she’s kookier than I want to believe. Please let me have my illusions! I like to believe there’s maybe one or two sane actresses out there.
I wouldn’t touch the Blonde Bimbo with a 10 foot STD pole.
But Jennifer is doable even when she was heavier.
To make a sweeping generalization, actors and actresses seem to be inherently insecure people (why they get into acting in the first place?) so it’s not surprising they have insecurities about their bodies.
Add to that the tabloids and blogs constantly issuing judgment on actresses’ figures these days (“Angie – Too Thin?!?” “Guess Whose Cellulite!”) and it’s a wonder these ladies aren’t completely neurotic. Well, maybe they are.
I’d let both J Love & Jess tag team on me…in either chubby or slim mode.Neither should worry if they’re a coupla’ pounds over.
MC Mom: Oh well, they get into acting in the first place for validation.
When you have that kind of insecurity, it’s nice to have people screaming your name.
I just think it’s hilarious that they come out and say “I love me!!!” And then stop eating.
Just admit that yea, sometimes it gets to you and you’re only human and if you love your body, stick to it. They shouldn’t cave. People love to get on me for eating sooo much and not gaining any weight. Kind of makes you feel bad and you want to tell them “Oh but I work out” or something that validates their notions, but screw that, end of the day, if you’re about being true to you. Be true to you.
And that’s what cracks me up about Hollywood. Besides, they’re not famous because they’re talented, they’re famous because of their “talents”. 2 “talents” to be exact.
That’s not 100% accurate Annie. I have seen lots of Great “Talents” that never got record contracts or Movie scripts…
They keep calling them “curvy”. You know what else is curvy? A beach ball. If I’m paying 10 bucks to watch fat people in a movie, one of them better be Orson Welles.
I didn’t say all “talents” get noticed in hollywood. The people that inhabit LA are proof of that. lol.
I’m just saying the reason they’re relevant is because of their “talents”.
Pasta- if you are paying money to watch either one of them in a movie you have more problems than them being a little chunky.
No kidding.
Hurricane, you beat me to it. That’s what I get for stepping away from the computer.
Chunky? Do you live in a bubble? The average American woman used to weigh 165lbs and was 5ft 5in. It isn’t that anymore, we have expanded even more.
We are a fat nation that expects those in hollywood to look nothing like the rest of us because we don’t want to see what we really look like. We expect our actresses to be underweight and have a postiive body image even though we critize them immensely.
Am I the only person who sees the blatant hypocrisy of the entire ‘fat debate’ in this country? As I am typing right this minute, there seem to be two entirely contradictory, yet somehow immutable, laws in force when it comes to obesity:
1. We have way too many overweight people in this country, and this fact must be trumpeted by everyone in health services and government at every conceivable opportunity.
2. In NO way, at ANY time, under ANY circumstance, are you to bring someone’s weight to their attention – lest you damage their ‘body image’. Everyone should be happy with themselves the way they are.
How exactly are we supposed to fix the fat people problem when we can’t call fat people fat?
I know I’m in the minority, but I can relate to Jennifer Love Hewitt, not only in my recent weight gain.
I hate my body and I’m ashamed of it because this is by far the heaviest I’ve been in 20 years. Surprisingly, I am healthy despite my lousy diet and lack of exercise over the past year. However, I am losing weight because I’m unhappy.
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m completely miserable, bitter, and insecure because of my current size, so for me I’m doing it to improve my image and mental health, but I’d actually never wish this kind of self-loathing that I’ve had to experience on anyone.
i stopped buying us weekly since they’re always up heidi and spencer’s asses, but i do remember seeing that cover about jennifer and her fiance calling it quits at the store last month. and i remember reading on one of the blogs on here she wanted to loose a lot of weight for her wedding.. which now isn’t happening. and even if she didn’t do all that, does anyone REALLY care what she thinks??
Jennifer is better than Brittany. JROD needs to sit back since I would hit it better. And I have feelings.
All of that love set asaid, she likes me better because of pigs in a blanket cooking and my chinchilla undies. JROD never mentioned my big ol pig in a XL Trojan blanket. Yeah baby. Sorry, I got carried away. Ok, it the chinchallas man.
“trojan blanket” hahaha!
I think my real problem with the whole, “Oh my God, look how fat *fill in the blank* is!” is not so much how the celebrity responds, but that it’s such a dominant issue in the tabloids at all. Look, Jennifer Love Hewitt has never reacted to this sort of thing well because yes, she doth protest too much, and Jessica Simpson is obviously struggling with it if she is announcing to the world that she is performing in skorts and then barely getting through a performance. I kind of feel for them, though because any normal non famous woman that packs on as much weight as they have is not going to have a huge problem with it. Neither of them are even obese, and the tabloids act as though they are turning into circus fat ladies.
People that get into show business and are grounded, not plagued with hang ups, and generally down to earth are few and far between. Though I would love to point the accusing finger of hypocrisy at JLH, I feel dirty doing so because she is not one of those grounded, generally down to earth people without major hang ups.
It’s Schadenfreude, plain and simple. (I THINK I spelled that correctly; no doubt someone will let me know if I didn’t.) So many people get off on pointing and laughing at anyone who’s sporting any visible flesh whatsoever, as though (as Chronic Malanga stated) their next step would be trolling through Publix on a Rascal. Then, when the smirker puts on a few pounds, suddenly there needs to be more sympathy and more “body acceptance”. Because suddenly, making fun of overweight (or even normal weight) people is MEAN.
To a point, it’s like making fun of old people; sooner or later it hits YOU, and then the Metamucil/Viagra/blue hair jokes aren’t funny at all. Or, if you’re lucky, you die young, I guess.
Lisa- Chunky indeed compared to their previous sizes. I was not, nor do I care to, issue a blanket statement concerning women in general. Sure, you have all gotten fatter over the ages. So have men. Whoopi-friggin-diddly-do. Hollywood standards are asburd, unhealthy and quite dangerous to many people who have such low self-esteem.
However, since J Love and Jessica willingly play the game and reap the financial benefits of it they are fair targets to be called Jabba the Hutts if we so chose.
And hey, the fatter they get the better chance I have with them.
I believe that the “fat war” is largely something media-induced. Yes, a great many of us in the country aren’t in our proper BMI bracket, but the perception of what “fat” is has changed, too. I watched one of those old classic B horror films the other night, “The Horrors of Spider Island,” and it primarily focused on these dancing girls who got stranded on an island populated by spiders. The point? I guess this movie came out in the late forties or early fifties–these gorgeous dancing girls all had meat on them and they all pranced around in two-piece bathing suits and were in fact considered healthy and beautiful. Now it’s like we all believe we shouldn’t weigh over 120, no matter our height or what weight our body naturally settles at. The definition of “fat” has indeed changed–and with the media dissecting every ten pounds gained or lost among the Hollywood crowd, it’s a wonder the women at home are nursing the same insecurities. “People is eating Jennifer Love Hewitt alive this week for her weight gain! I’ll never eat candy again!”
Man that’s an awesome movie.
Beige, I think you’re right about the Schadenfreude (sp?), but as a woman in the public spotlight, you kind of can’t win. Either you’re a big fat cow or you’re so skinny you’re peeking around the lintel of death’s door – everyone’s idea of the ‘ideal’ weight seems to have a margin on either side of 12 ounces or less.
Habanada, it’s fun to watch old movies and see beautiful ladies who today in Hollywood would be on the far side of ‘plus-sized’ models on ANTM. Here’s hoping the pendulum will swing back that way so we see something more than bodies that look like 13-year-olds with giant gazongas glued on top.
I am still struggling with the fact that people who are a size 4 or 6 are called fat. I lost 50 pounds and went down to a size 10 and was healthy and sexy. So, in people’s eyes is a size 10 obese? That is just crazy.
No angry army wife, I think the problem most people have is when someone like Jessica Simpson, who’s only apparent talent was looks and then she let them go to Hell. Okay I’m exaggerating a little, but if your only job in life is to look good, and get paid 10’s of millions of dollars for it and you suddenly show up at a concert looking like a hippopotamus with a gland problem then you get made fun of. And you should too. By me. Because I’m awesome.
“I am still struggling with the fact that people who are a size 4 or 6 are called fat.”
Same here army wife.
Neither Jessica nor Jennifer is in any danger of being harpooned for ambergris.
I remember the comments about Ava Longoria who everyone thought she was pregnant because she had gotten so big and fat. She went from a size 00 to a size 0. Talk about giving the rest of us real women a complex. And yes, they are paid millions of dollars but do I really want to see their bones sticking out everywhere. What about being a role model, especially when they live off of the money we have paid to see them.
angry army wife: Half the trouble is that people refuse to recognize that we all come in different heights, which can also have an affect on our clothing sizes. I wear a 10 myself and it’s perfectly normal and healthy by human sizes; that might not be the case for everyone, but I can think of almost no one who is healthy at a size 0. I can’t even comprehend it.
Yes, Habanada, we all come in different heights – the only women I know who are my height (5′8) and size 0 are models, who presumably live on air and sushi fumes.
And we not only come in different heights, but also different builds. The likelihood of me being a size 0, at 5′8 and medium build, is somewhere around 0 – 0%, even if I lost 30 pounds. Which I guess I could do if I ate only air and sniffed at raw fish.
My opinion on this “issue” is this; I am fat. Not chubby, not curvy, fat. I know it, anyone who sees me knows it. That being said, I think it’s ridiculous that these actresses put on a few pounds and are suddenly all over the cover’s of magazines. When Jessica Simpson gained weight recently random celebs were asked about it by “reporters” and the paps. I think it’s sad and sick. I don’t care that both of these women suck at acting, they don’t deserve to be mocked by the entire nation for putting on a few pounds. They both seem ditzy and they can’t act, but I don’t think they are bad people. What have they really done wrong? Make awful music, movies, and t.v. shows. That doesn’t give millions of people a right to weigh in (DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE) on their bodies. I feel bad for them. I know this is part of being hugely famous (Ok that one was unintentional) and these women are rich and they get to do what they love for a living, so it’s not like they are suffering, but it would be incredibly awful to gain fifteen pounds and walk by a news stand filled with headlines about how fat you are now.
I also think it is ridiculous and sad that the magazines rag on bony actresses and insult chubby ones in the same spead. “You can see her bones! She looks awful!”. “She has cellulite! Where did she go wrong?”. I just think it’s unfortunate.
That’s just this girl’s opinion. Now if you don’t mind I’m going to go eat my way through the witch’s gingerbread house. Hey, I skipped lunch.
Definitely true, MC Mom. I don’t have a waist. It wouldn’t matter if I weighed 110 or whatever “ideal” is this week, I just don’t have a waist. Which means I’m always going to be a size or so more than someone else about my height and weight who does have a waist (like my sister).
It’s ridiculous what people will put themselves through for some abstract concept of beauty that will have changed by the time they achieve it.
Habanada and MC Mom both have reminded me of something that always had frustrated me.
Even though when I’m thin, I have a waist, one thing I can never be is have an hourglass figure no matter how hard I try. This *is* the fattest I have been in all my life, and my ass? It’s still flat.
I personally think that this ideal is perpetuated by men who have spent too much down time with their precious skin mags moreso than catty women and juiced up guido stereotypes who freak out at the sight of belly or upper body fat.
I’m personally insulted that since I’m not built like Jessica Rabbit that some sleazebag doesn’t think I’m feminine because of it. It angers me as much when someone insults a girl for not having enough “junk in her trunk” as it does when someone insults a girl for having a small belly and comparing her to a beached whale.
I may be biased on experience, but when will it be acceptable to appreciate the aesthetic of women within all reasonable shapes and sizes?
It’s like everything else, Christina. When even Barbie isn’t safe from having her body image criticized, we’re all in trouble. While I admit that dear old Sir Mix-A-Lot has *reduced* mockery of big butts, its condemnation hasn’t really gone away completely, but of course either extreme gets criticized. I’m just confused as to what we’re supposed to look like since nobody’s getting held up as a paragon of feminine figure. Of course in this day and age, it’s easier to harp than it is to praise. I mean, look at us all in here, tearing up Jennifer Love Hewitt XD
Whoa, whoa, whoa Christina.
Life in the Jessica Rabbit bracket ain’t so special either. Frankly speaking, low cut gowns with CGI sequins are universally inappropriate daywear.
I can’t remember the last item I wore right off the rack. If it slides over the trunk or the rack, it gapes at the waist and swings in the wind. I had to learn to sew so that I could dart my shirts, and I haven’t tucked one since I was 12. I challenge y’all to find anything in tall pants which doesn’t assume you’re built like Ichabod Crane.
Look at the variety of women on board here: Christina’s narrow, Katy’s an apple. Habanada wants the waist I’d gladly put up on ebay. MC and I haven’t seen 110 since the 8th grade.
What do we have in common? We’re all looking at “hot” celebrities who more closely resemble Alfred E. Neuman than estrogen based life forms.
Honestly, I can’t watch Hillary Swank because I’m afraid she’ll pop a cheek bone while yawning. The only roles Callista Flockhart and Ashley Judd are fit for is albino twin Rwandan refugees. Angelina Jolie? Skeletor with a fat lip. Helen Hunt ruined her natural beauty by over dieting, looks like Nicole Kidman’s heading the exact same way.
So what if Jessica and Jennifer gain a few pounds. Probably makes ‘em normal sized.
Minnow- I agree and by that you also mean “human”
“Hourglass” isn’t so hot either. I am not fat, but I am short and have a traditional Cuban figure. So some bathing suits and tank tops don’t work for me, and finding jeans outside of the kids’ section that look like adult clothes is a pain. If I gain five pounds, I look like a nursing wildebeest, and I am talking going from 105 to 110 will achieve that effect given the way I am built. In the end, though, I am happy with what I have. We all want a bigger this or a smaller that at some point or another, but who the hell cares as long as you are healthy? I wouldn’t trade who I am with anyone, famous or not. No one should be so unhappy with themselves that they would obsess over this sort of thing.
I’m what all my friends refer to as “pocket-sized” and can’t find a pair of jeans that fit for the life of me lol. I wear the 1-S at Hollister and even THOSE are too long lol. So yes, we all come in many different shapes and sizes and we’ve all been judged for them in one way or another that is inappropriate because let me tell you, people see me eat and then they go, wait, you must be bulimic right? Cuz you’re so skinny but you eat like a whale. Wtf? How are you gonna straight up call someone bulimic?
With that said, I think that the reason why people judge those two, is because they’ve made a career using their bodies.
The issues isn’t an everyday woman’s body. I think the issue is that if you make a living off your body, expect to be judged on it.
Oh and apparently Barbie is so anatomically incorrect that if she were to be a real woman, she’d be on all fours because the proportions are so off.
And this notion of hourglass has always made me sad, because it reminds me of a time where corsets were the norm, or as I like to refer to it: The womanly dark ages.
Besides, end of the day, if you love you, then that’s what counts. As far as celebrities go, I think being subjected to our scrutiny is part of the job. They get paid millions of dollars, we call them fat.
If someone gave me millions of dollars…I’d just ignore the scrutiny and roll around naked in my money.
Barbie, a real woman on all fours? Where’s Jrod when you need him.
Sorry.
And we now take you back to “Deceiver’s Self-Esteem Corner”.
Oprah back to you.
Eh, S’awright, Annie. Big hugs for all. Except Chris Brown.
Don’t you have any body issues Pasta?
How do you feel about your thighs? Go ahead, let it out. We’re here for you.
Yes I do. Whenever I go to restaurants the chefs always come over to the table so they can grate cheese on my abs. Maybe I should go somewhere else. And some have complained because my wiener is much to big. But that’s genetic. What can I do?
Pasta, I’m crying over here. Hee.