People said some pretty gross things to Jennifer Love Hewitt when she was a teenager, and she’s opening up about it now.
“There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it,” Hewitt said on Mayim Bialik’s podcast Breakdown. “It was a culture that was fully accepted, but when you sit, and you look at where we are now versus then, it is really mind-blowing.”
Hewitt was still a teenager when her first big movie, I Know What You Did Last Summer, premiered. She explained that she became a sex symbol before she even really understood what that meant. “When the movie came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’ and that was like the joke,” she said. “And, again, everybody would laugh, so I would laugh. It was supposed to be funny, I guess. It didn’t register with me that this is a grown man talking to me about my breasts on national television.”
And after Hewitt was on the cover of Maxim at age 17, she said men would make crude, suggestive jokes to her to her face. “People would openly walk up and be like, ‘I took your magazine with me on a trip last week,’” she said. “I didn’t really know what that meant,” she added. “It’s kind of gross.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt has talked about the world’s obsession with her boobs before. In a 2021 interview with Vulture, she recalled journalists asking questions about her breasts constantly in the late ’90s and early 2000s. “At a press junket for I Know or I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, I remember purposely wearing a T-shirt that said ‘Silicone Free’ on it because I was so annoyed, and I knew something about boobs was gonna be the first question out of [reporters’] mouths. I was really tired of that conversation.”
Now, at least, Hewitt can control the conversation. But let’s not pretend that society has stopped being obsessed with young women’s bodies.
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