Ooo, retro!
Seems like a good week for women in Hollywood to speak out against sexism: first Katherine Heigl and now Jennifer Love Hewitt.
On her blog, in response to some allegedly unflattering photos of her that were posted on the internet, Hewitt (or is it Love Hewitt?) said:
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 2 is not fat! Nor will it ever be. And being a size 0 doesn’t make you beautiful…
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.
I thought it was particularly nice that she says she’s upset on behalf of all of us. Go sisterhood!
Now, when is Britney going to tell the media off?
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I love that you posted about this. Jezebel.com had a hilarious take on the (CNN! Fox News! MSNBC!) media storm that was those bikini photos and JLH's response:
"I really can't fault the news media: aside from the war and the mortgage crisis and the oil crisis and the twelve billion wars preoccupying Africa right now, what is there really going on besides Jennifer Love Hewitt's blog entry addressing the subject of her ass?"
Posted by Stacey May
December 5, 2007, 5:21 PM
Jezebel also says "Why why why are we still calling it "empowering" when a woman makes her weight fluctuations into a career? Is the American populace so ignorant and dumbed down that the only thing that can keep their attention is the process by which the consumption of more calories results in more body weight and vice versa? No but really truly?"
Yeah, of course, I know there is a real beating heart inside JLH and I hope she can feel good about herself, but beyond a general goodwill t'ward women, I don't give a rat's patootie about JLH.
Every 10 seconds she's trying to get me to buy Hanes or Neutrogena by flirting around in her underwear.
I can't block out the message sent by her size 2 body presented in those product endorsements AND proudly absorb what she supposedly says on her blog. And really, it's not a blog. It's more like the "re-launched cyber interface platform of the transnational JLH brand's fan support division." Or whatever.
I don't want celebrities to be the marker for where my body image sits. Ever. I can't let myself be influenced by their skinny minny smiley soap endorsements or their frumpy frolicks on the beach. I want to be inspried by real people in my real life. And even then...
(Wow. I had no idea I had such contempt for JLH. Maybe I'm still crushing on Bailey from Po5, or ticked off that she stole 10 minutes of my life when I actually tried to give Ghost Whisperer a chance.)
Posted by Erin
December 6, 2007, 10:26 AM
She omitted something...size 0 girls aren't neccessarilly not beautiful! Skinny girls get a bad rap. They get blamed for other girls' eating disorders, but eating disorders are rarely about looks. Sometimes skinny girls don't like being skinny! Beleive me, I used to be underweight and I'm still quite thin, I know what it's like.
Posted by Sexy Sadie
January 3, 2008, 5:53 PM
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