A few months ago I was thrilled when I saw Jennifer Love Hewitt with her Hanes commercials. She was sporting a more mature figure and although she had gotten rude comments of how she was “fat” now, she seemed proud of her own skin and comfortable enough to show it off.
Then I was on Yahoo! a few days ago and I saw an article that highlighted how the actress got down to a “slimmer look”. Basically what I saw was that she went from looking like a grown woman to back when she was a teen actress and doing those “I Know What You Did Last Summer” movies. Can I just say that I hate the way magazines plaster the number of pounds the celeb has lost as though each pound were a gold medal. 18LBS!!! WOW!! Then, there always comes the inevitable, “How you can do it too!”. I’m just confused as to how they think celebrity weight loss is some mystery secret. Over exercising and under-eating isn’t such a mystery secret. Jen if you’re out there, there was nothing wrong with you before, you were perfect the way you were!
As much as I think it’s ok to lose/gain weight if you want (cuz both sides of will judge you and project their interpretations no matter what your intentions or reasons are) I find more fault with the tabloid in this pic than Jennifer. Notice the smiling pic when she’s thinner contrasted with the melancholy pic when she’s a lil thicker. When they ask what came first the chicken or the egg in the media portrayal of thin vs. the “thin” people portrayed in the media. I think the media takes the cake.
Is that her real head? It looks like it was attached as an afterthought.
This is so unfortunate. She must have been so ridiculed to the point that she may have felt she really was “fat”. Then she decided to loose the weight so those evil magazines could let her live her life. Now, she’s a success story because then she was fat and unhealthly and now she’s thin and healthy again, that’s BOGUS! This pressure is beyond me and it’s so sad.
Either way she looks fine; I just hate to think she’s having to deprive herself of nutrition to look like the picture on the left.
If she always looked that way, effortlessly, then good for her, I know plenty of women who eat well and move their bodies in a healthy way that naturally look like Jen on the left. What bothers me is that for whatever reason, people couldn’t accept Jen on the right.
I think they’ve also sensationalized the weight loss… this all probably didn’t happen in “just 10 weeks”… didn’t those pictures show up before that?
I think this kind of belongs on photoshop disasters. Because her ribcage. It is only as wide as her skull.
AND she can’t act. She relies all on her boobs. And because she lost weight, they’ve gotten smaller. Great. Now she’s got nuthin’.
Hey man…I’ll stand up for the “Ghost Whisperer” any day of the week. (*heehee! a guilty pleasure of a show for me)
JLH you are one fine woman. I never thought I’d say it, but if she’s getting attacked or deified for her body and bodily changes, well than, leave that alone, buddy!
Who’s to say how OLD either one of those pictures are…?
And sadly, sugarleigh…they are sometimes called ‘lollipops’ ~ women whose skinny, tiny frames seem like sticks under a lollipop head.
Poor Ghost Whisperer….maybe she’s just on the thin part of some personal cycle and all the papers said, “hey! weight loss! let’s run with THAT!”
Do you see a light, JLH…? Look around…go toward the LIGHT….and Eat A Cheeseburger!!
To address the weird head comments, I just want to add that magazine often photoshop actresses necks to make them longer, thinner, and have no lines. Unphotoshopped necks have lines.
As for J Love’s weight loss, it may very well have had nothing to do with her own insecurities and a lot to do with job security. There are tons of stories about actresses being denied roles or threatened with termination because they are too heavy. In order to work, they have to starve themselves.
I hate it when that happens. My biggest dissapointment was Missy Elliot. Especially when she said she was doing it for health. I mean please at least be honest about it. At least thats worth semi respect.
I think the whole smiling vs. not smiling thing Taydizzle mentioned is worth looking at further. Consider that in the right picture, Jen’s hair isn’t done up, she’s not standing up straight, the light isn’t directed on her body, and she’s wearing a slightly baggy t-shirt with black pants (as opposd to a stylish dress). The fact that the picture on the right is so much smaller also makes it difficult to compare. The magazine editors could have just as easily photo-shopped that image to make Jen look worse as they did in the left pic to make her look better.
I think Queen Latifah was more of a sellout than Missy….
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The thing I’m wondering about is, even though we all know that weight-loss or gain is not headline news, we still care. why??
Any one of the women mentioned with this post – JLH, Missy, Queen Latifah, let’s think Kirstie Alley, Nicole Ritchie, Anna Nicole Smith – and any one of us reading this right now – ALL have fluctuations, gain-and-loss cycles, and life events (birth, death, crop failure, flood, fire) that may or may not influence the change in our physicalities.
If you’re depressed about getting divorced, you might put on a couple pounds. Or stop eating.
I’m saying who cares if Jenny Love is thin or fat right now?
All things change.
And years from now we can talk about how young they either still look or don’t look.
“I think this kind of belongs on photoshop disasters. Because her ribcage. It is only as wide as her skull.”
Right. I’m not buying it either. I’ve got a really similar figure to hers, and even when I was on starvation diet, my boobs didn’t get that small.