Jennifer Love Hewitt Slams Sexualization of Her Younger Self

Dec 20, 2023 23:41


Jennifer Love Hewitt wants to stop being compared to her her 20-year-old self. She slams being sexualized as a young adult: https://t.co/ohGUa1VIKo
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- E! News (@enews) December 20, 2023
Jennifer Love Hewitt, 44, wants you to stop comparing her to her 20-year-old self ( Read more... )

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tetrazzinichikn December 21 2023, 02:31:21 UTC
Well taken, but “I was 17 years old on the cover of Maxim, and I had no idea why."

Girl please.

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aliceofclubs December 21 2023, 03:10:08 UTC
same. there's a natural level of naivete, and there's b.s. you didn't grow up under a rock Jennifer.

Heartbreakers worked bc of her and Jason Lee. Jennifer Aniston (who was the one they originally wanted) just couldnt pull off the same level of sexy pretend innocence.

I don't get the casting of Sigourney Weaver at all...oh well.

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sarahvma December 21 2023, 03:13:34 UTC
She was 22 in Heartbreakers.

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aliceofclubs December 21 2023, 03:32:44 UTC
...and?

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sarahvma December 21 2023, 03:35:11 UTC
And so I have no idea why you’re bringing it up when she’s talking about an incident from five years earlier.

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aliceofclubs December 21 2023, 03:38:43 UTC
because she also talks about being directed to be sexy in the film Heartbreakers. She did it well.

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sarahvma December 21 2023, 03:42:12 UTC
So in your mind she was a temptress who had full control of her sexuality and allure at a young age and she’s lying about it now… why?

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aliceofclubs December 22 2023, 03:04:03 UTC
why are you making this complicated. You can act angsty or cruel or shy or whatever, without having those traits irl. Stop overthinking it.

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sarahvma December 22 2023, 20:46:34 UTC
No, I'm going to keep using my brain. Best of luck with whatever's happening to yours.

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richyrich909 December 21 2023, 06:44:30 UTC
I’ll break it down to try to make sense of it. While a majority of people may think you’re a certain way….it doesn’t mean that you believe that in yourself. And in a world where you’re quite literally directed to do everything and you’re not consuming the mainstream media like normal people who aren’t the mainstream media, then I can easily see how she didn’t know what they meant by “being sexy”. She explained she wasn’t mentally developed or comfortable in her own body. She did it well because she’s an actress and her job is to sell a role.

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iamkeroberos December 21 2023, 08:23:34 UTC
Literally

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aliceofclubs December 21 2023, 03:12:57 UTC
Also for Ghost Whisperer and the call girl show she did... like, you were a grown ass woman then. you made your boobs your selling point.

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sarahvma December 21 2023, 03:17:07 UTC
She was 26 when that show started. Her point isn’t that she never felt sexy, but rather that as an underage girl who couldn’t consent to sex with older men, so she also shouldn’t have been sold as jerkoff material to those same men.

That’s not really a complex or controversial idea.

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aliceofclubs December 21 2023, 03:33:45 UTC
You're right, she shouldn't have been

My point is that it's a bit absurd to say you didn't know what "sexy" means.

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sarahvma December 21 2023, 03:36:21 UTC
I think a 17 year old’s concept of sexy doesn’t and shouldn’t include knowing why 40 year old men want to beat off to them.

They’re still children, and they should be able to explore sexuality safely. This ain’t that.

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babyyoda December 21 2023, 05:02:05 UTC
I am her age and tbh at age 17 I don’t think I knew half of what sexiness really encompasses I only knew what boys wanted or expected and felt pressured to deliver that

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