Feminists are up in arms over the “Jennifer Love Hewitt looks fat in a bikini” controversy, and I’m inclined to agree with them. TMZ.com recently ran a photo of Hewitt in a bikini (above left) with the observation ”We know what you ate this summer, Love–everything!” Hewitt fired back at critics who poked fun at her bikini body, saying:
“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 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. What I should be doing is celebrating some of the best days of my life and my engagement to the man of my dreams, instead of having to deal with photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles. To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini - put it on and stay strong.”
The prominent feminist blog Feminist writes:
“Hewitt had the audacity to appear in public in a bikini while also in possession of a body that hadn’t been dieted and exercised down to nothing or airbrushed to smooth perfection…I’m very pleased that she recognizes that fat-shaming is designed to keep women in line.”
A few observations:
1) As Hewitt notes, it’s not the most flattering picture, but as a whole Hewitt still looks damn good to me. I can see why women would think “If even that’s too fat, what hope is there for the rest of us?” There is such a thing as fat and unattractive, but this ain’t it.
2) The photo above right is an example of what I don’t like–the Auschwitz look. The blond woman in green at the bottom of the photo looks like she hasn’t eaten in weeks. I never understand why so many people want to do away with women with womanly curves and replace them with women with skinny, 15 year-old boy bodies. My wife says it’s because fashion designers can design clothes easier for women with flat bodies that aren’t curvaceous.
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Maybe it’s just me but what is the problem with girls becomming women. It’s called growing up people.
Kandyman
If she is so fat, and unattractive, why was she voted sexiest women on t.v, or best breasts and I doubt maxim would want such a ugly person to embrace their cover not once or twice, 3 times?
Its not possible to look perfect all the time, and whose to say she or anyone else doesn’t. We all have our own opinions, but its not right just to be mean, make a cheap buck off someone else’s expense. And besides ‘the lights are on, and someone is home’, she’s lovely inside and out, which is maybe why she’s always hosting the emmys, and award shows? a genuinely friendly, kind, beautiful person?
And at the time, I bet she felt pretty beautiful having fun with someone who loved her, even in the bikini.
I think she’s amazing, and definitely an inspiration for me, a 15 yr old whose constantly judged by ’size 0 lovers’.
Plus ghost whisperer rox !
Bloody hell, I am dieting down and I’d love to look as “bad” as that! Have people forgotten what a fit and healthy woman looks like who hasn’t succumbed to the lipo cannula?
I am starting to despair - I have slimmed down to a UK16 which was still wrong side of the border of plus sized about 10 years ago (I have only just learnt this is hopelessly out of date), and now I am being told “hmmn - UK12 is the new plus size”.
It’s been bloody difficult to get down to what was a “socially normal” size only to discover that it is NOT ENOUGH! I am officially still a manatee!
There is no way that she is anywhere near a UK12, and people complain about that?
When I was a child I had the notion that women were supposed to weigh no more than half the weight of a man - sadly that notion is now becoming a reality. :o(
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