It shouldn’t need to be stated, however, simply as a reminder — intercourse symbols are individuals too.
Jennifer Love Hewitt revealed to Vulture in a current profile that she nonetheless hasn’t “recovered” from a serious id disaster she had within the early aughts.
The “I Know What You Did Last Summer” star rose to fame in 1995 on the age of 15 when she scored a job on the hit TV sequence, “Party of Five.” Regardless of Hewitt being a young person, she was immediately objectified.
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“Before I even knew what sex was, I was a sex symbol,” Hewitt instructed Vulture. “I still don’t know that I have that fully defined for myself because it started so weird.”
The “9-1-1” star admitted to the outlet that she leaned into her sexpot persona for the sake of her profession, however she by no means actually gelled with it. She described herself a number of occasions within the profile as “goofy.”
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But, Hewitt’s sense of self bought flipped the other way up in 2007 when she determined to take a trip to Hawaii along with her then-fiancé Ross McCall. The pair spent a day frolicking on the seashore, and the following morning Hewitt acquired a impolite awakening. Folks journal ran the images of Hewitt on the seashore with McCall as a canopy story with the headline, “Stop Calling Me Fat!”
The “Can’t Hardly Wait” star stated the expertise was shattering.
“I don’t think I was ever really insecure until that cover. And then when it happened, I don’t know that I’ve ever recovered from it,” Hewitt stated. “Because there’s a part of me that’s always like, Is this version going to be good enough, or is that going to happen again? Where somebody’s going to be like, ‘Hey, this is her without makeup at the cleaners. She looks 59.’”
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Hewitt’s ache went deeper than mere vainness. She heartbreakingly described to Vulture what she was considering when these “unflattering” images of her had been shot.
“I was having the time of my life,” Hewitt stated. “I had made up the dumbest song about eating snacks and playing in the ocean, and I was singing it to my boyfriend out loud, doing some weird dance move, and they got the picture and then it was on the cover.”
Hewitt went on to pinpoint why this incident affected her so profoundly.
“Because that was me,” she confessed to Vulture in regards to the candid paparazzi images. “I think that’s why the insecurity carried on. I don’t know if I’ve even ever put that together for myself other than right now.”
“I think I was like, ′Oh, my God, I was myself one time, and this is what happened,’” she stated.
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This isn’t the primary time Hewitt has expressed her frustrations along with her look overshadowing her true self.
Earlier this 12 months, she described the “gross” suggestions she bought from the general public after she starred within the first “I Know What You Did Last Summer” movie in 1997.
“Eeverybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’” Hewitt defined on an episode of “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown.” Hewitt additionally instructed Bialik that she was aggravated by the unique movie’s advertising as effectively.
“I was so mad that I had done my first movie and worked so hard, and the only thing that you see is a movie poster with boobs on it,” she stated.
Hewitt instructed Vulture that her present position on “9-1-1” is the primary time since her “Party of Five” days that audiences are literally invested in her efficiency, relatively than her physique.
“It was the work and then it was the body. And not the body of work,” Hewitt stated. “Now we’re getting back to the work part of it.”
