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I’ve not been a big fan of Jennifer Love Hewitt — until recently.
She seemed too perky. Too smiley. Too giggly. Too much.
The tabloids have thought the young actress was too much as well. Pictures of her in a black bikini on the beaches of Hawaii have been making the rounds, making fun of her curvy figure with such headlines as “I Know What You Ate Last Summer — Everything.”
Hewitt has taken to her Web site to defend herself:
“Like all women out there should, I love my body,” 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.”
Amen, sister.
Every time a celebrity gets caught in a “gotcha” type of photo, women seem to rally around her. We enjoy the proof that celebrities aren’t perfect, even though airbrushing would have us believe otherwise. We talk about how women should accept themselves. How we need to be good role models.
And then we look in the mirror.
We’re good at talking the talk. Not so good at living with our wiggly-sometimes-jiggly walk.
What we need isn’t just self acceptance. We need cellulite acceptance.
Why can’t cellulite have a better agent? Look around. It’s not such an unusual phenomenon.
You don’t have to be overweight to have cellulite. You can be thin and muscular and have it — it’s largely genetic. Yet women spend millions of dollars each year on cellulite creams, potions and surgery in the hopes of the dimples disappearing.
All it would take is a few of the right celebrities to make cellulite the must-have accessory. Look at what women have done in the past and continue to do.
Girdles, corsets, foot binding, dying, plucking, waxing, baking ourselves — all depending on what we’re told we should look like.
After saying how women should be proud of their curves, Hewitt writes, “A size 2 is not fat! Nor will it ever be. And being a size 0 doesn’t make you beautiful. … To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini — put it on and stay strong.”
If indeed we are supposed to be so proud of the bodies we have, why is Hewitt volunteering she’s a size 2?
Hewitt can talk the proud body talk as much as she wants, but I’m going to guess that she wishes she only had dimples on her face.
Guess celebrities aren’t really that different from us after all.
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The Ricker wrote on Dec 21, 2007 8:55 AM: