Jennifer Love Hewitt slams talk show hosts for jokes about her breasts
Initially, Hewitt said she laughed along when jokes about her breasts were made, and didn't dawn on her just how inappropriate it was that a 'grown man' was talking with her about her body on TV.
Jennifer Love Hewitt was just 18 when her breakthrough film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, was released.Â
But the actress quickly found the public was more interested in talking about her body rather than her work.
Now, at age 45, Hewitt is hitting back at the culture that allowed for her to be sexualized at such a young age.Â
Speaking on Mayim Bialik's podcast, Breakdown, Hewitt recalled just how inappropriate it was being asked at age 16 about her breasts by 'grown men' on TV.
Initially, Hewitt said she laughed along when jokes about her body were made, but it wasn't until she was an adult that she realized just how unacceptable the situation was.Â
Looking back at her early career, she said: 'In my 30s, I sort of went back and looked at that time again and I was like, "Oh my God. There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts just openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it." I don't even remember that, I really didn't take that part in, but in hindsight it was really strange I think to become a sex symbol sort of for people before I even knew what that was.Â
Jennifer Love Hewitt is slamming the public's obsession with her breasts as a teenager following her breakthrough role on I Know What You Did Last Summer; pictured on the 1997 film
'Like I didn't even know what sexy meant and I was on the cover of Maxim magazines, and people would openly walk up and be like, "I took your magazine with me on a trip last week.'"
Hewitt said she would laugh along but admitted, 'I didn’t know what that meant, you know what I mean? It’s kind of gross.'
'So, I think later it sort of hit me more, kind of the things that I probably went through somewhere. But at the time, it felt very innocent and exciting and fun,' she continued.
'So I'm thankful for that. Had I taken on some of that earlier, I think it would have messed with me a little bit, but it didn't for whatever reason,' she said.Â
Hewitt said a 'light bulb' went off after she watched the Britney Spears documentary, and the reality of the attention she faced as a teenager suddenly hit her.Â
'When I watched the Britney Spears documentary, that was really honestly the light bulb for me. When I watched it, I finished watching it, and my husband was like, "Why do you look so disturbed?" I was like, "I know what that feels like." I know sitting there and being asked those questions and it never dawned on me that it was inappropriate.'
Hewitt recalled even wearing a shirt that said 'Silicon Free' during the press tour for I Know What You Did Last Summer, with her body then the butt of the joke.Â
'When I Know What You Did Last Summer came out I went to Australia and I wore a T-shirt that said "Silicon Free" on it for the press junket because after the movie came out, everybody said, "Oh I know what your breasts did last summer" and that was like the joke.'
She recalled how 'everybody' would laugh at the jokes, which in turn made her laugh. Â
'Again, everybody would laugh, and so I would laugh, 'cause it was supposed to be funny, I guess. It didn't register with me that this was a grown man, talking about my breasts on national television,' she said.
Speaking on Mayim Bialik 's podcast, Breakdown , Hewitt slammed Hollywood for obsessing over her breasts when she was just 16-years-old
Hewitt added she didn't 'blame' those who asked the questions at the time as the culture made it acceptable. Â
'By the way, I don't blame them for asking the questions or making the jokes or doing it. It was a culture that was fully accepted. They were allowed to believe that that was appropriate, I answered the questions, laughed right along.Â
'I give no problem with them for doing it. But when you sit and you look at where we are now versus then, it's really mind-blowing.'
Hewitt played Julie James in the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer and the 1998 sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Hewitt with co-stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe in the 1997 film
She will be reprising her role in the upcoming sequel, which does not yet have a title.
It's not the first time Hewitt has addressed being sexualized at a young age.
She previously discussed modeling for Maxim at age 17 during an appearance on the Inside of You podcast in 2023, insisting she didn't even know why she had landed the cover.Â
'I didn’t feel self-confident. I felt watched. I felt like I had to be everything for everybody all the time,' Hewitt said. 'I was called sexy before I ever knew what being sexy was. I was 17 years old on the cover of Maxim, and I had no idea why I was on the cover of Maxim. I was honored. I loved it. But why?'
Hewitt pictured on The Jennifer Hudson Show last month
While filming Heartbreakers at 23, Hewitt recalled struggling to follow a director's instructions to 'be sexier'.Â
'I remember doing Heartbreakers at 23 and the director was like, "We just need you to be sexier." I had to pull him aside and be like, "I don’t know what that means. I’m only 23."
'I know that I’m supposed to be this thing for people but I don’t know what that means. He had to like help me figure that out.'
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