Posted on 12/06/2007 11:14:36 AM PST by PercivalWalks
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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100% correct.
She’s a size TWO for chrissakes! She’s 5’2 so I’d estimate she weighs about 120, give or take a few. That’s in NO WAY fat at all...what’s with these people?
Notice how the Beach Grass from the area where the photographer was told to shoot, conveniently covers up the cankles? Talk about pre-planned.
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is well-known for her television and film roles in the Fox television series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS television series Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who communicates with the dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Love_Hewitt
sure hope Hillary’s balls don’t fall out of that bathing suit.
It’s a burka campaign; basically, even though the philosophy is different from Islam, the ends are the same - unless we deem you acceptable, don’t you dare uncover yourself in public.
I know many women who will never go to a beach again, because they never want to be seen in a swimsuit - not because they are fat, but because they are no longer PERFECT. I am one of them. I would rather never be seen uncovered in public again than run the risk that some man, somewhere, might think me offensive merely by the fact that I am not 18 and anorexic.
I know it’s overly sensitive, but it only takes one comment to make a woman wish she had never had the audacity to enjoy the sun and sand like the “beautiful people” do. Cover up, from head to toe, ye wizened 26-year old hag, that ye may not block the view of the anorexic 18-year-old for the fat middle-aged guy in a speedo!!
For some reason, I don’t fathom why, middle-aged fat guys in speedos are exempt from any introspection regarding *their* appearance...
I'm just a little creeped out by men that find that attractive. As to Jenny L-H: I'd wreck that chick...8P
It’s comic that as Americans get fatter the concept of what is “fat” gets slimmer than ever. Hewitt looks good in that photo, a normal healthy young girl. You’re doing alright if that photo falls on your “unflattering” pile.
She’s not a size 2. Not even close. Not even with today’s “vanity sizing”. She’s probably a size 10. There’s absolutely NOTHING wrong with being a 10 or 12. But I keep reading that quote of hers, about how a “size 2 is not fat”...and I can’t figure out what that has to do with her - a size 2 is very small and while she may be petite at 5’2”, she isn’t “size 2” small. I know sizes, I know fashion, I know clothes. I’m a woman. :)
I call them "Standard Issue Blondes".
Exactly, every time I read a "She's a cow!" post or "What a fat sow!" post, I KNOW that guy thinks he looks like Gerard Butler in 300 instead of what he looks like--- A butler who weighs 300.
Well what do I know.
Either way she’s not fat. Not at ALL.
Perhaps she was speaking in hyperbole or something? I dunno.
My favorite phrase was always “like a screen door in a hurricane...”
LOL!
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