
Jennifer Love Hewitt Opens Up About Being Sexualized by Older Men at 16
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Jennifer Love Hewitt shared her experiences of being sexualized by older men when she was just a teenager, looking back on the industry standards from when she was 16. During her chat on Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast, the 45-year-old admitted that she didn’t fully understand some of the “gross” comments that men would make about her.
Jennifer Love Hewitt discusses being sexualized by older men as a teenager
At 16, I had grown men chatting with me about my breasts on a talk show, and everyone was laughing. It was just the norm back then, but looking back now, it’s pretty shocking, Hewitt shared.
The Ghost Whisperer star mentioned it felt “really weird” to be seen as a sex symbol before she even understood what that meant. “I had no clue what being sexy was,” she added. Hewitt kicked off her Hollywood journey as a child actress in commercials and became famous for her role as Julie James in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
She also noted that guys would come up to her and make sexual comments about her 1999 Maxim cover when she was just 17. “People would just walk up and say, ‘I took your magazine on vacation last week,’” she recalled.
“I didn’t really get what that meant,” Hewitt said, adding, “It’s kind of gross.” She pointed out that jokes about her breasts became more frequent after her breakout role in the 1997 horror flick. “When the movie came out, everyone would say, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’ and that was the punchline,” she explained.
“And everyone would laugh, so I laughed too. It was supposed to be funny, I guess. I didn’t really think about the fact that a grown man was talking to me about my breasts on national TV,” Hewitt confessed. Still, she doesn’t hold it against them since “it was just the way things were back then.”
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