Jennifer Love Hewitt: "A size 2 is not fat!"

by Jacki Donaldson (Subscribe to Jacki Donaldson's posts)
Dec 4th 2007 9:00AM

Categories: Fitness, Celebs & Entertainment

Martha told us recently about news reports claiming Jennifer Love Hewitt is packing on the pounds. By Hollywood standards, maybe putting on a few pounds constitutes packing it on. By my standards, though, Hewitt is still one fit-looking gal. And most important, the actress says she's fine with how she looks.

"Like all women out there should, I love my body," says the newly-engaged 28-year-old. "I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family."

It's not easy managing all the media attention, though.

"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."

Finally, this Ghost Whisperer star declares: "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."

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H.Perry 12-05-2007 @ 7:15AM

Hi Jennifer. I think you look fantastic, and good for you for puting the media straight. You are NOT fat. I am sick and tired of seeing 85 lb women. It is so inane that a size 2 or even a size 6 for that matter is looked upon as being overweight. Marilyn Monroe was a size 14-16 and considered one of our all time beauties. Apparently our parents and grandparents were the only ones smart enough to know a beautiful body when they saw one.
You keep up the great work with your tv show, and remember you are beautiful just as you are.

Regards Heather P

Rosamalia 12-06-2007 @ 12:35AM

Hi Heather,

Actually Marilyn was a 12 (close enough!), but yes, you're on the right track, in the past hollywood certainly wasn't so obsessed with people being stick-thin. Yes, there was Grace Kelly, and yes, there was Audrey Hepburn (two women who obviously were naturally thin and didn't starve themselves) but there was also Kim Novak, and Jayne Mansfield! They were widely loved beauties, admired for their curves! Wish we today would realize that beauty doesn't have a number!!!!

Alejandro 12-05-2007 @ 2:51PM

Jennifer, you are a TOTAL GODDESS!! Where I was born, men live and die for women that look like you (Colombia, South America). We like women that are built like women, not pre-adolescent boys. Curves, plenty in the right places, beautiful hair, angelic face, even pretty feet...Noone in Hollywood right now is as completely delicious from head to toe as you are!! You're gorgeous.

muchacha 12-09-2007 @ 11:27PM

I agree with you people! I'm tired of people putting a certain weight and a certain size to beauty. There are gorgeous thin women aswell as gorgeous curvy women and neither is better or worse. Neither of the two is more healthy, either, because there are people who are born thin and people who are born curvy.
So stop associating anorexia with thin and obesity with curvy, cause in the end...noone's good enough. -_-

T 12-11-2007 @ 5:57PM

I think Jennifer is a beautiful woman and she should be proud and confident in herself and her curvy figure. But, I'm sorry, to say she is a size 2 is a flat out lie. There is no way her curves could fit into a size 2 pair of jeans.

FormerlyObese 1-01-2008 @ 9:08PM

Size 2...that's what I said!
Where the heck does she shop? She DOES look good, though.

Danielle 12-12-2007 @ 7:23PM

Anyone ever paid attention to how vastly different jeans sizes are to dress sizes? Or even to how jeans from different companies and in different cuts can vary up to 2 sizes what a woman wears?

Case in point my jeans size 16 and 14, my wedding dress size 12!

I have a friend who always states her size in terms of the smallest pair of jeans she can fit into in any brand... often making her sound smaller than she is. I tend to do the opposite, stating my size in the pair of jeans I feel the most comfortable in and I like my pants roomy.

Womens sizes are just screwed up in general and change from decade to decade as well! I think most women like it that way because then they can fudge a little here and there and no one can prove them wrong.

I don't have any reason to to believe JLH is lying, and I don't tell my friend she is wrong when she says she can fit into a size 12.

Speaking of size 12, the last poster is mostly right when they say Marilyn was not a size 16. Articles I found online pointed out that most of her dresses were custom made and that a size 12 back then does not = a size 12 now. Not to mention that the range of her weight and measurements are over her entire lifetime. At her heaviest they estimate she was a size 12 measured in sizes of her day.

Paul 12-12-2007 @ 8:25PM

I appreciate Muchacha's balanced comment. I read this blog regularly and I've noticed that whenever the subject is weight the posts usually turns into a bunch of jabs against slender women, usually calling them anorexic or bulimic..and if of course if anyone says anything critical about overweight women...don't you dare.