Jennifer Love Hewitt has been making quite a splash lately, ever since she was photographed in a bikini on the beach and the media began ridiculing her supposed weight gain. The Ghost Whisperer actress set the record straight in her November 29 "bikini blog post" when she declared her frustration over the scrutiny given to women and weight.

Hewitt has inspired other celebrities to show their solidarity. Here's what some of them have to say.

Model Petra Nemcova says, "There are different angles that everybody, even if you're in great shape, can look bad in a photograph. And printing these images is definitely influencing people's minds -- the stars themselves, but also the people who are reading and looking at the images, the teenagers. It's definitely good that she spoke out."

Rosario Dawson says, "They'll make a whole story about it if someone gains 5 lbs. ... I think there is a huge obsession with size-zero jeans, and it's just really scary. I don't really know where that comes from. We're not really in the Twiggy era anymore. It makes me really nervous, because I don't know how in the world we're supposed to be that thin unless we're totally starving and drugging up."

And Anne Hathaway says, "[As an actress], most of the year, your body is your own. But to be ridiculed for it is upsetting. But to also have to defend it or explain it or rejoice in it or put it down, or to be expected to have a public opinion about it ... I don't understand when that happened. I don't think women should only be defined by their bodies and their weight. It's a cycle we've been in for some time, and I don't really like it."

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