Jennifer Love Hewitt calls out Hollywood talk show hosts for creepy jokes about her breasts when she was 16
Jennifer Love Hewitt calls out Hollywood talk show hosts for creepy jokes about her breasts when she was 16
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Jennifer Love Hewitt was just 18 when her breakthrough film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, was released. 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.
![[Speaking on Mayim Bialik 's podcast, Breakdown , Hewitt slammed Hollywood for obsessing over her breasts when she was just 16-years-old]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/30/04/94666157-14340807-image-a-2_1738210860652.jpg)
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.
![[Hewitt with co-stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe in the 1997 film]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/30/03/94666031-14340807-image-a-2_1738208615069.jpg)
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.
![[Hewitt pictured on The Jennifer Hudson Show last month]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/30/04/94666023-14340807-image-a-4_1738210883775.jpg)
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.'".
