“Gross”: Jennifer Love Hewitt Breaks Silence On “Grown Men” Joking About Her Breasts At 16 – Bored Panda
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Expect to receive your first email very soon! 11 28Link copied!ShareLink copied!ShareJennifer Love Hewitt reflected on the inappropriate comments directed at her when she was sixteen.The actress, now 45, landed her breakout role in the 1995 teen drama Party Of Five and rose to fame after starring in 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer.Jennifer opened up about the negative consequences of being in the spotlight as a teen during an episode of Dr. Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast.Image credits: Vinnie Zuffante/Getty ImagesShare iconImage credits: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images“There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it,” she shared on Tuesday (January 28).“It was a culture that was fully accepted, but when you sit, and you look at where we are now versus then, it is really mind-blowing.“In hindsight, it was really strange, I think, to become a sex symbol before I even knew what that was. I didn’t know what being sexy meant.”Share iconImage credits: Dr. Mayim BialikJokes about her breasts became normalized after she starred in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jennifer shared.At the time, she didn’t stop to think whether the jokes were appropriate. She went along with them because no one around her seemed to question it either.“When the movie came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’ and that was, like, the joke.“And, again, everybody would laugh, so I would laugh. It was supposed to be funny, I guess.“It didn’t register with me that this is a grown man talking to me about my breasts on national television.”Share iconImage credits: Dr. Mayim BialikJennifer said she found it upsetting that people were constantly commenting on her body instead of focusing on her acting skills.“I had worked so hard trying to be good in a horror movie, and I really wanted people to walk away from the movie going, ‘That’s a really good actress.’ “And instead, every headline — and I’m not even joking — for 10 or 12 years after that, it was always about my breasts, always first…That was heartbreaking for me.”Share iconImage credits: Dr. Mayim BialikThe Client List star further revealed that she wore oversized clothes to hide her figure because she felt “embarrassed” by men looking at her curves.“I had bigger boobs for a smaller person, and so it was embarrassing. I didn’t want to be looked at by a 40-year-old in Pizza Hut.”Despite the discomfort these jokes bring to her now, Jennifer said she doesn’t “blame” those who commented on her body.“It was a culture that was fully accepted. They were allowed to believe that that was appropriate, and I answered the questions and laughed right along with them.”Share iconImage credits: IMDBShe especially remembers when men she didn’t know approached her after she appeared on the cover of Maxim at 17.“People would openly walk up and be like, ‘I took your magazine with me on a trip last week,’” she said. “I didn’t really know what that meant. It’s kind of gross.”The mom of three previously spoke about her imposed sex symbol status—her “narrative” as an actress—in a 2018 interview with Elle.“I think when you start [in Hollywood] younger, the narrative takes off without you. And you kind of go, ‘Oh, okay…so I’m that person? Great!’ Before I ever knew in my life what ‘sexy’ was, I was on the sexy list.”Share iconImage credits: Jennifer Love HewittJennifer began acting when she was 10 on the Disney Channel show Kids Incorporated. In addition to acting, she has released four albums, the most recent of which came out in 2002, and served as a producer on some of her films and TV series.The Golden Globe nominee is set to reprise her role in a new I Know What You Did Last Summer film, reuniting with her former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. The movie is scheduled for release on July 18, 2025.By entering your email and clicking Subscribe, you’re agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our Privacy Policy. Thank you! You’ve successfully subscribed to newsletters!Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! 11 28 11 28Link copied!ShareLink copied!Share Author, BoredPanda staff Marina is a journalist at Bored Panda. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she holds a Bachelor of Social Science. In her spare time, you can find her baking, reading, or watching documentaries. Her main areas of interest are pop culture, literature, and education. Author, BoredPanda staff Marina is a journalist at Bored Panda. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she holds a Bachelor of Social Science. In her spare time, you can find her baking, reading, or watching documentaries. Her main areas of interest are pop culture, literature, and education. Please stop posting this sort of nonsense, BP. What happened to “Bored Panda’s mission is to spread good news and highlight top artists from around the world.” ?That site died 6months ago, BP is now basically just a bump between reddit and 4chan.Are you sure that’s her? The last pic doesn’t look anything like her.I agree, that last picture doesn’t resemble the Jennifer Love, that I remember, in the slightest.Men of all ages, up to their 60’s, were oogling me and sticking their hand up my skirt before I was even 5yrs old. Most men are pigs, and a lot more of them are interested in little girls than everyone wants to admit.It’s only a *tiny* minority of men who “ogle” (etc) four year olds. If you were having that done to you by much more than one person, I suspect your parents had chosen to expose you to perverts.I suppose the men need to learn how to respect young girls and keep their thoughts to themselves.Diamond Star, the only sort of men who’d ogle and grope girls of 4 or 5 are the sort of men who have a serious problem and need to be kept away from all children. As I understand it, they can’t be taught to respect the girls – they need to be kept away from them and, if possible, supported (yes, really – such support programmes exist) so that they can avoid doing anything dreadful.(For those who misunderstand my point about supporting adults who are attracted to small children in order to help them avoid them doing anything dreadful, I mean stuff like this: https://stopso.org.uk/)I’m a man. I was once a little boy who obviously spent time around little girls. I noticed *LOTS* of things, but I’ve never come across the behaviour described. The fraction of men with a sexual interest in little girls really is tiny. I accept the truth of the report, but I can’t get my head round the idea of this being commonplace – in what sort of societies?More downvotes. Why? I accept the initial report, I present my experience. I’ve read thing and seen things, and of course I know that very young girls – boys too, don’t forget – get sexually abused – but I also know that the fraction of men overall with an interest in doing so to VERY young girls is very small. And so I wonder: how and where did this happen? I explain my experience, I ask questions – and then get downvotes rather than answers. I wish I understood.)This was at family gatherings, my school, out in public, at doctors offices….no they weren’t exposing me to anything, this is just the world little girls face. I wasn’t alone, a lot of friends finally admitted to me when they got older how much they’d been sexually abused by different men in their youth. It’s more prevalent than anyone wants to admit. I told this to the last guy I was dating, he brushed me off with “oh you’re just exaggerating, most men are very protective of women” then followed with a story about how he was at a party with a friend, and when they left and got home, they both looked at each other and realized a girl was likely left behind and being raped. Did they go back and get her? Check on her the next day? EVER see if she was ok? Nope, and he found nothing wrong with his story. Most people are oblivious because they don’t want to face the truth that the many victims are trying to scream about.I seek information. This is what I am curious about. When I was little, I was at family gatherings with young girls present as is totally normal. There was no “ogling” of four year old girls, no-one sticking their hand up anyone’s skirt. If anything like that *had* happened, the perpetrator would have been stopped instantly, expelled, and never permitted near young children ever again. I know my family. The same applied to the same family’s gatherings by the time the children had grown up, got married, and had brought their own little girls along. Shoving a hand up the skirt of a little girl is Just Plain Wrong and I’m absolutely certainly that none of my close living relatives has ever done it, and certainly never at a family gathering. So what sort of family gather permits this sort of thing to happen? I seek information. I suppose I’ll just get downvotes again… 😕My grandparents who raised me also did a lot of international travel, to the North America, South America, North Africa, Middle East, Central and South Europe….everywhere I went men were doing the same thing, oogling a f*cking 5yrs old and trying to get near me, grandma batted their leering hands away from me sometimes but didn’t catch them all.I know about girls being sexually abused. Boys too. And I don’t doubt your report. But I’m struggling to understand how you suffered like this from the age of four. Hardly any men have the sort of mind which would cause them to “ogle” a four year old in my experience. 14 years old is a different matter, but it being commonplace at four or five? My brain just keeps saying “Does not compute”.”In your experience”. As a man. You’re kind of making my point for me. As a man you don’t get it, understand it, can’t fathom it…..because you’re a man, and are only working on your own very limited experience. Men are like this in all corners of the world, all societies, all races, all creeds, all wealth levels. If there’s an opportunity, most men will take it, even if its entirely wrong and disgusting. This is the world women live in, which majority of men are ignorantly and blissfully unaware of because they “just can’t get their head around it”. I’m not trying to be douchy towards you and be argumentative, but, buddy, you gotta open your eyes more and go talk to more women. You’re very underinformed.Surly Scot, I know I don’t know everything, But I do know something about male sexuality, and I do know that “normal” men have no sexual attraction towards girls of four or five, and the fraction of those who have is very, very small. I have seen and heard things you might be surprised at and in any case I’m working on a lot more than my personal experience or what I’ve heard from those I’ve met personally, many of whom are women. That’s why I’m having trouble getting my head round your report – I don’t doubt it, but wow, how come?Please stop posting this sort of nonsense, BP. What happened to “Bored Panda’s mission is to spread good news and highlight top artists from around the world.” ?That site died 6months ago, BP is now basically just a bump between reddit and 4chan.Are you sure that’s her? The last pic doesn’t look anything like her.I agree, that last picture doesn’t resemble the Jennifer Love, that I remember, in the slightest.Men of all ages, up to their 60’s, were oogling me and sticking their hand up my skirt before I was even 5yrs old. Most men are pigs, and a lot more of them are interested in little girls than everyone wants to admit.It’s only a *tiny* minority of men who “ogle” (etc) four year olds. If you were having that done to you by much more than one person, I suspect your parents had chosen to expose you to perverts.I suppose the men need to learn how to respect young girls and keep their thoughts to themselves.Diamond Star, the only sort of men who’d ogle and grope girls of 4 or 5 are the sort of men who have a serious problem and need to be kept away from all children. As I understand it, they can’t be taught to respect the girls – they need to be kept away from them and, if possible, supported (yes, really – such support programmes exist) so that they can avoid doing anything dreadful.(For those who misunderstand my point about supporting adults who are attracted to small children in order to help them avoid them doing anything dreadful, I mean stuff like this: https://stopso.org.uk/)I’m a man. I was once a little boy who obviously spent time around little girls. I noticed *LOTS* of things, but I’ve never come across the behaviour described. The fraction of men with a sexual interest in little girls really is tiny. I accept the truth of the report, but I can’t get my head round the idea of this being commonplace – in what sort of societies?More downvotes. Why? I accept the initial report, I present my experience. I’ve read thing and seen things, and of course I know that very young girls – boys too, don’t forget – get sexually abused – but I also know that the fraction of men overall with an interest in doing so to VERY young girls is very small. And so I wonder: how and where did this happen? I explain my experience, I ask questions – and then get downvotes rather than answers. I wish I understood.)This was at family gatherings, my school, out in public, at doctors offices….no they weren’t exposing me to anything, this is just the world little girls face. I wasn’t alone, a lot of friends finally admitted to me when they got older how much they’d been sexually abused by different men in their youth. It’s more prevalent than anyone wants to admit. I told this to the last guy I was dating, he brushed me off with “oh you’re just exaggerating, most men are very protective of women” then followed with a story about how he was at a party with a friend, and when they left and got home, they both looked at each other and realized a girl was likely left behind and being raped. Did they go back and get her? Check on her the next day? EVER see if she was ok? Nope, and he found nothing wrong with his story. Most people are oblivious because they don’t want to face the truth that the many victims are trying to scream about.I seek information. This is what I am curious about. When I was little, I was at family gatherings with young girls present as is totally normal. There was no “ogling” of four year old girls, no-one sticking their hand up anyone’s skirt. If anything like that *had* happened, the perpetrator would have been stopped instantly, expelled, and never permitted near young children ever again. I know my family. The same applied to the same family’s gatherings by the time the children had grown up, got married, and had brought their own little girls along. Shoving a hand up the skirt of a little girl is Just Plain Wrong and I’m absolutely certainly that none of my close living relatives has ever done it, and certainly never at a family gathering. So what sort of family gather permits this sort of thing to happen? I seek information. I suppose I’ll just get downvotes again… 😕My grandparents who raised me also did a lot of international travel, to the North America, South America, North Africa, Middle East, Central and South Europe….everywhere I went men were doing the same thing, oogling a f*cking 5yrs old and trying to get near me, grandma batted their leering hands away from me sometimes but didn’t catch them all.I know about girls being sexually abused. Boys too. And I don’t doubt your report. But I’m struggling to understand how you suffered like this from the age of four. Hardly any men have the sort of mind which would cause them to “ogle” a four year old in my experience. 14 years old is a different matter, but it being commonplace at four or five? My brain just keeps saying “Does not compute”.”In your experience”. As a man. You’re kind of making my point for me. As a man you don’t get it, understand it, can’t fathom it…..because you’re a man, and are only working on your own very limited experience. Men are like this in all corners of the world, all societies, all races, all creeds, all wealth levels. If there’s an opportunity, most men will take it, even if its entirely wrong and disgusting. This is the world women live in, which majority of men are ignorantly and blissfully unaware of because they “just can’t get their head around it”. I’m not trying to be douchy towards you and be argumentative, but, buddy, you gotta open your eyes more and go talk to more women. You’re very underinformed.Surly Scot, I know I don’t know everything, But I do know something about male sexuality, and I do know that “normal” men have no sexual attraction towards girls of four or five, and the fraction of those who have is very, very small. I have seen and heard things you might be surprised at and in any case I’m working on a lot more than my personal experience or what I’ve heard from those I’ve met personally, many of whom are women. That’s why I’m having trouble getting my head round your report – I don’t doubt it, but wow, how come?We’re also on Instagram and tumblr 0comments 19 points 0comments 16 points 1comment 23 points 1comment 16 points 2comments 16 points 24replies 20 points 5comments 23 points 23replies 22 points 2comments 20 points 5comments 17 points
