I Became A S*x Symbol Before I Even Knew What That Meant – Jennifer Love Hewitt

Hollywood actress, Jennifer Love Hewitt has come out to reflect on being s*xualized as a teen.

She recently had her say during her appearance on a new episode of “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown” podcast, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, having grown men make jokes about her breasts when she was just 16 years old was really mind-blowing, and while several people laughed about it at the time, it feels very strange in hindsight.

Jennifer added that she just needed people to appreciate her talent as an actress, but they preferred to focus on her body part.

Her words, “There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it. 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 sort of like before I even knew what that was. I didn’t know what being sexy meant.

People would openly walk up and be like, ‘I took your magazine with me on a trip last week,’

I didn’t really know what that meant. It’s kind of gross.

When the movie came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’

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.

It was a culture that was fully accepted. They were allowed to believe that that was appropriate, and I answered the questions, laughed right along with them.

I really wanted people to walk away from the movie going, ‘That’s a really good actress.’ And instead … it was always about my breasts.

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.

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.”

WOW.