Jennifer Love Hewitt slams mind-blowing era when grown men talked to me at 16 about my breasts

As a mother of three, Jennifer Love Hewitt is looking back at her teenage stardom in Hollywood with a fresh perspective.The 45-year-old told Mayim Bialik on “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown” podcast Tuesday that after she made “I Know What You Did Last Summer” in 1997, everyone became obsessed with her breasts.“When ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’ and that was like the joke,” she said.“And, again, everybody would laugh, so I would laugh.

It was supposed to be funny, I guess, right? Like it didn’t register with me that this is a grown man talking to me about my breasts on national television.”Hewitt added that she doesn’t blame interviewers for asking her questions about her breasts or making jokes. “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.”She said she didn’t take in the sexualization part of it at the time, “but in hindsight, it was really strange, I think, to become a sex symbol sort of like before I I even knew what that was.

Like I didn’t know what being sexy meant.” She said when she was in her 30s, she began to reevaluate her teen years in Hollywood. “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,” she said. She said fans would walk up to her and say, “I took your magazine with me on a trip last week,” and she’d feel she had to laugh with them about it, referring to her Maxim cover.

“But I didn’t know what that meant, you know.It’s kind of gross.”“So, I think later it sort of hit me more, the kind of things that I probably went through somewhere.

But, at the time, it felt very innocent and exciting and fun,” s...