Jennifer Love Hewitt has been a beloved celebrity for decades now. Unfortunately, she’s had to deal with haters on social media that targeted her for using filters on her photos. Now Hewitt has responded to the backlash in the best possible way.
As noted on her appearance on the podcast Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, via People, she had to retaliate to comments that claimed she was “unrecognizable.” This led Hewitt to discussing the issue with “aging in Hollywood.”
“Aging in Hollywood is really hard,” Hewitt reveals. “It’s really hard because you can’t do anything right.”
She explained her discovery that led to this which began with a simple post-salon selfie without makeup:
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“I was getting my hair done and I had not a stitch of makeup on so I threw on a filter,” she said. “And it was just a filter that at the time, looked nice in the light at the salon.”
“I really gave it no thought,” she added.
Hewitt claimed that after posting the selfie, “a bunch of people were like, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable.’”
“And then another place was like, ‘She’s unrecognizable and so she’s gone to filters because she doesn’t want us to know how bad she actually looks now in her 40s,’” she recalled. “And I was like, ‘This is crazy right?’”
To retaliate against this, however, Hewitt took the opportunity to share even more photos with “over-the-top, crazy” filters added.
“I was like, ‘All natural, no filter,’ like trying to make fun of it, and then they came after me for that and they were like, ‘Well, now she’s just defending herself,” she said. “And I realized, I was like, ‘I can do no right.’”
Rosenbaum then asked Hewitt why she bothers paying so much attention to her haters on social media, especially those “who have nothing better to do than to put you down.” Hewitt gave the following response:
“Because to pretend that we don’t is a lie.”
Fortunately, Hewitt did acknowledge that there is a majority of people that “have been very kind” to her. “They’re grown up with me,” she adds. “They look like I do now. We’re all getting lines and maybe in menopause and who knows what else is coming for us.”
She concluded that it really bothers her because she is the “mother of a girl.”
“It’s dangerous what we put on people,” Hewitt said. “It’s dangerous, I think, to say to women, ‘You can’t look like you’re not 22 to me anymore because I don’t know how to take that.’”
“Because I’m 44, and this is what I look like,” she added.
It is certainly an interesting interview -and fans of the actress will surely appreciate hearing her perspective on the matter.