Jennifer Love Hewitt is addressing the pressures of ageing within the highlight. The previous Ghost Whisperer star, 44, recalled throughout a brand new episode of the “Inside You” podcast that followers thought she appeared “unrecognizable” after she debuted a brand new coiffure in September.
“Getting old in Hollywood is actually onerous. You possibly can’t do something proper,” Jennifer identified earlier than recalling that she acquired a brand-new hairdo and needed to publish an image of the look to social media.
“I used to be getting my hair performed, and I had not a sew of make-up on. So, I threw on a filter. I actually gave it no thought,” the I Know What You Did Final Summer time actress stated. “A bunch of individuals have been like, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable.’ ‘She’s unrecognizable, so she’s gone to filters as a result of she doesn’t need us to understand how dangerous she really appears to be like now in her 40s.’”
Jennifer additionally remembered that folks weighed in by claiming, “‘Nicely, now she’s simply defending herself and why is she defending?’ I noticed I can do no proper,” she concluded on the podcast. Whereas it could be preferable to easily ignore the net bullies, Jennifer identified that she nonetheless pays consideration to the scrutiny, noting, “To faux that we don’t is a lie.”
Celebrities, primarily ladies, have confronted a protracted historical past of dealing with harsh criticism over their bodily look. Some have normalized going make-up or filter-free, together with Jennifer and, most just lately, mannequin Pamela Anderson.
In September, Jennifer reshared the photographs of herself through her Instagram Tales and wrote, “So many individuals stated I look totally different. I look the identical as at all times. Couldn’t look extra pure … Filters don’t change you that a lot.”
Jennifer adopted up on her assertion by additionally slamming rumors that she had a forehead raise, noting in a separate video that she doesn’t “often” reply to those claims.
“However I’ve had lots of people currently say that I’ve had a brow-lifting process,” she defined on the time. “I didn’t even know you might raise your brows like that. The one factor that I’ve performed is microblading with Audrey, who I like.”