Jennifer Love Hewitt Clapped Back at Claims She Looks Unrecognizable in Haircut Photos

Publish date: 2024-08-20

Jennifer Love Hewitt is opening up about aging after fans claimed that she looked “unrecognizable” in a photo shared earlier this year. During a recent appearance on the Inside of You podcast, the actress chatted with host ​​Michael Rosenbaum about the incident while lamenting about the difficulties that come with aging in Hollywood.

“Aging in Hollywood is really hard. You can't do anything right,” she shared before getting candid about the infamous photo, which she originally shared back in August. “I was getting my hair done and I had not a stitch of makeup on, so, I threw on a filter. I really gave it no thought.”

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She then recalled how the photo quickly blew up on social media, adding, “A bunch of people were like, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable.' ‘She's unrecognizable, so she's gone to filters because she doesn't want us to know how bad she actually looks now in her 40s.' This is crazy, right?”

Hewitt explained that she responded to the backlash by “trying to make fun of it” by sharing even more snaps featuring “over-the-top” filters — complete with the cheeky caption, “So many people said I look different. I look the same as always. Couldn't look more natural ... Filters don't change you that much.”  — but that didn’t go over too well, either.

“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 and why is she defending?’” she said. “I realized I can do no right.

When asked by Rosenbaum why she wastes any of her time focusing on trolls “who have nothing better to do than put you down,” Jennifer replied, “because to pretend that we don’t is a lie.”

She concluded, “You don’t want to care what people think about you, but you have to care what people think about you.”

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