Jennifer Love Hewitt is recalling the "gross" questions she was asked about her body at the beginning of her career years later.
After watching the "Framing Britney Spears" documentary, Hewitt, 42, is realizing that much of the way she was spoken to as a young actress was "incredibly inappropriate."
In an interview with Vulture, Hewitt outlined her experiences and explained how she avoided the questions about her body.
"It's interesting. I just watched the Britney Spears documentary, and there's that whole section in there talking about her breasts," Hewitt explained in reference to a clip from a resurfaced interview in the documentary.
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"At the time that I was going through it, and interviewers were asking what now would be incredibly inappropriate, gross things, it didn't feel that way. I mean, I was in barely any clothing the whole movie," she recalled.
"For some reason, in my brain, I was able to just: OK, well, I guess they wouldn't be asking if it was inappropriate," she continued.
Hewitt now shares two children with actor Brian Hallisay, but she still remembers back to earlier on in her career when she would try to hide her body in interviews.
"I definitely look back on it and go, 'Ew.' And it really started with 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' because that was the first time that I had worn a low top, and on 'Party of Five,'" she explained. "I remember purposely wearing a T-shirt that said 'silicone free' on it because I was so annoyed, and I knew something about boobs was gonna be the first question out of [reporters'] mouths."
But even with her efforts in dodging the body image questions, Hewitt still found herself disgusted by the constant prodding.
"I was really tired of that conversation...I was disappointed that it was all about body stuff, because I had really worked hard in that movie to do a good job as an actress," she said.
"So I remember one specific moment wishing that the acting had overshadowed all that - that for five minutes, they had said I was really great in the movie versus made a body comment. Now that I'm older, I think: Gosh, I wish that I had known how inappropriate that was so I could have defended myself somehow or just not answered those questions," she continued.
Still, Hewitt is glad that we're now in a time of recognizing that these types of questions are relevant or useful to a star's career.
"I'm really grateful that we're in a time where, hopefully, that narrative is going to change for young girls who are coming up now, and they won't have to have those conversations," she said.
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