What a difference a half a year makes: the last time “Ghost Whisperer” star Jennifer Love Hewitt was photographed vacationing with a boyfriend, it was known as “Bikini-gate.” Bloggers and stylistas the world over felt the need to “weigh in” on the star’s appearance. Flash forward to August 2009, and Jennifer has not only ditched those much-disputed extra pounds, but she’s also got a totally new boyfriend, in the form of her TV co-star Jamie Kennedy. The couple were photographed in Hawaii, and Jennifer was wearing a faintly familiar black bikini while playing tennis. Yes, you read that right.
Two years after photos surfaced of her looking fuller-figured in a bikini, Jennifer Love Hewitt is showing off her bod again.
The actress, 30, was photographed Saturday vacationing with boyfriend Jamie Kennedy in Hawaii. She also was spotted shooting hoops in her bikini and later relaxing on the beach.
Hewitt has come a long way since the flap over her weight. Last year, she posed on the cover of Us Weekly to reveal how she shed 18 pounds after just two weeks.
She said the hoopla over her body made her feel “a little embarrassed. It made me a little sad. It hurt my feelings.”
Earlier this year, she rose to Jessica Simpson’s defense after bloggers bashed her for her new curves.
“It gets silly,” Hewitt told Us. “We’re all supposed to look how we’re supposed to look. We’re made to be different people.
“Not everybody can be super tall and super skinny,” she added. “You have to look inside yourself and find your own confidence. It wavers from day to day, but that’s human nature.”
I’m trying to remember the last time I wore a bikini. It was circa 1995 – just before the birth of my first child. Coincidence? I think not. But even back then, in my super-skinny days, you would not catch me attempting to play tennis in a bikini. The words “wardrobe malfunction” come to mind. Also, is it just me, or does playing tennis in a bikini and heels seem to be a cry for attention? You be the judge.
Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.
Its a pity she still has massive cellulite on the back of her thighs. If she didn’t try so hard to prove how beautiful she is, no one would criticize her for not having a perfect body.
forget the bathing suit, why in hell is she trying to play tennis on those shoes? She’s going to twist a wheel.
Why is she playing tennis in wedge sandals? Weird enough to be playing in a bikini, which can likely be explained, but the sandals are inappropriate.
There is a shot she can get called lipodissolve that’ll get rid of those puckered lumps. If I had an extra grand laying around, I would totally get it!!!
X, you’re a jerk. ALL WOMEN HAVE CELLULITE AT SOME TIME IN THEIR LIVES. Get over it.
Girl clearly does not play sports regularly.
Talk about seriously asking for a rolled ankle.
Besides….she doesn’t strike me as someone that makes a lot of contact, so could you imagine a whirring little yellow ball flying at your bare skin? Not fun.
The only non-water sport where you could legitimately get away with wearing a bikini while playing is beach volleyball.
She is a total publicity hound. Hewitt is not wearing those shoes to play tennis in, she is wearing them because she would look fatter with barefeet. By next year this time, she will be wearing the same bikini but with a different man in another tropical destination.
jesus christ, she still has TONS of cellulite! No kidding she doesn’t exercise! I had the chubbiest thighs and nasty cellulite, but since I’ve been working out regularly and eating right, a lot of the lumps have worked themselves out. EXERCISE it does a body good.
The heels! OMG, tennis in those heels!
Size 2 LOLZ!
I would hit it though. She just whined too much a while ago about her weight. Probably still whines about it.
“!” … thats not necessarily true. Since hers is only on the back and its while she’s walking thats probably cellulite you can’t always see… so she probably saw a big reduction in her cellulite too, but it never “goes away” you only reduce it’s appearance. she has a six pack for petes sake she obviously works out.
Im in great shape and have always had tons of it. There’s not much you can do about it unless you have tons of money… even then it’s hard.
she looks great.
Cellulite is mostly GENETIC so get over it already, god God! Who gives a fuck what someone you’ve never met, never will meet, and don’t *really* know looks like while in a bikini?! Fuck…
Has her IQ dipped below her weight?? Never mind tennis in the bikini (it can be done)…running around the court in platform wedges is just idiotic.
I’d like to second AC.
She looks great. But yeah – tennis in heels – that’s attention whore land there.
Why on earth is she wearing those shoes! I would so love to see her breake her ankle!
jlove has always been more bottom heavy, it was just less noticeable when she was SUPER skinny, especially because she’s particularly slender in her arms and tummy.
i think she looks great. if you really look at her, she’s not hollywood skinny anymore, but she’s still relatively slender. i think she just gets more flack for her weight now because of how she USED to look at the peak of her career (heartbreakers, anyone?), size 0 with big boobs and curvy hips. so what if she’s gotten bigger and has some cellulite? she’s not 21 anymore, what would you expect?
even though i agree that this is probably a ploy for attention, if you were publicly criticized for your weight, wouldn’t you want people to see you once you got into better shape? ok maybe not everybody would feel that way, but a celebrity definitely would.
I just thank God I don’t look like this girl.
I love how women perpetuate body image tyranny. You all bitch about your oppression and preach acceptance and then jump right back to bashing what isn’t Madison Avenue created illusions of female beauty. You know, I see pictures of lots of overweight hollywood men with titties no less and they get nowhere near the wrath the women do about their bodies. I say you all deserve your low self-esteem and self-hatred because you all actively create it, participate in it, and perpetuate it.
@BlueSkies
It’s nice to see you have such self-confidence at the expense of other women. Perhaps you would care to post an undoctored bikini photo of yourself, front and back, to leave to the scrutiny and comments of millions of viewers.
She has cellulite, so what? Nobody can claim they’re perfect, especially most of women who DO have cellulite.
She has a great face anyway and is not fat at all. (Except in Hollyweird maybe…)
@AC. I didn’t say it’d get rid of all of it. Neither did I say it got rid of all of mine. But her thighs look like a disaster area and it probably could be improved a little if she were taking care of herself better. Period. I have the worst body type in the world and even I got rid of some of mine.
And AC that’s not a six pack. Her stomach does not even remotely resemble a six pack. She doesn’t have one. Women only get them by working out to the point where they no longer regularly get their periods, unless they’re on steroids.
If she’s at a beach resort I can understand the bikini – when I’m at one of those places I pretty much put on a bikini in the morning and spend the whole day in it since I’m in and out of the water all the time.
The heels though, wtf?! Tennis has the hardest lateral cutting motions of practically any sport and you need the MOST stable shoes you can find…pretty much the exact opposite of what she’s wearing.
She’s lucky the paps didn’t end up with shots of her falling on her bum.
oh the heels the heels..
whatever to the rest. not my gig but if she’s confortable playing tennis in a bikini, more power to her. Certainly more pleasant to look at than the bikini mamas round here.
but the wedges??? puleez
Where are the pics of a pale and bloated Jamie?
i know paparrazi have no morals but it’s just rude to take someone’s photo from behind
As another girl with a big ole bottom, I think she looks fabulous! I’ve been far smaller than I am now, but I’ve always had cellulite. There really isn’t much one can actually do about it.
I can’t believe she is playing in those shoes tho! Does she WANT a broken ankle?
Gorgeous!
I never noticed how big her hips are.
She doesn’t have a six pack. Not even a four pack.
But you’re pretty much asking for people to pick apart your body if you play tennis in heels and a bikini.
Does anyone really believe she’s playing tennis? She called up a pap friend and arranged a photo session. She’s wearing 3 inch wedges because she wanted to look good in the photos.
My guess is that she’s hoping people will pick on her for her cellulite and give her press coverage, much like they did last year for her weight. Gawd, this girl is irritating.
She looks great!
You haters are probably all fat and saggy looking people who are filled with jealousy about how good she looks.
All natural and slender with a womanly figure! No wonder she is showing her body off
She needs to keep that body covered from neck to knees. Seriously.
Why would anyone let themselves go like these? These thighs and lumpy stomach are a tragedy and she is only 30 and had no kids yet.
no one else noticed she is wearing tons of makeup ???? lol
Look. J-Love is a goddess. Look at those child bearing hips. She looks better with cellulite than 99.9999999999999999999999999% of you bitches. And all u guys I wanna see who you’re dating or married too. I bet they’re 200 lb bonbon eating heffas. My only question is: why a dork like Jamie KennedY???????? I guess making these hos laugh is the way in.
I think that this is just what the tennis association would love to have. They pretty much alienated all of the “unattractive” women from center court. They only want the feminine and attractive women there. J Love might want to pitch the idea…. a true pioneer!
*sigh* just because we rag on her body doesn’t mean we’re fat.
She’s obviously doing it for attention.
Let’s leave her alone about her body. I think she looks fine. Women have cellulite – it happens. (Far from a 6-pack though!)
Buuuuuttttt – playing tennis in those f*cking shoes, the bikini and full makeup?? She definitely knows that she is being photographed on this romantic vacation of hers and her dork boyfriend. Why not dress appropriately for the courts?? She looks retarded!
she looks like an idiot with false eyelashes and those heels. shes so desperate for attention. she should a hidden those nasty cottage cheese legs.
It is obvious those photos were taken from behind some trees or shrubs (note the leaves framing the shots) and Jennifer looks like she is serious about hitting the ball and playing. I am sure she was stalked by the photogs for these shots and is probably not too happy right now at the invasion of her privacy. I have played tennis in a bikini before to work on my tan and exercise at the same time, and I am sure others have also. As for the heels, I would rather wear those than bare feet on hot black top. Maybe she did not pack tennis shoes but was conjoled into a game of tennis just for fun? And 80% of women over the age of 25 have cellulite- who cares, so now we know she is normal!
She looks great. She looked great BEFORE the weight loss. Stop being so FICKLE. And anyone who commented on this article, raise your hand if you don’t have cellulite.
that’s what I thought.
Sorry, rose, but this whole situation still looks ridiculously contrived and attention-seeking to me. How hard would it be for a professional photog to figure out he needs to take flawed shots to make them look like genuine paparazzi photos? If these shots were perfect, she’d look even more like a narcissistic twit when claiming she’s interesting enough to be followed by paps.
If she’s in a swimsuit because she just got off the beach or wants to work on her tan, why the full makeup? Also, it’s not just idiotic to play tennis in strappy heels, I’d say it’s impossible to do for more than 5 minutes. Tennis is harder on my feet and ankles than jogging, and I couldn’t even jog half a block in her heels.
you guys are all ridiculous. Who cares what she plays in. she looks great i think and everyone just needs to calm down and stop being so dumb! shes beautiful!
People, GET A LIFE
Wow, great collection of tips 🙂 will try and check them all. Thanks