Last year, In Touch Weekly ran a little story about Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy. During Kennedy’s improv act, he brought Love on stage and had her talk. She told a funny/sad story about the first time Jamie saw her naked and made a reference to, in his words, her “pear-ass”. Embarrassing, yes? I mean, if a guy called me “pear-ass” he would be out the door and we would never hear about anything involving a pear or an ass ever, ever again. But Jennifer told the story and continues to keep Kennedy around, so whatever. But now she’s bringing up the pear-ass again!
Jennifer Love Hewitt — who was famously mocked for looking fuller-figured in a bikini in 2007 — says she almost dumped her boyfriend Jamie Kennedy when he called her “pear ass.”
“We had a rough patch in the beginning because the first time we went on vacation, I was going to be in a bikini, and I was very nervous,” she said Tuesday on the late-night TBS talk show Lopez Tonight.
“I heard him coming down the hall, so I got in the cute bikini position.
“And he goes, ‘Hey, my little pear ass.’ “I said, ‘I’m sorry, what did you say?'”
Hewitt, 30, then explained to Lopez that the remark wasn’t a compliment. “Have you ever seen a pear?” she asked. “It starts thin, it gets fat and it never gets thin again. It’s not cute. It’s not a cute fruit.”
She said they’ve since “worked it out” and now “we’ve embraced the pear.”
Kennedy “didn’t mean” the remark in a mean way, she added. Said Hewitt, “He thought it was a compliment, I think.”
[From Us Weekly]
“We’ve embraced the pear”? Oh, honey, no. Just no. By the way, isn’t it interesting that the story keeps changing? As if Jamie Kennedy has called her a “pear-ass” on multiple occasions. I said at the time of the original story that I would freak out and dump the guy, and I stand by that. But Jennifer is determined to fulfill her lifelong destiny of The Girl Who Always Gets Engaged But Never Married. New reports have Jennifer trying to talk Jamie into getting engaged. That poor bastard.
Jennifer and Jamie in LA on December 12, 2009. Credit: WENN. Also, at the ‘New Moon’ premiere on November 16, 2009. Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.
The bikini story that just won’t go away. Love–get over it already. By bringing up your ass over and over again, you won’t let people forget that cellulite-ridden picture of your ass in a bikini. Move on! And, Jamie Kennedy? He’s an ASS!
I have never understood all the fuss about Jennifer Love Hewitt. She has always had a lovely figure that well, disappeared under layers of fat after she gained weight; just as it would happen to everybody else. It’s called ‘getting fat’ and it happens to all human beings if we eat too much.
I find it hard to understand why she would be crucified and considered “stupid” and “not hot (anymore)” just because she became fat. Is this what we women have achieved after over a century of struggles? Someone is deemed desperate, untalented, foolish, ugly and annoying just because she was overweight? Please!
What we should be criticizing is the fact that she never has anything of consequence to say. Honey, talk about something other than your body!
And yes, I know that her main source of income is her image and that she should respect her public enough to at least try to look fabulous all the time, but I think that this doesn’t justify ALWAYS disqualifying someone based on the premise that oh-my-dear-Lord, she had cellulite!
Wow! I wonder why she isn’t burning in hell already. *rolls eyes*
meh. it’s not complimentary but sometimes we all mis-speak.
i have taken offence at something that was meant as a compliment.
embrace the pear. works for me.
(‘cept it makes that god-awful Nick Cage line ring in my head)
I don’t know… I don’t find it that offensive (maybe because I’m rather pear-assed myself). I complain about my butt all the time & my husband always tells me to hush because he loves it!
I actually think pears are cute…seriously, I think Jamie Kennedy is an ass himself, but he may like a nice ass on a girl and thought he was giving her a compliment.
Ive got a very “guitar” figure– a defined waist and large curvy hips. Im eastern European, and it shows. 🙂
I have had only compliments on my shape and how womanly it is— never would I stand for anybody callign what I’ve got “pear-ass” — as though it was somehow unflattering to have a womanly shape rather than look like a tree trunk with breasts– *cough cough Lindasy Lohan cough*
Men love my body and its shape and I dont believe there is anythign ugly or out of line with having a ‘pear’, or guitar, or hourglass- whatever you want to call it– figure.
Only accept “love” from those who truly appreciate who and what you are– as for the rest, dont even give it your time or energy. There are too many fish in the sea to bother with such a rude and devaluing man.
I honestly don’t think that Jamie’s intention was to insult her. What he may have thought was a cute remark just happened to be insensitive to someone who is self-conscious about that part of her anatomy.
However, we’ve all seen the pictures and she is pear-shaped so what he said was true. At first she appeared to be offended, now she seems to have gotten over it if she is telling the story AGAIN!
My peeves with JLH are:
1. She obviously lied about being a Size 2 when Bikini-gate happened. She clearly was not a Size 2 and was called out for the lie, which then turned into a debate about whether she was ‘fat’.
2. This desperation to be engaged and on her way to the altar is kind of sad and pathetic. JLH, if and when he realizes that you are The One, he will let you know and no amount of pressuring from you will change that.
3. She talks about her personal life TOO MUCH. Ugh. I don’t need to hear you on Howard Stern or George Lopez talking about you and whoever you’re in a relationship with and what you do and the conversations you have.
The Pear-Ass Chronicles Indeed.
What I found silly during the whole fat ass thing was that Jennifer was still wearing a size 2/4. That is sooo not fat, pear butt or not.
I’m meh on her – she’s got an interesting face, not one I’d consider beautiful and I don’t think she’s a very good actress, especially when she jumped on that looking like Audrey Hepburn garbage.
I really think it’s silly to start giving her the Aniston treatment of “can’t hold a guy because I’m so desperate.” Jamie Kennedy? Blech.
I really like her style in the Ghost Whisperer… The clothes suit her perfectly and she does not look fat at all. So what if she is not a size 2? You should embrace the way your body is and ”make it work”.
Exactly Lolabella, I don’t think he was trying to insult her, I think it was a dopey attempt at being cute
@teehee please don’t speak for all of us. I’m from Russia and was just back visiting in august- the girls are very thin and pear definitely isn’t the dominant frame. I’m no pear, and I’ve never heard that before
When will men stop referring to women’s body parts as types of fruit? It makes me not want to even look at fruit anymore!
I wanst really speaking for all of “us”– whoever that is meant to refer to…
I spoke rather self-centerdly about my figure and my attitude about it; as for eastern European, I cited that for why *I* think *I* look this way- without stating that ‘all easterners are like this’, though. Its a general correlation -meant to work in ONE direction only!
…Dont take me too seriously– Im very fuzzy and egoistic to boot. 🙂
And oh yeah, I still dont think he meant well.
I don’t know. My boyfriend says things that, out of context, might sound pretty offensive, but I know they aren’t.
One of my guy friends used to use the term “thunder thighs” as a compliment until a girl he dated explained what was wrong with it.
If they think Jen is fat that means that %95 of the population is fat, you have to be kidding me, rosie o’donnell is fat, JLH is NOT fat – she’s healthy and eating which is what we as a society should be promoting and not these rail thin – haven’t eaten since the 80’s role models
My bet is that he will never marry her.
Generally, remarks about a woman’s figure need to be tactful. It’s important to men and to women.
When a stranger brings it up, it doesn’t matter how kind they are. They are commenting casually and at a distance on something that’s intimate, and it feels wrong to women because people don’t seem interested in our personal boundaries.
I wish women could just be happy with what they’ve got, and stop comparing themselves to some arbitrary and non-existent “perfect” body type. I am short and thin, with no ass, no hips, and no tits, and I’m OK with that because I can’t do anything about it even if I wanted to. And believe me, my life has improved dramatically since I just accepted that this is how I was built. I wish other women could be happy with who they are, because my God, I get sick of the snotty, hateful commentary about how I need to “eat a sandwich” (I would if I could but I’m so thin because of crippling stomach issues, not vanity or an ED), which is just as hateful and nasty as commenting on a heavier woman’s weight. Because…WE DON’T KNOW WHY SOMEONE WEIGHS WHAT THEY DO, and even if we did, who the hell are we to pass judgment on regular, non-attention wh0ring women who are just going about their daily lives? Everyone needs to mind their own business, and maybe if idiots like JLove would STFU, we could all get over this stupid, pointless waste of time that is equating our worth as humans based on how we look or what type of body we have/dress size we wear.
@Lolabella: you forgot that she followed up her “I”m a size 2” routine a few months later with a feature story in People about how she dropped 20 pounds!
As for guys saying things that are perceived as insults by their wives or gfs. . .I remember being at the mall with my brother and his then gf, who was extremely petite. He noticed she was going into specialty shops so he suggested she hit another shop he saw specialized in women’s sizes. poor schmuck didn’t know that “woman’s” in lady clothes-speak means plus sized clothing. His could not understand why his gf looked so offended and I had to explain it to him (then I had to buy new jeans and underwear to change into because I laughed so hard I peed my pants).
i never got this thing with body image. if someone likes ME he will like the way i look naked. i mean all the guys do NOT have the perfect body too right?
so stop bothering
Very well said, Pickelhaube and Sickofit.
Any man who looks at Jennifer sees her as a sex goddess, or he’s gay ahd wished he looked like her.Every woman who criticizes her would pull out their finger nails to look like her. I will tell you she is beautiful and I can deal with every putrid comments made about her. All you ugly people just keep making yourself feel good.
Why do people freak out when a woman’s hips are wider than her rib cage? We’re SUPPOSED to be built like that. If we weren’t, the human race would be extinct by now.
Don’t have an ounce of sympathy for that asshole, Jamie Kennedy. He’s just as big a famewhore – if not bigger, and more desperate – as JLH.
lol @ the title of this post.
ugh. she is like the new jennifer anniston to me. never happy unless she has a boyfriend, and quickly adding to the notches on her bed post.
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