14 DAY TRIAL // Jennifer Love Hewitt gave birth to her first child, daughter Autumn, 4 months ago but, unlike many celebrity moms who bounce back into shape in as little as a few weeks after the arrival of their bundle of joy, she’s not giving herself too hard a time to lose the pregnancy weight.
That’s because Jennifer knows that, at this stage in her and her baby’s life, what matters more is to spend time together and for her to be healthy to be able to nurse her. “If your priorities are right,” you would not even consider starving yourself to get skinny again, the actress says on her first promo appearance since Autumn was born, at the launch of her maternity line with A Pea in the Pod.
She’s given birth already, but Jennifer is still wearing maternity clothes, she admits, as cited by E! News. They’re comfortable and stylish and, perhaps just as important, they mask the extra pounds and thus boost her self-esteem.
Hewitt won’t lie to her fans and other expectant moms out there by telling them shifting the pregnancy weight is a breeze. Sure, some lucky women might have it easy for a variety of factors that are entirely out of their control (like good genes, for instance), but Jennifer is not one of them.
“It's hard, it's really hard. And I wasn't sure where I was going to fall and what was going to happen and how I was going to feel. It just feels great to sort of be honest about the fact that it is tough and these clothes make it a little easier, make me feel beautiful. I'm still in a lot of my pregnancy clothes and there is just where I feel good right now,” she says.
She admits that she has days when she’s feeling down, when she wishes she too could lose the weight quicker and when she feels like nothing looks good on her. She’s sure many women can relate – and they don’t even have to be pregnant or new moms for that, we imagine.
Still, it’s important for the star to send the right message to her child and to keep her healthy.
“You have to eat to feed to your baby. And I have a girl so I want her to see some day why her mom has good self-esteem and good body issues. It gets you down sometimes, I'm not going to lie. I've had days where I'm like, ‘Ugh, I wish this was easier.’ But it's not, and that's OK,” she says.
It’s because she truly believes this that she wanted to create this line: our world is one in which being mean to another person pays off (it boosts ratings and it sells magazines, for sure) and in which women have forgotten how to be nice to others and to love themselves. Hewitt hopes her clothing line and the message behind it will change some of that.