The Truth About Love

The Jennifer Love Hewitt we don’t see on “The Ghost Whisperer”

Groan all you want at the special effects on The Ghost Whisperer, but if you haven’t been noticing the monstrous size of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ass of late, then the show’s most important visual effect is working just fine.

Not that this has been hard to do: shoot Jennifer from above the waist, and the eye is more distracted by Jennifer’s boobs (which always seem on the verge of spilling out of whatever negligee they’re in, but never do — the show’s other great special effect) than by the show’s other shortcomings.

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s boobs in “The Ghost Whisperer”

But with these new bikini pictures now floating around the net, the veil is lifted and the jig is up. Especially if they turn up on the TV gossip shows, where J-Love’s backside might actually become news.

Luckily for her, Jennifer hasn’t appeared in the tabloids enough to garner the kind of public disdain that, say, Britney Spears has, and much of the public reaction I’ve seen on the net so far has been as much apologetic as disappointed.

Still, one can ride the public’s nostalgic good will only for so long; a celebrity whose popularity is built largely on sex appeal would be wise to start hitting the gym before the writers strike ends and even the Ghost Whisperer effects people can’t shoot around the elephant in the room.