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Jennifer Love Hewitt on Struggles of Losing Baby Weight: I Want to Teach My Daughter "Good Body Issues"

Exclusive! New mom tells E! why she's fine not dieting after pregnancy

By Brett Malec Apr 02, 2014 11:30 AMTags
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New mom Jennifer Love Hewitt isn't sugarcoating the fact that it's not the easiest thing to lose the baby weight.

At last night's launch party for her new A Pea in the Pod maternity clothing line L by Jennifer Love Hewitt, the 35-year-old actress admitted she's not obsessed with losing weight and getting super-skinny just four months after welcoming baby daughter Autumn (and rightfully so!).

"It's hard, it's really hard," Hewitt told E! exclusively of her post-pregnancy status. "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. Everything hasn't returned back to where I want it to be and put on my other clothes and feel good about that."

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Hewitt stresses she's not doing any crazy or wild diets, adding, "If your priorities are right, the baby's most important. You have to eat to feed 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."

And that's exactly why Hewitt wanted to design her own maternity line for A Pea in the Pod.

"We're sort of in this odd time in our society right now where women are not being nice to each other," she told us. "We've got a lot of reality stuff where people being mean to each other and, fashion-wise, people are talking bad about each other. I thought, ‘What a beautiful place to put my energy?' Make a line for women, by a woman, who actually wants them to feel great and feel beautiful and look fantastic and look better than everyone walking around, especially at a time when you cannot feel very good about yourself."

We agree!