Skip to main content

Life's Pleasures Quote by Jennifer Love Hewitt

"I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good"

About this Quote

There is something almost disarmingly tactical about how Jennifer Love Hewitt frames desire here: not as a guilty secret, but as a cheerful, repeatable habit. In a celebrity culture that used to demand actresses speak in the language of restraint (clean eating, tiny portions, vague "I just forget to eat"), she leans into appetite with the kind of breezy candor that reads like rebellion precisely because it's casual.

The phrasing does a lot of work. "Pig out" nods to the shame script without surrendering to it; she borrows the taboo term, then drains it of punishment by making it sound fun, even practical. The repetition of "food" and the plain, enthusiastic cadence ("any kind", "so good") keep the tone intentionally un-fancy. This isn't a chef's-table performance of taste. It's a backstage confession meant to make her legible as a person who actually eats, enjoys, and repeats.

The specifics matter culturally. Italian and Indian food are mainstream favorites, but they carry different connotations: Italian as comfort-normal, Indian as flavorful, aromatic, "addictive" in a way that implies abundance and spice. Saying she eats it three times a week signals routine rather than a one-time "cheat meal" excursion. The subtext is a quiet pushback against the punitive diet cycle: pleasure doesn't have to be earned; it can be part of the week.

It also works as celebrity intimacy: a low-stakes preference list that invites fans to mirror back their own cravings, building relatability without revealing anything truly vulnerable.

Quote Details

TopicFood
SourceHelp us find the source
Cite

Citation Formats

APA Style (7th ed.)
Hewitt, Jennifer Love. (2026, January 16). I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-do-love-italian-food-any-kind-of-pasta-or-pizza-102385/

Chicago Style
Hewitt, Jennifer Love. "I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-do-love-italian-food-any-kind-of-pasta-or-pizza-102385/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-do-love-italian-food-any-kind-of-pasta-or-pizza-102385/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

More Quotes by Jennifer Add to List
Jennifer Love Hewitt on Italian and Indian Food
Click to enlarge Portrait | Landscape

About the Author

USA Flag

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is a Actress from USA.

13 more quotes available

View Profile

Similar Quotes

Diane von Furstenberg, Designer