Jenna Dewan Responded to People Who Say She Looks Just Like Jessie J
When news broke a few weeks ago that Channing Tatum was dating pop singer Jessie J, the comparisons to his ex-wife Jenna Dewan were almost immediate. “Since he seems to have a type…does he know that I, too, have dark hair?” one person remarked on Twitter. “Channing Tatum is dating singer Jessie J, but what makes it kind of weird is that she’s Jenna Dewan’s doppelgänger,” wrote someone else. Even Vanderpump Rules star Jax Taylor weighed in on the situation. “Looks like Jenna dwans sister to me,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing, though: Any person who started dating Tatum would’ve been compared to Dewan—regardless of what they look like. It’s just in our culture to compare new celebrity partners to their former spouses—especially if they’re women. What can come from that, unfortunately, is a catty girl-fight narrative completely fabricated by social media.
But Dewan is putting a stop to that before it even starts. She took to Instagram this week and responded to these Jessie J comparisons in the best way possible.
It all started when one user commented, “FIRST OF ALL….whenever I hear of the ‘striking resemblance’ w/ Jessie J to Jenna Dewan ..my only thoughts are ummmmm no. Just trying to spread positive vibes, keep doing you…to an absolute outsider from a small town you are doing it seemlessly [sic].”
To this, Dewan had a simple but important response: “Positive vibes all the way.”
Take a look at the exchange for yourself, below.
PHOTO: Instagram
The Internet would do well to adopt Dewan’s thinking. It’s 2018—we should be past comparing two women just because they have brown hair and dated the same person. As Dewan said herself, positive vibes only.
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