As of: November 29, 2025 7:36 a.m
Stefanie Reinsperger, known to many from the Dortmund crime scene, can currently be seen in “Love Letter to Jenny” on ZDF Herzkino. A film about body shaming and body acceptance. In the interview, Reinsperger explains how she looks at the topic herself.
“Body acceptance, the topic is incredibly important to me and it’s actually been with me my entire life. Once you start putting your body down and looking for flaws, it’s so incredibly difficult to ever stop.” Jenny Fromm stands in front of a school class. The leading actress in “Love Letter to Jenny”, played by Stefanie Reinsperger, gives courses on the subject of body acceptance. The 37-year-old is no stranger to the topic of body shaming: she herself is not what one would call “normally beautiful”. “On the one hand, there is this urge for self-optimization,” says Reinsperger, “and then there is – and I also see this as pressure – this self-love. That demands a lot from a person, that you wake up every day and say: I love myself. I am great the way I am. I don’t manage to do that every day and of course Jenny like that doesn’t manage to do that every day either,” said the actress.
Reinsperger: “Being at peace with yourself as a woman is already irritating”
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Not only Jenny (Stefanie Reinsperger) is under pressure to self-optimize, but also the fitness influencer Timo (Golo Euler).
The film tells the story of the fun-loving Jenny, who meets the super hot fitness influencer Timo, played by Golo Euler, in a rehabilitation clinic. He is completely in love with the woman who doesn’t correspond to his followers’ ideal of beauty. “I wouldn’t just relate the fact that she’s so happy with herself and so happy to her body. Rather, you think: Actually, she has everything. She has great friends, she has great hobbies, she’s doing well in her job and she’s at peace with herself. That’s something that’s enough to irritate a woman,” reports actress Stefanie Reinsperger.
Under the pressure of self-optimization
Reinsperger also sees a feminist approach in the film and in Jenny’s story: “We only have to look at the supermarket shelves and drugstores: How many more optimization products there are for women than for men – even in advertising. Every second advertisement suggests: Buy this, consume this, so that you can become even more beautiful, better, faster, further. Nevertheless, I think that the film does this in both directions, and I really like that.”
Because Timo is also under this pressure to self-optimize, seems to have everything and yet is not happy. But Jenny is the one who has to deal with the humiliation when the shitstorm starts:
You have no idea what it’s like to live with my body. The whole world is wondering what a hot guy like you wants from someone like me.
Jenny in a scene from “Love Letter to Jenny”
Reinsperger wants to make a film in which this is no longer an issue
Reinsperger courageously plays this Jenny, appearing in unflattering sports clothes, in underwear, and having sex with the well-trained Timo. Even if Stefanie Reinsperger doesn’t want to call it “courageous” herself: “I actually don’t like it when people think: Just because it’s not a standard-beautiful body, it’s braver or crass.”
Maybe not more blatant for the actors and actresses, but more unusual for the audience, says Reinsperger: “My best idea would be to simply start saying: There are all bodies. And all bodies can be loved, and all bodies can love, and they can also have sex, and they can think it’s great and beautiful. And that this is no longer somehow only reserved for a certain group of people who look like that. Because for me the next step would be to make a film where that’s no longer an issue.
It is still an issue in Stefanie Reinsberger’s life. She wishes for a little more of Jenny’s lightness and self-confidence. She gets that when she’s playing on stage or in front of the camera. But in her private life it’s something else.
Hamburger Pheline Roggan in a supporting role
On November 30th, ZDF will broadcast the Herzkino film “Love Letter to Jenny”. The film was shot entirely in Hamburg. The main roles are played by Stefanie Reinsperger and Golo Euler, with Pheline Roggan appearing in a supporting role.
