A friendly reminder to actresses who grace the cover of Vanity Fair: Your words may be recorded. And then repeated. Loudly.

Knocked Up star Katherine Heigl became the third actress in recent memory forced to do some backtracking after she declared summer hit Knocked Up "a little sexist" in the mag's latest issue. First, Heigl noted that the movie "paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as goofy, fun-loving guys." Then—perhaps wary that she'd never be invited to participate in a Judd Apatow cash cow again—she told Us Weekly that she was just "responding to previous reviews about the movie the interviewer brought to my attention ... Although I stand behind my opinion, I'm disheartened that it has become the focus of my experience with the movie."

This isn't the first time that a star has scrambled after allegedly being portrayed inaccurately in the mag.

Jennifer Aniston told Newsweek she was "upset with how the Vanity Fair article turned out," referring to her September 2005 cover that was the best-selling issue in the magazine's history. In the profile, Aniston comes off as misty eyed over her split with Brad Pitt; she later claimed that her fit of tears lasted only a second.

Pitt himself was involved in a separate flap with VF, saying that the mag's decision to use an old, unauthorized photo of his for their December 2006 "Art" issue cover made him "question their integrity and motives." And after her January 2006 cover, Lindsay Lohan says that she was "appalled" that statements made to writer Evgenia Peretz regarding her drug use and battle with bulimia were "misused and misconstrued." (For its part, Vanity Fair said that all of her quotes were on tape).

Of course, none of this means that you're likely to see an A-list boycott of the magazine any time soon; in a telling testament to the power of the VF juggernaut, no publicists would actually go on the record to say why they'd play ball with a publication in which their clients are liable to be portrayed inaccurately. Being talked about—even wrongly—is better than not being talked about at all. Plus, the pictures are to die for.