Jennifer Love Hewitt She's been a loyal Hollywood star since the '90s — and she's open about it Unrealistic expectations Which comes with being in the spotlight for decades.
“I feel like fans choose this age that they like and that they think you are, and you're never supposed to go beyond that,” Hewitt, 45, said. He told Fox New Digital In an interview published on Thursday, December 26. People seem to have a very hard time accepting that I don't look that way anymore.
While Hewitt began her acting career at an early age Kids IncorporatedShe got her first big break when she was 16 years old when she got the role of Sarah Reeves on Fox TV. Party of Five. Two years later, she became a global sensation in 1997 Hit the slasher I know what you did last summer And its subsequent sequel. She has since starred in shows such as Time of your life, Customer list and Ghost whispererand released four studio albums.
While some may have had a hard time watching her evolve over the years, Hewitt — who shares children Autumn, 11, Atticus, 9, and Aidan, 3 — has done so with her own. husband Brian Hallisay He sees aging as a beautiful thing.
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“Age is age,” she explained. “I think women really reach that acceptance of themselves and comfort in their 40s, which is beautiful.”
These days, she plays Maddie Buckley ABC procedural 9-1-1 And only Released Vacation addictIt is a television movie that she directed and starred in.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisay in The Holiday Junkie.
Courtesy for lifeShe continued: “It's difficult because I think that as human beings we want to evolve.” “We want to have lines on our faces, you know, our boobs are lower than breastfeeding our babies, or you know, our butts are bigger.”
However, Hewitt is only human, and he can't help but occasionally notice trolls' comments on social media.
Jennifer Lopez made headlines last week with her response to an interviewer who mentioned her age. “Listen, I can't believe it's been 30 years since Selena. I can't believe that in 30 years we're doing a retrospective, and you'll be 60 by then,” Clayton Davis, Variety's senior awards editor, said Sunday. .
“Whatever it is, you just want to have the freedom to be who you are at that age,” she explained. “And it hurts sometimes when people reject you verbally on Instagram or the internet because they have a hard time adjusting to it.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt in “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Cover imagesCriticism reached boiling point last year when Hewitt posted a photo of herself without make-up, leading to claims she was “unrecognisable”. The photo was covered in a December 2023 episode of the program Michael RosenbaumThe “Inside You” podcast.
“The photo ended up somewhere. A group of people said: 'Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable.'” “She's unrecognizable, so she resorted to filters because she didn't want us to know how bad she looked now that she was in her 40s. ” “This is crazy,” I said. right?”
Hewitt also took some time to take a look back at herself when she was younger and offer some advice to the teen featured on the magazine's cover Maxim At the age of 17.
“Look, it'll work out. You'll start getting older, and they'll still let you do things,” she said. “It's okay. You are fine.”
