Jennifer Love Hewitt opens up about her experiences with ageism in Hollywood
Jennifer Love Hewitt has been a bona fide Hollywood star since the 1990s — and she’s opening up about it unrealistic expectations that come with being in the spotlight for decades.
“I feel like fans pick this age that they like, that they think represents you, and you never have to grow up,” Hewitt, 45, said Fox New Digital in an interview published on Thursday, December 26. “For me, it was like me and my 20s. People seem to have a really hard time accepting that I don’t look like that anymore.’
While Hewitt began her acting career at a young age Kids Incorporatedshe got her first big break at 16 when she landed the role of Sarah Reeves on Fox’s Party of five. Two years later, she became a world sensation in 1997 slasher hit I know what you did last summer and its subsequent sequel. Since then she has starred in such shows The time of your life, List of clients and Ghost Whispererand released four studio albums.
While some may have had trouble watching her progress over the years, Hewitt, who has children Autumn, 11, Atticus, 9, and Aidan, 3 husband Brian Hallisey — perceives aging as a beautiful thing.
Private father! While Jennifer Love Hewitt doesn’t show her children or Brian Halisay’s children on social media, the actress has given rare glimpses of her life as a mother over the years. The 9-1-1 star married her Client List co-star in November 2013, the same month their daughter Adem was born. The couple’s son Atticus (…)
“Age is age,” she explained. “I think at 40, women really accept themselves and feel comfortable, and that’s beautiful.”
These days she plays the role of Maddie Buckley ABC is procedural 9-1-1 and simply released Holiday junkiea TV movie she directed and starred in.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisey in The Holiday Junkie. Courtesy of Lifetime
“It’s hard because I think as humans we want to evolve,” she continued. “We want our faces to have wrinkles and, you know, our boobs are lower from breastfeeding, or, you know, our asses are bigger.”
However, Hewitt is only human and cannot ignore the comments of trolls on social media.
Jennifer Lopez made headlines last week with her response to an interviewer who mentioned her age. “Look, I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since Selena. I can’t believe that 30 years from now we’re doing a retrospective on this, and you’ll be 60 by then,” Variety senior editor Clayton Davis said on Sunday (…)
“Whatever it is, you just want to have the freedom to be whoever you are at that age,” she explained. “And sometimes it’s hurtful when people reject you verbally on Instagram or online because it’s hard for them to get used to it.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt in I Know What You Did Last Summer. Cover images
Criticism reached a boiling point last year when Hewitt posted a picture of herself without make-up, leading to claims she was “unrecognisable”. She addressed the photo in the December 2023 episode Michael Rosenbaum“Inside You” podcast.
“The photo ended up somewhere. And a bunch of people were like, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable,'” she said. “She’s unrecognizable and therefore filtered because she doesn’t want us to know how bad she really looks now in her 40s.” And I said, “That’s crazy.” right?”
Hewitt also took the time to look back at her younger self and offer some advice to the teenager who graced the cover Maxim at the age of 17 years.
“Look, everything will work out. You’ll start to get old, and they’ll still let you do things,” she said. “It’s normal. You are fine.”
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