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Jennifer Love Hewitt fights ageism in Hollywood.
Although Hewitt has been in the spotlight for decades, she has brushed off critics who scrutinized her looks as she grew up in the industry.
“Old age is old age,” she told Fox News Digital. “I think women are really coming into this … accepting themselves and being comfortable in their 40s, which is wonderful.”
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Jennifer Love Hewitt told Fox News Digital how she deals with hateful comments about her aging in Hollywood. (Michael Tran/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Although “The Holiday Junkie” star said she loves her current age, she admitted that the most challenging aspect for her is the public’s reaction to her aging.
Hewitt stars in and directs her first Christmas movie, “The Holiday Junkie.” (Chris Haston/WBTV via Getty Images)
“The times that I’m having a hard time though… I feel like the fans are choosing… this era that they love and that they think represents you, and you should never grow beyond that,” she explained, referring to the Taylor quote Swift.
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt in a scene from the 1998 film “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.” (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)
As for Hewitt, she revealed that fans mostly adore her was in her 20s. Hewitt is known for her role in the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” franchise opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr., as well as “Heartbreakers” with Sigourney Weaver and the cult classic “Can’t Can’t Barely I’m waiting.”
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“For me… it was like me and my 20s… it seems like it’s really hard for people to accept… I don’t look like that anymore,” the 45-year-old admitted.
“It’s hard because I think as humans we want to evolve… we want to have wrinkles on our face, and you know our breasts are lower because we’re breastfeeding our children, or you know our behinds are bigger,” she said with a laugh.
“No matter what, you just want to have the freedom to be whoever you are at that age. And sometimes it hurts when people reject you for who you are verbally on Instagram or on the Internet because it’s hard for them to adjust to that.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt previously posted a filtered photo on Instagram that was met with abusive comments. (Jennifer Love Hewitt)
Last year, the “Party of Five” actress responded to claims that she was “unrecognizable” after sharing a photo on social media.
“Sometimes it hurts when people reject you for who you are.”
Hewitt decided to apply a filter to the photo she posted as she was wearing no make-up and was met with nasty comments and headlines suggesting she looked completely different.
Jennifer Love Hewitt photographed on two red carpets in 1998 (L) and 1999 (R). (Getty Images)
“The picture ended up somewhere. And a bunch of people said, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable,'” she said on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast.
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“She’s unrecognizable and that’s why she went for filters because she doesn’t want us to know how bad she actually looks now in her 40s.’ And I said, ‘This is crazy.’ Right?”
Hewitt previously noted the irony that she didn’t fully understand what it meant to be sexy at a young age, while she was adorning cover of Maxim at only 17 years old.
Actors from “Fun of the Five”. (L-R) Lacey Chabert, Scott Wolf, Paula Devicq, Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt. (Photo: Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Now, the Hollywood actress’ perspective on how fans view her has changed since becoming mother of three children.
“I have a daughter, I’m sensitive about it because I don’t want my kids to read these things and feel that way … or worry if it’s going to hurt me … sometimes it’s hard to do.”
It looks like Hewitt’s daughters will follow in their parents’ acting footsteps. They were included in a Christmas movie, “Holiday addict.“
The Lifetime movie, which Hewitt directed and is her first Christmas movie, focuses on her character, Andie, as she navigates the holidays during a difficult time after losing her mother.
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Although her character faces a difficult time, her spirits soar when she finds an unexpected Christmas romance.
Jennifer Love Hewitt looks at her husband behind the scenes of their Christmas movie “The Holiday Junkie”. (Jennifer Love Hewitt/Instagram)
Her on-screen love interest is played by her real-life husband, Brian Hallisay. The couple first met on the set of Lifetime’s “Love Bites” and married in November 2013. They have three children: Autumn, 11, Atticus, 9, and Aidan, 3.
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Hewitt has been acting since she was a child and told Fox News Digital the advice she would give her younger self.
“I was always worried,” she noted. “I was always worried… I had a lot of fun at work, and [thought] it would be my last or that… people would throw me out of Hollywood and not let me act anymore.”
Hewitt told Fox News Digital that she would tell her younger self, “Look, it’s going to work. You’re going to start getting older and they’re still going to let you do things.” (Jerod Harris/WireImage)
“Or that I was going to be stupid… whatever it was. I was always worried… I definitely enjoyed it and being present… I had a good time and all that stuff. But I wasted a lot of time worrying. And I think I’d just tell her, ‘Look, you’re going to get old, and they’re still going to let you do things … it’s okay.'”
