Jennifer Love Hewitt called out ageism in Hollywood and cruel internet trolls, who she claims expect her to look exactly the same as she did in her early twenties.
While reflecting on the criticism that she endures online about her appearance, the actress, 45, revealed that she has come to terms with getting older, even if others have not.
‘Age is age,’ she recently told Fox News Digital. ‘I think women really come into this… acceptance of themselves and comfortability in their 40s that is beautiful.’
Still, she admitted the hardest part of being in the spotlight is the expectation to look exactly the same as she did in her hit films, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Heartbreakers.
‘The times that it’s hard for me though… I feel like fans pick… this age that they love that they think represents you, and you’re never supposed to grow beyond that,’ the mom-of-three explained.
The performer continued: ‘For me… it was like me and my 20s … people seem to have a really hard time accepting that … I don’t look that way anymore.’
Jennifer Love Hewitt called out ageism in Hollywood and cruel internet trolls, who she claims expect her to look exactly the same as she did in her teens and early twenties; seen this month
‘It’s hard because I think as humans, we want to evolve … we want to have lines on our faces, and you know our boobs be lower from breast-feeding our children, or you know our butt’s bigger,’ the star mused.
Hewitt insisted that she just wants ‘to have the freedom to be whoever’ she is at her age without others nitpicking everything about her.
‘It’s hurtful sometimes when people reject you as you are verbally on Instagram or the internet because they’re having a hard time adjusting to it,’ she stressed.
Her remarks come after recently sharing the secret to her successful 11-year marriage to husband and fellow actor Brian Hallisay.
Although she tends to keep her personal and professional life separate, Hewitt shared a few tidbits of their romance with People earlier this month.
While reflecting on more than a decade of wedded bliss and sticking together through thick and thin and three kids, the actress raved: ‘That’s like 190 years in Hollywood.’
The couple tied the knot on November 21, 2013, just days before their oldest daughter, Autumn was born.
They had met a couple years earlier, first on the set of Love Bites in 2011, but didn’t have sparks fly until they worked together again on 2012’s The Client List.
While reflecting on the criticism that she endures online, the actress, 45, revealed that she has come to terms with getting older; seen with co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
‘I thought he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen in my life,’ the 9-1-1 star told the publication.
‘I said to my manager and friend at the time: “I’m going to marry that man, and I’m going to have his children.” She said, “Sweetheart, I think everybody thinks they’re going to marry that man and have his children.” I was like, “Yeah, but I’m going to do it. Just watch.”‘
And while it was love at first sight for Hewitt, she thinks it may have taken Hallisay, 46, a bit more time to warm up to the idea.
‘I don’t know that it was instant for him,’ she admitted, ‘But it was instant for me.’
The I Know What You Did Last Summer star said she wasn’t attracted to Hallisay just because he was handsome, it was also because ‘He was kind and he was good and close with his family and he was smart.’
‘Age is age,’ she recently told Fox News Digital. ‘I think women really come into this… acceptance of themselves and comfortability in their 40s that is beautiful’ (seen in 2012)
‘We just had fun, and I was smitten. I got lucky enough to end up with him. And guess what? I did marry him, and I did have his kids.’
The couple welcomed their second child, Atticus, nine in 2015.
Hewitt and Hallisay moved houses in 2020, and the couple thought it the perfect time to renew their vows, and invited Autumn and Atticus to participate.
‘It was very sweet, and it was so great for our kids to be there and have that as a memory,’ the Ghost Whisperer star said of the experience.
She has been happily married to fellow actor Brian Hallisay (pictured above) for over a decade
‘They talk about it all the time, which I love. It was during [the height of] COVID, so we were just grasping for magic at that time.
‘It really did become a magical time for us.’
Another magical moment was when they increased their family with surprise baby Aiden in 2021.
‘We, I think, struggle like most parents with three kids and full-time jobs and all of the things to find our time, but I really do wake up and choose Brian every day, and I would choose him every time,’ she said of her honey.
‘I genuinely feel that way, even when he makes me crazy. And he continues to choose me, thank God. I am always so profoundly happy that my kids are half him.’
