\nAs one of Hollywood\u2019s hottest young stars of the 1990s, Jennifer Love Hewitt was poised to become a celebrated actor with respectable adult performances for decades to come.\n
But in 2015, the star of the hit TV show Ghost Whisperer, the \u201cit girl\u201d who tabloids loved, ghosted Hollywood, leaving fans speculating on the reason behind her disappearance.\n
It is not an exaggeration to say that Jennifer Love Hewitt was one of the biggest teen stars of the nineties. I mean, who didn\u2019t fall for Jennifer Love\u2019s Hewitt?\n
According to me, she possessed the most captivating smile, and there was something truly heartwarming and genuine about her presence.\n
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After appearing in several TV commercials, Hewitt, now 44, had her big break when she was only 10 with the Disney Channel\u2019s Kids Incorporated (1989 to 1991).\n The show, about young people who perform in a rock band, served as a launching pad for many celebrities, like Fergie of the Grammy-winning band Black Eyed Peas, Mario Lopez, of Saved by the Bell and Access Hollywood, And Eric Balfour who had starring roles in 24 and Haven.\n Of course, also Hewitt, who was later cast as a regular on the popular TV drama Party of Five, where she starred with an ensemble cast of Scott Wolf, Matthew Fox, Neve Campbell, and Lacy Chabert.\n When Party of Five ended after six seasons in 1999, Hewitt then went on to star in touchstone films of the 1990s like the teen horror franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997 and 1998) and the teen drama Can\u2019t Hardly Wait (1998).\n In 2001, Hewitt starred as the daughter of Sigourney Weaver\u2019s character in the film Heartbreakers, an appearance that Roger Ebert critiqued in his review as Hewitt spending \u201cthe entire film with her treasures on display, maybe as product placement for the Wonderbra.\u201d\n Hewitt, who\u2019s had a turbulent relationship with the media since she started filling out as a woman, said in a 2018 interview with LA Times, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t actually until later, in the time when I took the step back, that I went \u201cugh.\u201d It\u2019s the worst\u2013that\u2019s not what I want to be remembered for.\u201d She continued, \u201cI don\u2019t want my kid to Google me one day and see \u2018She looks terrible\u2019 or \u2018She has big boobs and she\u2019s hot.\u2019 I don\u2019t want that to be who I am.\u201d\n In 2002, she co-starred with Jackie Chan in the spy parody Tuxedo, where she was mostly covered up, oftentimes wearing the superpower-holding tuxedo.\n Returning to TV in 2005, she played Melinda Gordon, a woman who communicates with the dead, in Ghost Whisperer.\n Though the show failed to earn the respect of critics, it still had a loyal following. Hewitt said she was crushed when Ghost Whisperer was abruptly canceled in 2010, leaving viewers hanging.\n \u201cFor me, it was a total shock\u2026 I thought our next season probably would be the last, just because the show had been on for a really long time,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to come up with new things that will keep people intrigued, but I never thought in a million years that was going to have been our last season.\u201d\n In 2012, Hewitt earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in the Client List, where she plays a single mother, who makes a living as an erotic masseuse to support her children.\n While filming Client List, Hewitt, also a singer, met her first and only husband, Brian Hallisay, who in the show plays the deadbeat dad to her on-screen children.\n In real life, Hallisay is a great husband and father of three. The two married in 2013 and had their first daughter, Autumn, days after they wed. The pair then had Atticus in 2015, and Aiden in 2021.\n Having worked tirelessly since she was a child, Hewitt slipped away from the spotlight in 2015, explaining that she needed time to be a wife and mother.\n \u201cThere was a lot going on in my own life that just felt like I needed some space and some time to kind of be. I\u2019ve really enjoyed the break, and I feel like now, the last few months, having gone back into acting, it\u2019s really done a beautiful thing for me in that it\u2019s made everything that I do in my acting\/entertainment life not less important but less like, \u2018It\u2019s everything all the time,\u2019 like it used to be.\u201d\n In her time away, Hewitt was also trying to heal from the death of her mother, who was 67 when she died of cancer in 2012, a loss she says still \u201cfeels very raw.\u201d\n During this challenging period in her life, Jennifer made the decision to leave Twitter as well. For some reason, she faced a great deal of hate on the platform.\n Being pregnant, she couldn\u2019t handle all the negativity and hostility, so she chose to step away from Twitter, which caused quite a stir.\n \u201dUnfortunately with all the negativity people choose to send on twitter as well as threats to their own well being I\u2019m sad to say Twitter is no longer for me,\u201d Jennifer wrote in 2013.\n Since starting her career in 1989, Jennifer Love Hewitt has embarked on an incredible transformation journey, both physically and emotionally.\n Unfortunately, she has also experienced the downsides of Hollywood, celebrity status, and objectification by tabloids. Some online media outlets went too far and made some really derogatory and harsh comments when bikini photos of Jennifer were leaked, highlighting her weight gain. Some of these outlets commented on her bikini pictures, saying things like \u201cI know what you ate last summer.\u201d\n Jennifer could handle the tough comments, but she worried about how the pictures and headlines were impacting other girls struggling with their body image.\n In a powerful response, she directed a message to all the \u201dgirls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist\u201d and instructed them to \u201cput on a bikini, put it on, and stay strong\u201d.\n The Ghost Whisperer star encouraged them to proudly wear a bikini, stay strong, and embrace themselves as they are. Jennifer has gone through several weight journeys, sought the help of personal trainers, and strives to live a healthy lifestyle.\n
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