How much is Jennifer Love Hewitt worth?
| Net Worth: | $20 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | February 21, 1979 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.57 m |
About Jennifer Love Hewitt
Before getting her scream on in I Know What You Did Last Summer and returning to television as the Ghost Whisperer, you may have seen her as Sarah Reeves on FOX’s popular drama Party of Five. While the majority of us first saw Jennifer Love Hewitt as a scrawny girl in Party of Five, she has since gone on to become a film, television, and, briefly, music celebrity known for her bad luck with men and her famous (and occasionally infamous) curves.
Southern Belle
Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, in 1979, and at a very young age she started her search for fame. Hewitt and her brother Todd were raised by their mother after their parents’ divorced when they were both six months old.
She began singing at a local livestock show when she was three years old, and by the time she was five, she was enrolling in dance lessons. Jennifer, who likes to go by her middle name, traveled to Los Angeles with her mother to pursue a career as a child star after taking first place in a local beauty competition when she was nine years old. Her major break came when she got a recurring part on the Disney Channel variety program Kids Incorporated, which also counts Fergie as an alumna. This happened after she booked many advertisements.
From Tween To Pinup
Hewitt entered the public eye in 1995 when she was chosen to play Sarah on the television series Party of Five. Love received the female lead in the successful summer scream fests I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, thanks to the well-liked FOX drama, which aired until 1999. She also played the seductive object of Ethan Embry’s attention in the 1999 high-school comedy Can’t Hardly Wait, which made teenage guys drool.
When Hewitt was crowned the most sexiest woman in the world by Maxim readers that year, her role as a sex symbol was cemented.
Hewitt performed pop music on the side. Her biggest hit to date has been “BareNaked,” a song she co-wrote with Meredith Brooks in 2002. She first showcased her vocal prowess when she recorded “How Do I Deal” for the I Still Know soundtrack. She hasn’t appeared on the charts since, although she’s made plans to release country music in 2009.
Hewitt appeared in a number of box office duds after Party of Five was shelved, and her career appeared to be stagnating. When she was chosen to play the lead in CBS’s Ghost Whisperer, she received her second big break in 2005.
The show was shelved in 2010, but she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Movie for another character she played that year as a call girl in the Lifetime Original Movie The Client List.
Love Vs. Love
Her life has been filled with romantic drama, much like Love’s name. She was engaged to Scottish actor Ross McCall and has had romances with people including Carson Daly, John Mayer, Jamie Kennedy, and Joey Lawrence. Her first book, The Day I Shot Cupid, a manual on relationships, was inspired by her amorous highs and lows. Jennifer Love Hewitt is my name, and I’m a love-aholic. She met actor/director Alex Beh in 2010, shortly after divorcing Kennedy, and the two have been together ever then.
In 2007, another aspect of her life came under the spotlight when tabloids and bloggers attacked unflattering photos of Hewitt in a bikini taken on a recent vacation. Hewitt retaliated by denouncing the national media’s close examination of women’s bodies. She eventually lost the excess weight, regaining her slim shape.
Creating a Madness
Of course, Hewitt’s greatest cultural influence might have more to do with some crude remarks she made on Lopez Tonight in January 2010 than with her actual profession. She appeared on the program to sell her book, but instead she started a widespread “vajazzling” trend. Hewitt defined vajazzling as the practice of adorning a woman’s “precious lady” with Swarovski crystals so that it “looks like a little disco ball down there.” As a result, salons from London to Los Angeles are now providing the treatment. The term quickly rose to the top Google searches.
“I would kill someone if they took away my funk food, are you kidding? I would say, ‘Get out of my house, I want my Doritos!’ Eating is my favorite thing to do: anything and everything.”
