Biography

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Patricia Mae (Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. She has English, Italian, French, Scottish, and German ancestry. She got her first name from her older brother Todd Daniel Hewitt (b. November 8, 1970), who picked the name after a little blonde girl on whom he'd had a crush. Her mother selected Jennifer's middle name, Love (which she goes by offstage), from her best college friend. Her parents separated when she was six months old and her mother raised her in Killeen, Texas.

Hewitt made her official performing debut at age 3 when she sang at a livestock show. At age 5, she was taking tap, jazz, and ballet lessons, which led to her joining the Texas Show Team, who toured the Soviet Union and Europe. When she was 10 her family moved to Los Angeles with encouragement from talent scouts, while Todd stayed behind to finish high school in Texas Jennifer quickly found commercial work and a role on Disney's Kids Incorporated (1984) in 1989. She went through a series of television flops before finally hitting it big on Party of Five (1994) in 1995.
- IMDb mini biography by: John Sacksteder <jsack@ka.net>

Is slightly claustrophobic and, while filming an episode of Ghost Whisperer (2005), in an underground tunnel set, a removable wall had to be installed so she could get out quickly.
Gave birth to her first child at age 34, a daughter named Autumn James Hallisay, born on November 26, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Child's father is her husband, Brian Hallisay.
Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her daughter Autumn, to begin filming on Criminal Minds (2005), but decided to leave after one season, to spend time with her second child after he or she is born.
She was offered a role on the WB's Charmed (1998), taking over Shannen Doherty's place, which she turned down (2001).
Sent three dozen pink roses to Gwyneth Paltrow the night before Paltrow won the Oscar in 1999. Hewitt also wrote her a two-page letter praising her as a role model and admiring her work. Paltrow sent a reply a week later, and Hewitt framed it - "it's my favorite thing." When the two actresses met for the first time at the 2000 Golden Globes, "she came up to me and gave me a hug for the flowers. I thought I was going to pass out. I was absolutely going to have a heart attack.".

[In a Playboy interview, Love commented about her breasts] I just accepted them as a great accessory to every outfit.
When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belonged somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as, "God, you freak".
I don't consider myself a great dresser either. But I try. Most of the time, I'm in khakis and a white T-shirt. I'm a total Gap girl. Super casual, hair in a pony tail and no makeup. - in response to being voted as one of the Worst Dressed by People magazine.
We had this joke on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). All the girls wore tiny tops, so we called it "I Know What Your Breasts Did Last Summer".
I try to find things that are insanely cheap and brilliant. My Bonne Bell lip gloss is about 75 cents, and I have worn it as my lipstick to almost every main event in Hollywood in the past two years.