Jennifer Love Hewitt On Being Sexualized As A Teenager & How “Aging In Hollywood Is Really Hard”
deadline.comJennifer Love Hewitt is reflecting on how she was sexualized as a teenager and the difficulties of aging in Hollywood. The 9-1-1 star became a teen idol starring in shows like Party of Five and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Can’t Hardly Wait.
Having found fame at such a young age came with its difficulties and Hewitt opened up about her feelings during that time while being a guest on the Dec.
5 episode of the Inside of You podcast. “I felt watched. I felt like I had to be everything for everybody all the time,” Hewitt said. “I was called sexy before I ever knew what being sexy was.
I was 17 years old on the cover of Maxim, and I had no idea why.” The Time of Your Life alum also noted that she finds it “weird” when people want her to continue being the girl that she was back then adding, “That girl was so insecure and so confused.
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