Jennifer Love Hewitt - The Ghost Whisperer

Quote: "I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute."

Early life and Career

In Waco Texas, the date is 21st of February 1979 an American singer, actress and songwriter Jennifer Love Hewitt was born. She was the daughter of Partricia Mae and Herbert Daniel Hewitt. Her name was given to her by her brother after a girl he was fond of as a youngster, while her middle name Love was given by her mother after her bestfriend in college. As a young girl Hewitt became attracted to music and at the early age of three she sang The Greatest Love of all at a livestock show. By the time she was five, Hewitt had her tap dancing and ballet, at the age of nine she became a member of the Texas Show Team and at the age of ten she won the title of Texas Our Little Miss Talent Winner, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue both her career in singing and acting. Hewitt being talented had given 20 commercials and continuous offer in participating in different roles of tv shows and movies. After moving to Los Angeles, Hewitt became well-known for her television and film roles in the Fox television series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS television program Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who can communicate with the ghosts of the dead.

Personal life

Hewitt is an honorary godparent of the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund. She helped design and signed a pair of shoes for the Stuart Weitzman charity shoe auction benefiting ovarian cancer awareness and research. Hewitt was seen wearing a “Save the Future” t-shirt in support of the Cotton Campaign run by the Environmental Justice Foundation. The proceeds of the t-shirts are going to continue to fight the use of child labour in the production of cotton.

She began dating Scottish actor Ross McCall in January 2006 after he made an appearance on Ghost Whisperer. In November 2007, while vacationing in Hawaii, the couple became engaged. Some paparazzi photographs secretly taken during this vacation show Hewitt with a slightly higher weight than previously and were subsequently criticized by bloggers. Hewitt responded: "I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized.... What I should be doing is celebrating some of the best days of my life and my engagement to the man of my dreams, instead of having to deal with photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles." She has also dated singer-guitarist John Mayer, talk show host Carson Daly, actor/model Kip Pardue, writer Chris Benson, singer-songwriter Rich Cronin, actor and singer Joey Lawrence, professional kayaker Brad Ludden, and actor Will Friedle.