In an interview with Fox Information Digital, the 45-year-old actress opened up about being criticized over her altering look, saying that some followers have a “exhausting time accepting” that she does not look the identical as she did when she was a teen or in her 20s.

“Age is age. I feel ladies actually come into this… acceptance of themselves and comfortability of their 40s that’s stunning,” Hewitt stated.

The Ghost Whisperer star — who shares daughter Autumn, 11, and sons Atticus, 9, and Aidan, 3, with husband Brian Hallisay — shared that whereas she’s having fun with being in her mid-40s, it has been troublesome seeing how followers have reacted to growing old.

“The instances that it is exhausting for me although… Taylor Swift truly stated it in certainly one of her documentaries. She was like, ‘I really feel like followers choose, this you, this age, that they love that they assume represents you, and also you’re by no means purported to develop past that,’” she stated.

“For me… it was like me and my 20s… individuals appear to have a very exhausting time accepting that… I do not look that means anymore,” Hewitt continued.

“It is exhausting as a result of I feel as people, we need to evolve… we need to have traces on our faces, and you realize, our boobs be decrease from breast-feeding our kids, or you realize, our butt’s larger,” she added with fun.

I Know What You Did Final Summer time actress stated she feels that followers have “reject[ed]” her look, and have voiced that to her on social media.

“No matter it’s, you simply need to have the liberty to be whoever you might be at that age,” she informed Fox Information Digital. “And it is hurtful typically when individuals reject you as you might be verbally on Instagram or the web as a result of they’re having a tough time adjusting to it.”

Finally, Hewitt famous that she takes challenge with the criticism as a result of she does not need her kids to see the adverse feedback.

“I’ve a daughter, I am delicate to it as a result of I do not need my children to learn these issues and really feel that means… or fear about me being damage by it… it is exhausting to do this typically,” she stated.

Hewitt has beforehand opened up about her ideas on growing old as a girl in Hollywood.

In September 2023, critics accused the Cannot Hardly Wait star of being “unrecognizable” after she confirmed off a hair transformation on Instagram. On the time, some individuals on-line speculated she had extra than simply her hair finished.

Whereas talking on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside You podcast in December 2023, Hewitt addressed the remark, saying that she did not actually assume a lot past the second when she opted to make use of a filter on the image as a result of she had “not a sew of make-up on.”

“A bunch of individuals have been like, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable,’” Hewitt stated. “‘She’s unrecognizable, so she’s gone to filters as a result of she does not need us to understand how dangerous she truly appears now in her 40s.’”