page_title: Jennifer Love Hewitt
section_title: Public image
hierarchical_section_title: Jennifer Love Hewitt / Public image
caption_attribution_description: English: Interview with Jennifer Love Hewitt
context_page_description: Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, producer and singer. Hewitt began her career as a child actress and singer, appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She had her breakthrough as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the FOX teen drama Party of Five and rose to fame as a teen star for her role as Julie James in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer and its 1998 sequel, as well as Amanda Beckett in the teen comedy film Can't Hardly Wait.
  Hewitt's other notable films include Heartbreakers, The Tuxedo and the two Garfield live-action films. She has starred as Melinda Gordon on the CBS supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer, Riley Parks on the Lifetime drama series The Client List, Special Agent Kate Callahan on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, and since 2018, Maddie Buckley on the FOX police procedural 9-1-1. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for The Client List pilot film.
  In music, Hewitt has released four studio albums to date.
context_section_description: Regarded as a sex symbol, Hewitt's public "narrative" throughout her career has been that of "the sexy girl next door [or] the MVP of Maxim". As noted by Elle magazine, it was "bequeathed" to her around the time she turned 18 and starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Can't Hardly Wait (1998), roles which, along with Party of Five, "cemented her status as an icon to a whole generation. Every girl wanted to be her, and every boy had a poster of her on his wall". On her public image, she said: "I think when you start [in Hollywood] younger, the narrative takes off without you. And you kind of go, ‘Oh, okay [...] so I'm that person? Great!’ Before I ever knew in my life what 'sexy' was, I was on the sexy list”. 
  Hewitt has appeared in several magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women. In 2002, she was voted 7th in FHM's Sexiest Girls poll, 14th in Rush's Sexiest Women list, and 11th in Stuff's "102 Sexiest Women in the World". She has ranked 32nd, 20th, 35th, 20th, 6th, and 35th in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013, and 2014 respectively. Hewitt was identified as the "number one reader choice" on the November 1999 and May 2009 covers of Maxim. TV Guide named her the sexiest woman on television in 2008.
  Hewitt graced the February 1997 cover of Seventeen, and in subsequent years, the list went on to include Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, GQ, CosmoGirl, Shape, Health, Maxim, FHM, Vanidades and Jane. Hewitt has appeared in numerous print advertisements and commercials for brands such as Victoria Golf,  Mrs. Smith, Colonial's Iron Kids Bread, Levi's, Barbie, LA Gear, Chex,  Proactiv, Hanes, Neutrogena, Nokia, Jansport and America's Dairy Producers. In 2000, Hewitt was named the "most popular actress on television", as her Q Score —the industry's measure of celebrities' likability— was 37, and in 2008, she ranked as 96th on the annual Celebrity 100 list by Forbes magazine, which ranks the most powerful and best-paid celebrities in Hollywood.
caption: Hewitt in 2011
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