During a candid conversation on the podcast Inside of You, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt revealed that she never felt like she was "in her body" because she was constantly sexualized, even and especially at a young age.
“I didn’t feel self-confident. I felt watched. I felt like I had to be everything for everybody all the time,” Hewitt told Inside of You host Michael Rosenbaum. “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 I was on the cover of Maxim. I was honored. I loved it. But why?”
When she was in her early twenties, the now 44-year-old Ghost Whisperer actress says that while shooting the 2001 film Heartbreakers, the director told her: "We need you to be sexier."
"I had to pull him aside and be like, 'I don't know what that means. I'm only 23," Hewitt added. "I know that I'm supposed to be this thing for people, but I don't know what that means. He had to help me figure that out."
David Mirkin directed Heartbreakers, which also starred Sigourney Weaver.
