Jennifer Love Hewitt is well aware of possible judgments about her character in the Lifetime film The Client List: a married mother of three turned prostitute. Bring it on — that’s part of the fun, she says. “You do root for her and you do judge her, and you love that you judge her and by the end of it, you really forgive her for all that she’s done,” the 31-year-old Hewitt says. “Sometimes the best role models, and the people you should look up to the most, are the ones who actually do make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them.”

The Client List, premiering Monday at 9/8c, is based on the true story of Samantha Horton, a woman who takes a position at a massage parlor only to find herself smack in the middle of a prostitution ring after she and her husband both lose their jobs. “It really struck me, particularly where we are in the world economically. This is real stuff that people are dealing with,” Hewitt says. “And I loved that, in this, it was about female empowerment. It was really her taking care of her family and I loved her struggle.”

For the role, Hewitt trained by taking pole-dancing classes (she now has a pole in her house for her workout regimen), but did little other research before filming began. “I wanted to learn as Sam was learning it and I think it helped me in doing that,” Hewitt says. “This project in particular, I really went on the journey with her because I didn’t do any real research or any preparation. … I really felt for Sam and her story and her struggle.” It was this emotional journey with Samantha that makes the character, and the film, one of Hewitt’s favorite roles in her 20-plus-year acting career. “Emotionally, this was one of the hardest things I ever had to do because it was work that I didn’t understand. It was, quite honestly, a world that I was judgmental of before I did the part,” she says. “It was difficult, but it would probably be a tie now between Sam and Audrey [Hepburn in The Audrey Hepburn Story].”

Besides showing her emotional range, the film is also a testament to Hewitt’s personal growth and being “at the right place” in her life to take on this part. “I’ve had these types of things come around a lot and I never did them because I was like, ‘I couldn’t even act that if I tried. I don’t know that woman yet, I don’t know that part.’ And I do right now, where I am in my life,” she says. “I was ready to be open to a new side of life and see why certain woman do things and find themselves in this situation.”

Looking to the future, Hewitt says she’s still figuring out what to tackle next. Despite Ghost Whisperer‘s surprise cancellation in May after five seasons on CBS, she says she’s looking at some TV projects as well as film roles. After showing a new side of herself in The Client List, she sounds ready to continue experimenting and jumping between genres. “Some of the TV stuff I’m looking at is comedy stuff. I think maybe if I do jump in, I’d like to try something a little lighter and maybe not with the one-hour drama schedule,” she says. “But I’m not in a rush to move back into TV right away, and if I do, it will probably be under different circumstances.”

From Fox News

The Ghost Whisperer star is convinced women the world over would feel better if they followed her example and threw out their bathroom scales — because she feels far more confident about her body since she did so. “I don’t have scales anymore and I don’t weigh myself,” she said. “I would urge women everywhere to throw out their scales. Even when I go to the doctor’s office, I’m like, ‘Don’t tell me. Just write it on your chart and don’t tell me.’ It does you no good to know.”

Jennifer recently urged young women not to obsess about weight. “When I meet young girls, I’m always like, ‘Just do me one favor,'” she said last month. “Love what you look like right now — and remember I said it 10 years from now because it is the greatest gift I can give.”

From Showbiz Spy

Jennifer Love Hewitt, 31 (her movie The Client List premieres on Lifetime July 19 at 9 P.M.) shares the 25 things you don’t know about her with UsMagazine.com.

1. I watch two episodes of Friends every night before bed.

2. I hate to fly alone.

3. I just started drinking coffee this year.

4. I’m obsessed with making mix CDs.

5. I have a fear of big birds.

6. I love to salsa dance.

7. I always try to find a Dairy Queen everywhere I travel.

8. I have three toes the same size.

9. I can’t stand cooked carrots.

10. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 20. And I didn’t learn to ride a bike until I was 29!

11. I used to have a pet pig.

12. I own a boat and love to drive it.

13. I make really good onion dip.

14. I once paid a company to make it snow in my mom’s yard on Christmas.

15. I can do tricks on roller skates.

16. Growing up, I wanted to be a cashier at a grocery store.

17. I’ve been to Japan 15 times.

18. I love to paint.

19. I know how to do card tricks.

20. I’ve never been on a big roller coaster.

21. I love to play poker.

22. I love dirty jokes.

23. I love afternoon tea in different cities.

24. I fall asleep with the TV on.

25. I read my horoscope every day.

From US Weekly

I have just added photos of Jennifer from her new movie, The Client List. I added 21 HQ photos including stills, posters and promos!

The Client List will be airing on the Lifetime television network on July 19 at 9 pm et/pt!

Jennifer is going to be a guest on the talk show “The View” on Thursday, July 15th!

Make sure you set your recorders and watch!

Jennifer Love Hewitt has revealed how moving books in her home have made her wonder if ghosts are real.

The 31-year-old stars in Ghost Whisperer – which has just been canceled after five seasons – playing Melinda Gordon, who can talk to ghosts, and a recent encounter made her question whether it’s more than just a TV show. Jennifer revealed: “I’ve definitely had some weird experiences – I had something weird happen in my house two weeks ago.” She explained: “I collect little miniature antique books and I had a bunch of them on this one shelf in my living room and I heard this really loud noise when I was upstairs in my bedroom. I came down and all the books were all over the floor and I was like ‘well that’s weird, but ok maybe… I don’t know’. “So I gather the books back up and I put them back on the shelf and I go back upstairs and the second I go upstairs I hear this slamming noise again and all the books were on the floor again. I was like, ‘Alright, honestly, I was just with you all day at work, really you’ve got to come home with me too?’ “Then I realized that I was a normal person, me, just an actress, standing in my house, talking to someone who probably wasn’t there and there was obviously like a tilt problem with the bookshelf and my books were on the floor and I was thinking it was a ghost and having a conversation with myself. “I was like ‘maybe I should have a vacation or two?’.”

From The Press Association

Jennifer Love Hewitt has revealed fans of her show The Ghost Whisperer are always sharing their paranormal experiences with her. The 31-year-old plays Melinda Gordon, who is able to speak to dead people, in the hit CBS show – which has just been canceled after five seasons – and viewers often share their real-life encounters with her.

Jennifer revealed: “I have a lot of very unusual, incredibly emotional experiences with people where people will just come up to me and they’ll be like, ‘Can you just sit with me a second? I have to tell you my story because it had to do with the storyline last Friday night’, and then they’ll just start balling like, in the mall.” She added: “Then I have other times when I have people who will just be convinced that there is a ghost attached to them and that I need to get it off of them, right there when I’m buying lettuce in the middle of the grocery store. It kind of goes from both spectrums, from really touching to really funny. People really think that Melinda Gordon is alive and well and out there ready to help!”

The actress revealed she tries to think what her character would do so she can help the people she meets. She said: “I’ve had to learn the right thing to say because a lot of them are very emotional and they really need somebody to help. So I sort of have these unofficial medium cards in my purse that I can pass out to people with real medium information on it and I can say ‘why don’t you call this person and they will help you’.”

From The Press Association