America’s Sweetheart is Already, or Only, 31 Years Old. Jennifer Love Hewitt is thirty-one years old, and the years somehow have been both kind and difficult. Jennifer Love Hewitt comfortably inhabits that twilight area of American celebrity, which is to say she is not an A-List celebrity but would never be considered a B-Lister either; she is far too adorable and lovable for that.

Appearing on The Today Show on Tuesday morning to promote her book, The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-aholic, Love Hewitt still radiates that sweet, wholesome girl next door look and image that everybody wants to protect, even though she has also dated an uncouth rock star in John Mayer and been roasted by the press for appearing less than perfect in a 2007 candid bikini shot.

As a star through the years on the underrated Party of Five television show and then a sexpot in the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, Love Hewitt has always been that girl that people more hate to love than love to hate. But Love Hewitt is now growing out of her twenties and it shows; but in a positive sense. She is gaining rave reviews for her work as Melissa Gordon on the CBS show The Ghost Whisperer. In it, she plays a woman that regularly communicates with ghosts; it may be Love Hewitt’s most realistic and mature work to date. And now, ironically enough, Hewitt Love publishes her book on love as she is fresh off of a break up with yet another boyfriend, this time her Ghost Whisperer co-star Jamie Kennedy.

What is not clear is how much being single bothers Love Hewitt. At an age when many are thinking of settling down and finding a life long mate, she has seemingly taken each of the bumps along the way in stride. Even the title of her book, incorporating ‘Love-aholic’, seems to poke fun at the perception that she has a challenge staying in any relationship for long, but keeps coming back for more.

What Love Hewitt does seem to be doing very well is settling into her post ‘young lady’ phase and moving with grace, talent and beauty to the next phase of her professional life, regardless of what may lay in store for her in her personal one.

From Associated Content

Best way to get over a breakup? A new hairdo.

After announcing her split from boyfriend (and Ghost Whisperer costar) Jamie Kennedy, Jennifer Love Hewitt has chopped off all her hair. She first debuted the look on St. Patrick’s Day and stepped out again over the weekend.

Hewitt, 31, and Kennedy, 39, confirmed their romance in March 2009. At the time, he declared to Ryan Seacrest, “I’m in love!” and called Hewitt “hot.” He recently joked about their split on Twitter. “Kate Winslet, Sandra Bullock and I are all going to have tea later and talk bout relationships. whos [SIC] in?” he wrote. “Pass the scones….”

From Us

Jennifer Love Hewitt has assured fans she’s “totally fine” following her split from ex-boyfriend and Ghost Whisperer co-star Jamie Kennedy, insisting it was a “mutual” decision to part ways. The actors began dating early last year following the breakdown of Hewitt’s engagement to Ross McCall.

Hewitt and Kennedy confirmed they were going their separate ways last week, but the actress insists they are still close. She tells People.com, “(It was) a mutual decision and we’ve parted as friends. There’s no anger, there’s no upset, there’s no enemies.” Hewitt credits their friendship prior to their romance for helping to make the transition from lovers back to pals an easy one. She adds, “It’s been totally fine. It’s really a testament to who he is and to who I am. We’re both grown-ups.”

But the 31-year-old admits she’s not thrilled about returning to life as a single gal: “I don’t like to go out to clubs and party. I’m not into ”Let’s go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday” – that’s just not me. I’m a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don’t.”

From Teen Hollywood

Single ladies, take heart: Even Jennifer Love Hewitt is daunted by the idea of diving back into the dating pool after a breakup. “I don’t like to go out to clubs and party. I’m not into ‘Let’s go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday — that’s just not me,” Hewitt, 31, tells PEOPLE. “I’m a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don’t.”

Hewitt and her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy, 39, quietly split recently after a year together. It was “a mutual decision, and we’ve parted as friends,” says Hewitt. “There’s no anger, there’s no upset, there’s no enemies.” Hewitt adds that the pair’s pre-existing friendship has made it easy to transition to working together as exes: “It’s been totally fine. It’s really a testament to who he is and to who I am. We’re both grown-ups.”

Ironically, the split comes just as The Day I Shot Cupid, Hewitt’s new book offering advice and wisdom on dating and relationships hits bookstores. Subtitled Hello, My Name is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-aholic, the book, out March 23, includes Hewitt’s own dating horror stories, admissions about her fantasy engagement rings (she’s been visiting the same store since age 12 to try them on) and advice on everything from getting over breakups to dieting and cellulite. It also includes a chapter written by her then-boyfriend Kennedy in which he rhapsodizes about women’s curves — derrieres in particular, saying he prefers “junko in the trunko” and calling big butts “sexy, strong, and yummy.”

Hewitt says she has “no idea” when she’ll be ready to date again, though she plans to re-read her own book for advice (and is already at work penning a follow-up).

“Back in the shark tank!” she jokes. “I never said in the book that I knew how to be in the perfect relationship. I say in my book I want to be the readers’ kind spirit out in the dating world. And now, more than ever, I am.” So for now is Hewitt content to be an independent working woman, or does the self-described “hopeless romantic” still yearn to find true love? “Both,” she says. “I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I’d like to have it all.”

For exclusive excerpts from her book and more on Hewitt, including her dating dos and don’ts, what she loves — and doesn’t — about her body, and her breakup with Jamie Kennedy, pick up a copy of PEOPLE on newsstands Friday

From People

Jennifer is going to be a guest on the “Today” show on Tuesday, March 23rd! The show airs on the NBC network in the morning – please check your local TV listings for air times in your area.

After a year-long romance, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy have broken up, a rep has confirmed exclusively to PEOPLE.

No further details were available. Though some in the blogosphere called them an unlikely couple, Kennedy and Hewitt regularly gushed over each other. When Kennedy first confirmed the romance in March 2009, he told Ryan Seacrest during a radio interview, “I’m in love!” Describing his costar on Ghost Whisperer, Kennedy said: “It’s like, ‘Wow, you are hot. You can sing, you can dance, you’re like, so smart and, wow, you can cook pasta fagioli, too.’ ”

Hewitt called her beau “hilarious,” but praised him as more than just a funnyman. “There are people in your life who are just supportive and who just look at you and they see who you are,” Hewitt told Ellen DeGeneres last year. “And [Jamie] really saw who I was as a person more than anybody had ever done in my whole life. I think that’s for me when I sort of went, ‘Oh, wow.'”

From People

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has been roped in to play a hooker with a heart of gold in a new TV movie.

“It’s sort of like Erin Brockovich in a brothel,” she said. Hewitt’s boyfriend, Jamie Kennedy, is excited about the actress’ new hard-hitting role, reports imdb.com. “It’s time for her to start showing everyone what I already know,” he added.

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