Jennifer Love Hewitt Praised For Her Curves As Fans Defend The '90s Icon From Body-Shaming Trolls

Jennifer Love Hewitt can rest assured that her fans would always come through for her, especially when she's being trolled for her looks.

The "Can't Hardly Wait" actress was met with harsh criticism when she dazzled in a beaded black dress on a recent red carpet appearance, but her fans have spoken up in her defense, praising how "amazing" she looks.

Jennifer Love Hewitt has previously spoken about the online chatter on her appearance, saying she's "deeply grateful" for her life and is "ready to give love" to her younger and older self.

Hewitt turned heads in a black dress adorned with beads at the July 14 premiere of the newest film in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" franchise.

The 46-year-old actress rocked a copper hairdo and paired her dress with sparkling heels and rings.

Hewitt, who rose to fame in the 1990s with starring roles in "Party of Five" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," has remained endeared to her fans even though she hasn't been a constant feature on the Hollywood red carpet over the last couple of years.

Hewitt's recent appearance on the red carpet was met with criticism, prompting fans to take to social media to defend her.

"Jennifer Love Hewitt looks great, people need to stop comparing people to their younger versions, we all change over time," a fan wrote. "She's beautiful."

"I am a Jennifer Love Hewitt fan. It saddens me to see petty b-tches online fat shaming a woman who is 46 and has three kids," another fan said. "In my opinion, she looks amazing. You get older. You gain weight. It happens. Many people look jacked up on plastic surgery. She looks great."

A third fan penned, "Not to mention, it's mainly women that I see degrading her. Shameful considering that as women we should know to do better."

"Idk what you all are talking about, Jennifer Love Hewitt looks amazing!" a fan penned. "You all are just a bunch of haters and think real women look like damn cartoon characters."

"I think she's gonna be the one who sets the trend back to it's okay to age gracefully. I'm so sick of seeing the plastic faces and bodies," one X user said.

Another person added, "She looks exactly the same. She is beautiful. She just had her third kid in 2021. Leave her alone."

The "Ghost Whisperer" alum appeared undeterred by the chatter and took to Instagram to share more videos of herself promoting the movie.

"Okay, here I am. I'm getting ready to do a very important podcast, can you guess? What are you waiting for?" she said in the video while winking and using her famous catchphrase from the film.

She has previously opened up about her thoughts on aging when she posted a makeup-free selfie with no filter back in February.

"I have experienced and seen how the world can be cruel to women as they age and yet seen the women I admire become happier, sexier, and more powerful with every added number," she captioned the post on Instagram.

Hewitt added, "I am so deeply grateful for this life. I love all who choose to do it by my side, and I am ready to give love today to the younger me and the older me because they are my ride or dies."

Speaking on an episode of Mayim Bialik's "Breakdown" podcast in January, Hewitt reflected on the unsettling experience of being overly sexualized as a teenager, recalling how it was once normalized in Hollywood.

The "Ghost Whisperer" star, now 45, opened up about the inappropriate attention she received in her early years.

"There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it," she shared. "It was a culture that was fully accepted, but when you sit and you look at where we are now versus then, it is really mind-blowing."

Hewitt admitted that being labeled a "sex symbol" before she even understood the concept felt "really strange," adding, "I didn't know what being sexy meant."

She recalled how men would approach her with unsettling remarks after posing for Maxim in 1999 at just 17.

"People would openly walk up and be like, 'I took your magazine with me on a trip last week," Hewitt said, per Page Six. "I didn't really know what that meant. It's kind of gross."

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Hewitt discussed how ageism has impacted her lengthy career in Hollywood and how she is embracing the journey of self-love and aging with grace.

The actress said, "I feel like fans pick this age that they love that they think represents you, and you're never supposed to grow beyond that. For me, it was like me and my 20s. People seem to have a really hard time accepting that I don't look that way anymore."

She continued: "It's hard because I think as humans, we want to evolve … we want to have lines on our faces, and you know, our boobs be lower from breast-feeding our children, or you know, our butt's bigger."

"Whatever it is, you just want to have the freedom to be whoever you are at that age. And it's hurtful sometimes when people reject you as you are verbally on Instagram or the internet because they're having a hard time adjusting to it," Hewitt added.