HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Less than a year after she was criticized in various blogs about her bikini shape, Jennifer Love Hewitt is going on a health kick.
The star of the CBS drama "Ghost Whisperer" is whipping herself into shape by taking on a marathon as she prepares to turn 30 next February.
"That's just something I want to give to myself," Hewitt tells Health magazine about her birthday gift to herself. "My concern is not if I run the whole marathon — if I'm running it or walking it doesn't really matter to me. I just want to know that I'm in shape enough that I could do it.
"I'm so excited, although training has been a lot harder than I thought," she adds.
In November, Hewitt went on the defense after bikini-clad photos taken of her in Hawaii made the rounds on the Internet, with many bloggers poking fun at her body.
"I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized," she later wrote on her Web site. "To set the record straight, I'm not upset for me, but for all of the girls out there that are struggling with their body image. A size 2 is not fat! Nor will it ever be. And being a size 0 doesn't make you beautiful.
"To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini — put it on and stay strong."
Hewitt echoed similar sentiments in her latest interview as well.
"I want to tell all young girls to walk around in bikinis all summer — and enjoy it," she tells Health. "I want to tell them to never, ever feel bad about anything, because there will be that one day in your 20s when you'll eat a hamburger and actually see the hamburger on the side of your leg. Initially it's shocking, and you think, 'Whoa, I have to actually think about what I eat and work out double the amount I did before.' Then you go, 'Well, now my body gets to make children, which is so cool.' "
Last year's photo scrutiny came on the heels of Hewitt's engagement to boyfriend Ross McCall, who gave her an antique engagement ring that has been in his family for over 100 years.
"We definitely want to have kids at some point," she tells the magazine. "I have had a great relationship growing up with my mom, and I'd love to give a child what she gave me. I think that being a mother is something I'll be good at."
Thanks to her recent training and yoga workouts, Hewitt is now wishing that she had spent more time in the buff.
"I so wish I had listened to my mom and grandma when I was 18 and would complain about some little tiny bump or feeling bloated," she says. "They'd say, 'Sweetheart, appreciate it for all it's worth because it all changes when you get into your 30s.' I used to scoff and say, 'No, I feel fat today!' Now the joke's on me. I wish I had been nude from the time I was 12 until I was 28. I looked great!"
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