Jennifer Love Hewitt Opens Up About Turning 40

Jennifer Love Hewitt is on the cover of Working Mother‘s April/May 2019 issue, out on March 5.

Here’s what the 40-year-old 9-1-1 actress had to say…

On how losing her mother and talking to her kids about the grandmother they’ll never meet spurred an idea, writing a children’s book: “There are not a lot of books out there that in a childlike way teach children about deceased grandparents. I think that’s an important book because people are having children later in life.”

On turning 40: “A lot of my friends have already turned 40, and in watching them and my husband, there’s this settling in with who you are and being OK with it that’s lovely. I like this version of me because I have two amazing children and a great husband. I am exactly where I hoped I would be.”

On being away from her young children for her new show 9-1-1:
“The first four episodes, there was a lot of trying to be present and then constantly checking for the world to be falling apart around me. A couple of days went long, so I wasn’t home to put them to bed. It was my first time not doing that, so [my] lip would quiver, and there were some tears.”

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