Jennifer Love-Hewitt: 'i Wish I'd Spent My Youth Nude'.

Jennifer Love-hewitt: 'i Wish I'd Spent My Youth Nude'....

Jennifer Love-Hewitt regrets not showing off her body more when she was younger and sexier.

The actress is showing off a new toned physique just months after she was ridiculed because of snaps of her on a beach in Hawaii sporting a fuller figure.

But she wishes she had made the most of her youth and flaunted her body more when she didn't have to watch her weight.

Love-Hewitt - who turns 30 next February (09) - tells the September issue of Health magazine, "I wish I had been nude from the time I was 12 until I was 28.

I looked great! 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. I used to scoff and say, 'No, I feel fat today!' Now the joke's on me.

"I want to tell all young girls to walk around in bikinis all summer, because there will be that one day in your twenties when you'll eat a hamburger and actually see the hamburger on the side of your leg".

Jennifer Love Hewitt Hit Back At Weight Critics With New Figure.

Jennifer Love Hewitt Hit Back At Weight Critics With New Figure....

Jennifer Love Hewitt has hit back at critics who ridiculed her for putting on weight - by showing off her new slimline figure in a U.S. magazine.

The Ghost Whisperer star was infamously snapped in her black two-piece swimsuit as she enjoyed a dip in the sea in November (07),
The weight-gain attracted much unwanted attention, with celebrity website Tmz.com profiling the snaps alongside the headline: "We know what you ate this summer, Love - everything!" And the star went on to lash out at the media, saying, "It made me feel a little embarrassed to be honest. It made me a little sad. It hurt my feelings."

But Love-Hewitt has had the last laugh, after shedding 18 pounds (8.16 kilograms) through a rigorous exercise programme.

She tells Usmagazine.Com, "I am in a pretty good workout regimen that I like, so it inspired me to keep it up. The energy level and the way I feel now is great."

And Love Hewitt's trainer, Stevie Sant'Angelo, insists the dramatic image overhaul has nothing to do with the unflattering snaps.

He adds, "She told me, 'They said some rude, mean things, but that's not why I wanted to change