Jennifer Love Hewitt stars in a new Lifetime movie premiering in July as a housewife who saves her family from financial ruin by secretly turning tricks. It looks melodramatic and cheesy as hell, but it isn’t anything new for Hewitt, apart from the “playing a hooker” part. (I think, although she did play a Stripper in some kind of ghost-taking-over/dream scenario in The Ghost Whisperer.)

Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a mother who secretly turns to prostitution in the upcoming Lifetime movie ‘The Client List.’

As you can see in the trailer below, she starts turning tricks to get her family through the economic downturn and soon is buying her husband expensive gifts and deceiving Cybill Shepherd in a Southern drawl. Her whoring eventually catches up with her and she ends up in jail, forced to out her list of high-profile clients to keep custody of her kids even though she “doesn’t want to hurt any of those guys.”

‘The Client List’ airs Monday July 19 on Lifetime.

[From Huffington Post]

Kaiser does not care for J-Love, but I have a kind of affection for her. Sure she has a messed up body image and gives conflicting statements about it, but people constantly ask her about it and it’s not like she’s lying. She’s still coming to terms with this stuff. That doesn’t explain why she put out a dating and self help book despite the fact that she could use help in both departments, but I can’t hate on her. She is who she is.

As for the state of Hewitt’s career, she seems to be hustling for work after Ghost Whisperer was canceled. I’m kind of surprised she’s resorting to Lifetime movies, but after checking her IMDB page it seems more like a natural progression. The last film I remember seeing her in was 2001’s Heartbreakers and those Garfield movies, although in the past 10 years she’s done a few other films that I’d never heard of. From my quick check this is her first movie for Lifetime, but she did a 2005 TV movie for Oxygen called Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber. She’s not exactly movie star material at this point, but she’s hanging in there and still working. I would love to see her get another starring role on a television series. I know she has a lot of fans. Hell, I might be one of them. I thought Ghost Whisperer was cheesy as hell but I actually watched it – occasionally.