Jennifer Love Hewitt looks pretty amazing after losing nearly 20 pounds and a lot of people assumed that her motivation was her upcoming wedding day. Earlier stories had the 29 year-old actress marrying her fiance, 32 year-old actor Ross McCall, in a small ceremony sometime this summer. Her wedding could be on hold, though, reports In Touch, which quotes an insider saying that “things aren’t great between them.” They usually look incredibly happy and in synch with each other, and if it is true that their wedding has been pushed back I would bet there’s another reason, like logistics:

“Things aren’t great between them,” the insider says of the couple, who got engaged last November.

“It’s hard because he’s filming in New Mexico and she’s in LA. The relationship is strained and their wedding won’t happen anytime soon.” While Jennifer has revealed that this summer is out - “I won’t be a sweaty bride,” she has said - another friend insists that everything’s fine. “Jennifer and Ross are very excited,” says the pal. “It will be an intimate ceremony and Ross is having fun helping Jennifer plan it.” Adds her rep, “The wedding is going ahead as planned.”

[From In Touch, print edition, August 25, 2008]

Love Hewitt told reporters in February that her wedding would be “small and private and romantic and wonderful,” and that she might just get married on a whim. “If we kind of wake up and say, ‘Let’s go do it,’ that’s how we will do it.”

I doubt these two are having problems, but if they are it’s probably the things we all go through when we have to be apart from our partner. They’re together now despite their busy woek schedules. The two were photographed out in LA wearing lookalike outfits on Tuesday. It’s hard to judge people in photos, but there’s a quality to McCall that makes him look like an incredibly good guy and I get the impression he’ll make a great husband and dad someday. Love Hewitt is also one of the most genuine and likeable celebrities and it’s nice to see her happy and in love. I’m crossing my fingers for these two to make it official because they’re one of my favorite celebrity couples.

Credit: VAH/Fame Pictures

Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt, 29, and her boyfriend of just over two years, Scottish actor Ross McCall, got engaged last November. McCall presented Hewitt with an antique engagement ring that has been in his family for over 100 years. Hewitt has said that she’s in no hurry to get married, but that she wants a small intimate ceremony and that they may have it at the spur of the moment if they feel like it.

Now the National Enquirer claims that Ross’ immigration status is threatened by the looming actor’s strike and that his work visa will no longer be valid if the strike happens. He could easily be deported back to the UK if that happened. In order to ensure that he’s a candidate for a green card, Jennifer is planning a wedding in the middle of the summer. From what I understand, he would still have to apply for a green card and go through a lengthy process in order to get permanent resident status even if they’re married. He’s a good candidate for a green card, though, considering how well documented and legitimate their relationship is:

If Ross remains single and an actors’ strike did occur, it’s likely he would be kicked out of the country and have to reapply for a new visa to return.

While negotiations continue and some show business analysts say the possibility of a full-on strike is unlikely, Jennifer is taking no chances, the soure said. The former “Party of Five” star, 29… because engaged to Ross in Hawaii in 2007…

Ross, 32, who’s had bit parts in the HBO series “Band of Brothers,” and “Ghost Whisperer,” was less bothered by his immigration status than Jennifer.

“She’s planning a small but elegant wedding to take place in midsummer, and can’t wait to become his bride.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 16, 2008]

Even though Hewitt has said she wants a “private” wedding, I hope she releases some photos because I would love to see her dress and get some idea of the decorations at her reception. She seems like a genuinely good person, and someone who has managed to stay down to earth and keep their integrity in Hollywood.

In these photos of Hewitt and McCall taken on5/9/08 at the Step Up Women’s Network luncheon, I thought that McCall might be wearing a wedding ring already. It looks more like an insignia ring, though, and he’s worn it for some time.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Jennifer Love Hewitt may have had a pressing reason to get engaged to her boyfriend of nearly two years, Scottish actor Ross McCall. Star Magazine is claiming that the well-liked Ghost Whisperer star is pregnant. The story is pretty scant on details, so it could be mere speculation, but they say that Ross and Jennifer went to Hawaii in part to celebrate her pregnancy. The article doesn’t make it clear whether the engagement was prompted by Jennifer’s maybe-pregnancy, and just says she found out she was expecting “around the same time” that she got engaged.

Ross, 31,… surprised Jennifer when he popped the question with an engagement ring that has been in his family for 100 years. Around the same time, the Texas beauty learned that she was pregnant!

While a rep for Jen denies she’s expecting, the source says that to celebrate the terrific news, the couple jetted off to Hawaii.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, December 17, 2007]

I’m not holding my breath on this one, but it could be true. Jennifer had normal-sized women around the world cheering when she blogged that she was sick of the constant scrunity of women’s bodies in the media and that she was happy with her body as it is. She was responding to criticism over her average-sized body after she was photographed in a bikini in Hawaii with Ross. While she said that she was dealing with “photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles,” it seemed to me like she was overstating her case, because I assumed the entire photo series was pre-arranged and staged by Hewitt. The pictures were way too posed and close up to be random photos taken by a paparrazo that trailed them all the way to Hawaii, but I guess it could have happened that way. Still, it doesn’t seem like Jennifer Love Hewitt is the level of celebrity that a photo agency would follow on vacation.

She may have been poised to tell the press that she’s annoyed that people criticize normal-sized women and I suspect that she set up the photos intending to do just that. She made an excellent point, though, and one that’s long overdue.

We’ll have to wait and see if she’s pregnant. If so, congratulations to one of the most down to earth and kind celebrities out there. I see Jennifer, Ross and the baby getting photographed as much as one of my other favorite celebrity couples, the Garner-Afflecks.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall are shown at the Scream Awards on 10/19/07, thanks to PRPhotos. Egotastic has the bikini photos, and she doesn’t look pregnant there, but it could be early on.

On Thursday we told you that Jennifer Love Hewitt got engaged, and that most of the press about her engagement focused instead on recent unflattering pictures of her in a bikini. I thought the criticisms were a too harsh – no one looks as good as they do when they’ve got professional lighting, fuzzy lenses, and retouchers. But as a result of all the professional lighting, fuzzy lenses, and retouchers, our perception of how people are “supposed” to look becomes skewed. Though there were a few commenters who called her fat/overweight/unhealthy, it seems that the majority of you believe that Jennifer has a nice and normal body. She’s certainly put on weight in the last ten years, but who has the exact same body they did at eighteen?

In the last few years Jennifer has ignored the bad press her curvy figure has received, but finally felt the need to respond to all the hate going around about her ass. On her website Jennifer wrote:

This is the last time I will address this subject. I’ve sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women’s bodies are constantly scrutinized. 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.

What I should be doing is celebrating some of the best days of my life and my engagement to the man of my dreams, instead of having to deal with photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles. I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family. And like all women out there should, I love my body.

To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini – put it on and stay strong.

[From safesearching.com/jenniferlovehewitt]

I’m not sure if Jennifer was saying that a size 2 isn’t fat as a general rule, or saying that she’s a size 2 and not fat. I think she just put her sentences in a funny order that makes it a bit confusing. Regardless, it’s pretty clear that she has a healthy body image and a good perspective. She points out that she’s just gotten engaged, and people aren’t even talking about that – they’re talking about her ass. I think she looks gorgeous and will make a beautiful, healthy and happy bride.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall are shown in Hawaii this weekend, thanks to Splash News.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and her boyfriend, Scottish actor Ross McCall, have been dating for over a year and a half and are spotted out together frequently. Now Star Magazine reports that they’ve given each other promise rings, and that they may marry next year:

Things are going so well for Jennifer Love Hewitt, 28, and her beau… Scott actor Ross McCall, 31, that the lovebirds have given each other promise rings!

“They are very, very [much] in love,” a pal close to the Ghost Whisperer star tells Star. “They’re glued at the hip, do everything together, even live together.”

Ross has cleared another important hurdle: winning over mom Pat! “Her mother, who is a very strong force in Jennifer’s life, approves of Ross and wants Jennifer to settle down,” says the pal. Expect a summer 2008 wedding in the beautiful gardens of the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel.

[From Star Magazine print edition, August 20, 2007]

It sounds like all the “source” told Star was that they’ve exchanged rings, that Jennifer’s mom likes Ross, and that they do everything together. That bit at the end about a summer 2008 wedding could just be something they tacked on, but it might be true.

Jennifer Love Hewitt comes off as a genuinely kind person, and I was trying to think if she’s ever dated a real jerk because Ross McCall seems like he would make a great husband. There are some women who always choose the best guys. You know the type of person I’m talking about - she’s super nice and is never without a doting boyfriend. (I dated a lot of jerks before I met my husband, but I guess that’s a good thing or I might have been stuck with someone else instead of him.)

Then I remembered that Jennifer dated Wilmer Valderamma, or at least he claimed on Howard Stern that he dated her. She said they were just friends and laughed off his boasts, saying “I was told, like, that we had all these very steamy encounters, and I was like, really! Well, I would have loved to have been there!”

According to nndb.com, her other boyfriends have included Joey Lawrence in 1996, Will Friedle from 1996-97, Carson Daly fro 1997-99, and John Mayer in 2002. I never heard that about John Mayer and Jennifer, but he wasn’t really on my radar at that point.

She’s also very close to her mom and lived with her up until at least 2002, when she was 23. She told Rolling Stone “I like the fact that my mom and I need each other, and I like the fact that I’m only going to get one life with her and I’ll never have to look back and say, ‘Gosh, I wish my mom and I could have done that.’” [From EOnline]

Maybe she never rebelled and that’s part of the way she avoided dating jerks. I’m still not sure she dodged that Wilmer Valderrama bullet, although she handled his big mouth pretty well.

I would love to see Jennifer Love Hewitt have children as she seems like she’d make a great mom, not that you have to be married to do that.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall on show on 7/22/07 at the debut game of Beckam’s LA Galaxy. Thanks to Splash News for this pic.