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Ever since Jennifer Love Hewitt caught flack for a cellulite-baring bikini shot, she’s looking at life differently.

“I wish I had been nude from the time I was 12 until I was 28. I looked great!” she told the September issue of Health magazine.

Hewitt recently shed 18 pounds in just ten weeks, but the actress claims it was not the paparazzi shot and subsequent criticism that caused her to lose weight.

And although the Ghost Whisperer star is confident about her curvy figure now, she laughs at her insecurities as a teenager.

“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.”

The 29-year-old actress, who is engaged to Scottish actor Ross McCall, admits, “I used to scoff and say, ‘No, I feel fat today!’ Now the joke’s on me.”

After all she’s dealt with in regards to weight, she jokes: “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.”

But Hewitt has no regrets about her own youth and is looking forward to turning 30 in February.

“I’m so excited! It’s my dream age,” she says. “I don’t know why, but, literally since my 12th birthday I’ve wanted to turn 30.”

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