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JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT opens up to People magazine about the now-famous photos that captured the "Ghost Whisperer" star in a bikini.

"The thing I think is great is when those pictures were taken, no matter what, I had just been asked to marry," says Hewitt, who is engaged to actor ROSS McCALL. "So he loves me just the way I am."

And she says that if she does lose any weight it will be for the right reasons. "If I do work out more it will be for my health, so I can live a long time and we can have kids and be happy together until we are in our 80s," Hewitt said. "It won't be because I am worried about how I look."