Jennifer Love Hewitt made a withering response to trolls who accused her of being ‘fake’.

Trolls descended on the star after her hairstylist Nikki Lee posted a clip to Instagram showing off a brand new look for the Ghost Whisperer star.

Jennifer Love Hewitt posts her new look

Love Hewitt had cut her long hair into a bob with curtain bangs. She finished the look by changing the colour to a rich brown.

The stylist captioned the post: „Was time to spice things up.”

Fans of the Party of Five actor were stunned by the new look.

One wrote: „SHE’S SO GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!! Gosh, I love it!!!!”

Another said: „GORGEOUS AS ALWAYS, LOVE YOU JENNIFER.”

A third wrote: „Looks fantastic the new haircut.”

Despite this, some people claimed that she had undergone cosmetic procedures, even speculating about the possibility that she had had a brow lift and describing her as ‘unrecognizable’.

But Love Hewitt found a hilarious way to hit back at the trolls.

Taking to social media, she posted a series of pictures which very obviously had filters placed over them.

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The filters varied each time, but each one was widely exaggerated, the sort that would make you look like a cartoon or an anime drawing, or give you really big lips rather than just making it look like you’re wearing eyeliner.

Love Hewitt accompanied the post with some tongue-in-cheek comments.

She said: “So many people said I look different”, adding:“I look the same as always. Couldn’t look more natural. I woke up like this. Filters don’t change you that much.”

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She finished the post by reflecting on filters, as well as urging people to ‘be kind’, writing: “Let people be filtered or unfiltered. Be good. Be kind. Spread love.”

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In a separate post, Love Hewitt had put up a picture of herself with no make up or filters to mark her 44th birthday, leaving fans shocked by how much her appearance had changed.

She wrote: „Woke up at 4am and was 44! I am deeply grateful, blessed, happy, sometimes insecure about aging, a mom of three incredible babies, married to the most handsome and awesome man, and really excited to see what this year has for us.

„I feel magic in the air and I love magic. Off to work… thank you mom for giving me life. I miss you so much. Gonna get my job done and my birthday cheers on later.”