Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays a prostitute in the Lifetime flick The Client List, can understand why some women end up selling their bodies.

The actress said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Monday that her character in the movie, a mother and former small-town beauty queen, is left with no other choice.

"Her husband has been injured and out of work; her massage therapy job has been phased out; her kids need braces and their house is about to be foreclosed," Jennifer said.

"So she answers an ad in the paper for a massage therapy position.

"Very quickly, her life sort of goes on a downward spiral, and I think she realizes that there was probably more of the attention she was getting than she needed."

The singer/ actress recently admitted she wants to break into comedy.