she turns 37 tomorrow. >> it w a big birthday blowout over the weekend for melissa joan hart.ns 40today. our senior news editor has the exclusive. >> you are looking fabulous. >> of course. >> i love it. who makes this dresss >> isn't that great. >> look at you. >> big props to the birthd girl. happily married. momma of 3. she was weighing about 117 pounds thanks to nutrisystem and melissa planned the entire blue and white themed partyherself. 50 guests, a three tie chocolate vanilla cake and 113 acre private estate and her husband was the surprise entertainment ♪ >> so now that we all officially feel old since this girl is all grown up, the clarissa explains it all star explains why 40 is better than 20. >> a little bit of w and a little bit of self-confidence. a little bit i don't give a crap. >> melissa learned to love herself. just say good-bye to the day of tries to figure out her looks. >> we have one of your first interviews. >> i don't even have make up on. >> look at baby melissa. >> i'm missin tooth. >> she can leave that boyfriend in the past. >> reynolds and you --

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turn now to a powerful new movie from melissa joan hart. she plays a teacher fighting for her fate in "god's not dead 2." and abc's paula faris sat down with her to talk about it. >> wonder if this is the right size. >> she played a saarrcastic and funny adolescent on "clarissa explains it all." >> hey, i look really cute. magical powers on "sabrina the teenage witch" but now melissa joan hart is taking on a more serious role in the faith-based film "god's not dead 2." >> i tell you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. >> reporter: we met up the veteran actress for coffee at sugar and plum in manhattan. you go from clarissa to sabrina to the persecuted christian teacher. quite a role reversal for you. >> a little bit. >> how is this different from anything you ever played. >> so challenging for me because doing comedy and doing television and anything else i've done, i've always driven the dialogue. in this case she's an intro virtue. a woman who stands by her faith, a faith she came about on other own, wasn't raised with

and the entire with melissa joan hart and talking about her faith.ish geraldo could have looked at that video right before -- >> i know. >> yeah. thanks a lot. >> good luck with the two step as your first song. >> thank. >> thank you very much. congratulations. best wishes. that's what you say. >> really? >> yeah. >>> coming up ahead, talk about some hot wheels. [ shouting ] >> why this turbocharged super car burst into flames in the middle of the world's biggest auto show. we'll give you the details. >>> and the hottest products of the spring season here. they're underneath those boxes. this one that's being revealed. that's a mixer. 60% off today. the mega morning deals that you will only see here on "fox & friends" next. that is a great deal for a mixer. you can fly acrosstown in ms welcome to the world 2116, or across the globe in under an hour. whole communities are living on mars and solar satellites provide earth with unlimited clean power. in less than a century, boeing took the world from seaplanes to space planes, across the universe and be

. >> reporter: this week melissa joan hart stars as a teacher speaking up for her beliefs who becomesolved in the trial and test of her faith in god's not dead yet too. >> when he said we should love our enemies. >> yes. >> when grace a public school teacher answers a student questions in class that incorporates her christian beliefs a backlash ensues that threatens her job and faith. it resonated with star melissa joan h theart hoist an frayed to sharing her personal beliefs. >> i feel like i have a a great life and i want to share that with people a lot of that is my faith. >> judged by the world, but the world needs to be judged by god. >> reporter: issue goes to trial where larger questions of freedom of religion comes into play, played by jesse met calf who sharing the passion of the deeper challenge of the topic. >> it brings attention to an issue we have in our society about the separation of church and state. we need to have an open conversation and discussion, and i feel like the movie opens up that conversation. >> reporter: fate isn't on trial here but that is exactly is wh

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this film now is melissa joan hart and jesse metcalf. it is inspired by real court cases. acter is a public school teacher who speaks about jesus in her classroom, and then goes into a legal battle in the idea between separation of church and state. the film itself has great message about faith. this has been an incredible year for faith-based movies. i loved "miracles from heaven" and "risen." i sad down with melissa joan heart, and she spoke about how difficult it was to make a religious film in hollywood. and jesse metcalf talked about getting sober, and faith helped him through that. >> taking on this film, you knew there would be persecution. it's not easy to make a christian film in hollywood. these movies are doing well, so now there's a lot of christian movies are coming out. i was in arkansas, that's a friendly environment to talk about christ. l.a. is a little bit different. i think there's going to be a lot of persecution behind this. it's a matter of knowing we did the right thing. >> i think i was first introduced to the include of faith when i got sober five y

. >> reporter: and a teen with magical powers on "sabrina the teenage witch" but now melissa joan hartbased film "god's not dead 2." >> i tell you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. >> reporter: we met up the veteran actress for coffee at sugar and plum in manhattan. you go from clarissa to sabrina to the persecuted christian teacher. quite a role reversal for you. >> a little bit. >> how is this different from anything you ever played. >> so challenging for me because doing comedy and doing television and anything else i've done, i've always driven the dialogue. in this case she's an intro virtue. a woman who stands by her faith, a faith she came about on other own, wasn't raised with the faith so comes to her own beliefs and grows her own faith and then she has to stand by that conviction and like kind of unwavering. >> this is all about separation of church and state. in this particular movie the teacher is being persecuted because of her faith because of a question she was asked in class. why do you think it's an important conversation to have right now in 2016