The untold truth of Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez has done almost everything. She has conquered the big screen, beating a variety of films from Out of Sight to The Wedding Planner to Hustlers to Selena to, uh, Gigli. She also enjoyed a very successful concurrent music career, with massive hit singles like "If You Had My Love "," I'm Real "," Jenny from the Block "and" On the Floor ". As a Latina woman of Puerto Rican descent, she has broken down barriers in the entertainment industry while overseeing a clothing line, a homeware collection, and a perfume empire. 2020 marked another milestone when, shortly after earning her second Golden Globe nomination, Lopez teamed up with Shakira for the Super Bowl LIV halftime show. So yeah, Lopez has done quite well.
But Lopez is also a celebrity, an unflappable icon of fame, featured regularly in the celebrity news media because of her ambitious lifestyle, her professional endeavors, and her multiple marriages. López lives her life in public, but that is not her whole life or her whole being. Here are some things you might not know about the one we call JLo.
Jennifer Lopez believed she could fly
While it's common knowledge that Jim Carrey got his first big taste of fame as a cast member on Fox's 1989-1994 sketch comedy show In Living Color, it's less known that Jennifer Lopez got her big break there too. No, Lopez didn't play outlandish characters or imitate celebrities in sketches - she was among the Fly Girls, the show's in-house hip-hop dance troupe that broke moves during interstitial and over-credits moments.
In 2004, Inner Edition discovered a tape of dancers from November 1990 auditioning to be Fly Girls for the choreographer Rosie Pérez, yes, that one. As she made it to the final round of four dancers, she lost the only open spot to a fellow dancer. Undeterred, Lopez auditioned again in 1991. That time, she made the cut and stayed with Live Color until 1993. She also kept busy with other dance gigs, appearing in videos for Janet Jackson, Samantha Fox, and others. In 2015, Lopez opened the American Music Awards by leading a couple dozen dancers as they worked their way through some of the biggest hits of the year. That was full circle for JLo, who at the 1991 AMA ceremony, danced in support of New Kids on the Block.
Movie roles that could have been JLo
Before becoming a pop diva, but after making a name for herself as a dancer, Jennifer Lopez was a renowned actress. In the late 90s, she made quite a splash with roles in Money Train, Out of Sight, and Selena for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination. She has starred in some major movies since (Hustlers, Maid in Manhattan), while the alternate universe Jennifer Lopez has also created a fairly comprehensive resume. This means that she turned down many films that became hits, such as the 2002 erotic thriller Unfaithful, which earned Diane Lane an Oscar nomination.
"Diane Lane was perfect for that, and she was obviously destined to be her, but when I think about it," said Lopez Vanity Fair, "I want to literally shoot myself in the toe." J-no! According to Contact Music, Lopez's agents decided Dorothy's role in Jerry Maguire was "not for [her]", leaving it open for director Cameron Crowe to show Renee Zelwegger the money. Lopez also told Movieline in 1998, Columbia Pictures gave him the choice of two movies: Anaconda, which Variety dubbed "a dumb and heavy Jaws scam", or the romantic comedy The Fools Rush. She chose Anaconda, «the funny B movie because the Fools the script was not strong enough« Well, she will always have Gigli
The double blow of the end of Gigli and Bennifer
It's safe to say that 2003 wasn't one of Jennifer Lopez's best years. Her high-profile relationship with her, her tabloid and gossip with movie star Ben Affleck faded after two years and a wedding proposal. They met on the set of Gigli which, upon its release in 2003, became one of the wildest movies of all time, its title being synonymous with "really bad movie." (Gigli in which Ben Affleck plays a mobster who successfully falls in love with the character of Lopez, a gay federal agent, got 6 percent on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to critics who found him "incredibly bad." (Bowling Green Daily News ) and "impossible to see" (the Associated Press)
The combination of falling in love and then falling out of love in the public eye in the context of a major failure (Gigli made just $ 6 million at the US box office on a reported $ 54 budget - yikes!) Nearly bankrupted Lopez. «I was gutted. I lost my sense of identity, they asked me if I belonged to this business, I thought maybe it sucked at everything, "said López. Vanity Fair in 2017. “And my relationship destroyed itself in front of the whole world. It was something of two years for me until I recovered ».
JLo had to repeatedly sue her first husband
Jennifer Lopez has been the middle of a series of high-profile romances. In addition to tabloid relationships with Puff Daddy and Ben Affleck, she has been married four times. According to Popsugar, her first husband, for nine months from 1997 to 1998, was a waiter named Ojani Noa (shown above). After parting with her, she became richer and more famous… and he seemed more determined to capitalize on her connection to the superstar.
In 2006, Noa planned to publish The Unknown Truth: A Passionate Portrait of a Serial Thriller, A Book Exposure on Life with JLo Says Everything, Warts and Everything. By People, each chapter is named after a different López movie. According to the Associated Press (via MTV News) Lopez and his attorneys sued in Los Angeles Superior Court to prevent the book from being published, as publishing it would violate an agreement Ona allegedly made with Lopez in 2005. It prevented her from revealing any information about your marriage to Lopez that would result in financial trouble. profit, and signed it along with another lawsuit he had filed against his ex-wife, alleging that he had been wrongfully fired from Madre's, a Southern California restaurant owned by Lopez. While a judge blocked the book and awarded López $ 545,000, he once again had to take Noa to court. In 2009, she sued him for $ 10 million after he trie d to market the couple's honeymoon video.
Wow tell us how you really feel, JLo
Hollywood stars are usually very cautious and diplomatic and don't want to say anything to a journalist who would rock the boat or throw themselves into the light. That's what makes Jennifer Lopez's 1998 interview with Movieline so refreshing, but no less shocking. When she was asked her honest opinion of various A-list actresses and rising stars of the era, she didn't hold back in the least.
In the rant before the tea was spilled, Lopez, who starred in Selena said the idea that the movie was first offered to Salma Hayek was "a blatant lie" and "if that's what she does to advertise herself , that's his thing. As for Cameron Díaz, López called her "a lucky model who has been given many opportunities with which she wishes she had done more." He noted that Winona Ryder "is an Oscar nominee, but I never heard anyone in the audience or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love her.' He didn't think too much about Madonna's non-musical activities: 'Do I think she's a great actress? Not." But Gwyneth Paltrow may have had the worst. "I swear to God," Lopez said, "I don't remember anything she was in." Oh.
Mariah Carey does not know Jennifer Lopez
There's no fight like a diva fight, and Jennifer Lopez has spawned more than a few celebrity fights, but this has to be the biggest, because it involves nothing but MiMi. Sometime in the early 2000s, Mariah Carey gave an interview with a German-language media outlet and expressed her views on her contemporaries. "I love Beyoncé, Beyoncé is fabulous," Carey said. When she was asked about Lopez, Carey replied, with a devilish smile, "I don't know her." She was not saying that she did not know Lopez personally, she meant that she had never heard of this upstart vocalist.
Those four words became a meme, recreated on both a GIF and a T-shirt, forcing López to respond multiple times. "I've read things she said about me that weren't the best, but we've never met," Lopez said on Watch What Happens Live in 2014, apparently taking Carey's shadow literally. In a 2016 spot for The Wendy Williams Show, Lopez changed tack, stating that she and Carey had "seen each other many times." Carey stood her ground when she hit Watch What Happens Live later that year, declaring, 'I don't know her. What am I supposed to say?
Gossip columnist Roger Friedman points to an inciting incident from the early 2000s between Lopez and Carey. The dispute may have something to do with the alleged theft of elements from Lopez's "If We" and "Loverboy," two songs Carey recorded for her soundtrack. Giglibomba esque Brillantina, and she used them in the album version and the remix of her song "I'm Real."
Just say no to say hi to JLo
If Jennifer Lopez is, as she asserts in a 2002 defensive preemptive single, still Jenny from the block, then she must have been rude in serving industry workers as a teenager. "She does not speak to vendors, restaurant or hotel staff, or flight attendants," said a person close to López Estrella (via online Radar). "She only speaks through her attendants." Namely, during an alleged United Airlines excursion, a flight attendant allegedly asked Lopez (in the first class section, naturally), if she could bring him a drink. But Jennifer refused to recognize me. She turned her head and said to her personal assistant, 'Please tell her I'd like a Diet Coke and lime,' ”the stewardess said. Star.
In 2012, Pray Dodaj, a maid who worked at the Melia Dusseldorf hotel in Germany, claimed that she asked López for her autograph when the star was there for a stay. "I'm a huge fan, so I took all my courage and rang the doorbell for an autograph," said Dodaj Bild (via US Weekly). Two attendees turned down the application, and then it got worse. “A day later, the cleaning company that employed me at the hotel called and said that Ms. López had complained. They fired me there over the phone, "said Dodaj. Lopez dismissed the entire notion from her hands with a tweet: "Come on, I thought you knew me better than this… You would never get anyone fired for an autograph."
Jennier Lopez is trying to make a dollar off 25 cents
An exclusive fragrance means different things to a civilian and a celebrity. For a non-famous person, it is a favorite perfume or perfume used regularly. For a celebrity, it is a relatively affordable perfume bottle with their name on it available in department stores and drug stores across the country. It's an integral part of a portfolio and branding strategy for any motivated celebrity: Lady Gaga has one, Rihanna has a few… and Jennifer Lopez has released 25 amazing perfumes and different scents since 2002. Everyday Women's Clothing estimates that the latest, Promise , which hit stores in September 2019, could increase the profits of Lopez's scent empire by 30 percent. That's a lot, considering the line is already worth around $ 2 billion.
Speaking of huge sums of money, is a comment by billionaire genius Warren Buffett that inspired the name of fragrance number 25. “He told me something that really resonated with me. He said, 'a brand is a promise.' López revealed at a Promise themed event (via Seducir) “I thought it was a perfect time in my life to name a Promesa fragrance, because every time we create something new, it is a promise to give it something of quality, something that will improve his life, something that will make him feel sexy, something that will make you feel beautiful. Way to go, Warren Buffett! (Or maybe it's WaBu? «)
JLo didn't want to do a TV show (at first)
Like many of Hollywood's leading actors and actresses, Jennifer Lopez has her own production company, Nuyorican Productions, which she uses to develop film and television projects for herself and other artists. In 2014, Lopez released Shades of Blue, a gritty drama about a single mother and a NYPD detective who gets involved with a dirty cop clique, for NBC. She was only wearing her producer hat, and had no intention of starring in the series, but those plans quickly changed.
"They said, 'Why aren't you playing this role?'" Lopez Cosas said. And I thought to myself, 'I don't know, maybe ... maybe I should.' And so she did, taking on the lead role of the troubled Harlee Santos (alongside Ray Liotta), and NBC ordered a First Season. As Lopez was still quite busy with her film and music careers, Shades of Blue's production schedule was quite accommodating, with its first two seasons consisting of 13 relatively low episodes each. Still, when the show was renewed for a third season, Lopez was already watching the finale. "We always knew this would have a limited run," she told IndieWire. "When we got to season three, I thought, 'I think we're done with this.' And the way the season ends, I think that's the way it is… It seemed perfect to move on to the next chapter for me.
She gave triathlon a try
Jennifer Lopez dances almost nonstop for two hours during the typical concert, and throughout the day on her music videos, and it was her job for a time as Fly Girl on In Color Live in the early 1990s. So, It should come as no surprise that Lopez has the physical stamina to endure all of that, but he also applies those physical gifts to other more competitive sporting activities.
In her 2015 memoir True Love, Lopez argued (and justifiably bragged) about finishing a triathlon seven years earlier. Triathlon is a grueling competition that combines a long swim, a long bike ride, and a long run. "Now, understand, she had never done a triathlon before," she wrote Lopez. "She had run a 10 km race when she was 12, but never anything like a triathlon." She talks about a humblebrag, J-Lo. Oh, and his time in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon, which comprises a half-mile swim, an 18-mile bike portion, and a four-mile run - 2 hours, 23 minutes, and 28 seconds, which is a little more than the amount. time it takes to look at Gigli
Hello Turkmenistan!
According to The Guardian, Jennifer Lopez was the main act at the birthday party of Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the president of the former Soviet nation-state of Turkmenistan. Lopez wore her usual stage outfits during the 2013 show, as she performed some of her songs before changing into traditional and more modest Turken clothing to sing "Happy Birthday" to the man of the hour. What's wrong with that? According to groups like Human Rights Watch, which controls authoritarian regimes and oppression around the world, Berdymukhamedov may not be the most compassionate leader. The organization says it is among "the most isolated and oppressively ruled countries in the world" and that "all aspects of public life are controlled by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and his associates." The Berdymukhamedov regime has also kept political prisoners "in complete isolation from family, lawyers and the outside world ... and has denied their families information about their whereabouts and fate."
Lopez was reportedly unaware of Berdymukhamedov's reputation when he agreed to perform at his birthday party. Amid the criticism, López's team issued a statement for ¡MI! News, which read, in part, "The event was reviewed by her representatives, if she had had knowledge of human rights issues of any kind, Jennifer would not have attended."
