Sometimes the Industry is so upsetting. Jennifer Lopez gave a
candidly honest interview to Elle Magazine and her rep yanks it
and asks to have it done over. Interview is replaced and the
world keeps spinning. What's wrong with being honest about her
life? I would think people would relate more to her if they knew
she struggled in the beginning with her twins.
Jennifer Lopez sat down with Kevin Sessums
who was able to get the singer/actress to dish the dirt about
her new life. She portrayed an honest, tired and emotional new
mom. Nothing wrong with that. We could have done without the way
Kevin described her though...
"Her unwashed hair is pulled severely back and there's a halo of
frizz around the crown of her head."
Ouch
In the article, Jennifer admitted to having "a kind of nervous
breakdown" while filming Enough in 2002, not breastfeeding her
children and the fact that she is considering putting her kids
in Scientology classes.
She also opened up about the emotional first few days of being a
mom. And you know what? I was exactly where she was when I had
my first child. I couldn't move much from the c section and I
would cry because of my inability to care for the one thing I
was waiting for since the day I married.
"“At the tenth day after giving birth all that chemical stuff
did peak—that hormone thing—and I did cry a lot that day because
I was having so much trouble moving. I couldn’t get up fast
enough to feed the babies…Marc was helping out a lot and I was
crying and crying and going, ‘Oh, Papi...they’re going to know
everybody more than me…They’re going to love everybody more than
me!’ "
What do you think? Anything she admitted here too risky to print
in Elle? The article ended up on an online site anyway. So, it's
not like the quotes have gone to waste.
To read a TON of quotes from the article, click on the continue
reading link below.
Thanks to The Daily Beast for printing the article.
On Her Breakdown
“I don't get nervous. I don't get depressed. Blah, blah,
blah…There was a time when I was very overworked and I was doing
music and movies and so many things. I was suffering from a lack
of sleep. And I did have a kind of nervous breakdown. I froze up
on a set. Well, not on a set, but in my trailer. I was like, ‘I
don’t want to move. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to do
anything.’ It was on that movie Enough [in 2002]. Yeah. I did. I
had a nervous breakdown.
“There were no signs leading up to it. You really don’t know
what’s happening at first. I was going, ‘What’s going on?’ It
was about five in the afternoon in my trailer and I just sat
there. I remember telling my assistant at the time, Arlene, to
go get the director, Michael Apted, and I asked if I could go
home because I was feeling so sick and weird. I kept saying,
‘I’m not weak. I’m not weak.’ It’s funny what tricks your mind
plays on you. I just didn’t want people to think I was falling
apart. But when I look back on it now it’s so odd to me that
those are the words I chose to say: ‘I AM NOT WEAK.’
“Michael let me off and when he left I just sat there and
started crying and felt frozen. I didn’t want to move. My
bodyguard, who had been with me for many years, picked me up and
put me in the car and they took me to a doctor...Right away they
want to give you pills. But I have never liked the idea of pills
and kept saying no to that and just kept asking what was wrong
with me. ‘I’ll tell you what’s wrong,’ the doctor said. ‘You’re
sleep deprived. You’re overworked. Go home and go to bed.’ He
told me to go back to work on Monday after a weekend of sleeping
because if I waited longer that I would only get more panicked
about working. So that’s what I did. I’ve still never been to a
shrink. I’m not a shrinky person.”
On Scientology
“I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the
practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that
kind of stuff. It’s very helpful. So in a sense, yeah, you do
call on it.”
“Do you consider yourself a Scientologist?”
“No…I wouldn't have a problem saying [I was] because I know what
it is. I have no problems with it and it really actually bothers
me that people have such a negative feeling towards it.”
“That it is too exotic? Too cultish?”
“Just negative feelings.”
“Would you consider schooling Emme and Max in a Scientology
school?”
“Yeah. I wouldn’t mind. Not at all. Because I know that the
technologies that they have are very helpful…It’s all about
communication. That’s the thing I really don’t like about
talking about this. I do know so many great people who do do it,
who choose it as a lifestyle and really follow it and it is
their religion…I just wish that people wouldn’t judge it without
knowing what it is.”
On Breast-Feeding
“Some people are radical about it. But to each his own.”
“If you had had only one child, would you have chosen to
breast-feed?”
“No...I...ah....it’s not that...I’d rather not discuss it. It’s
a whole other thing.”
On Selling Photos of the Twins for an Estimated $6 Million
“I think one of the reasons that the price went so high is that
we didn’t want to do it for so long…We weren’t into it. I was
like, ‘No, I don’t really want to. No. No way.’ But then it got
to the point that you go, ‘Well, now you’re being stupid with
these offers’…I thought I can set them up. I can put this away
just for them.
“We gave a little bit and I saved the rest for them.”
“Don’t their parents make enough money? I mean, according to
Forbes you’re the ninth-richest female working in show b usiness.”
“Hmmm…I wouldn’t believe everything I read.”
On Being Called a Diva
“I think I’ve always been a favorite to pick on. Once you have a
lot of success, you become a target in many ways…I just think
that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am. I
think some of that is because of where I came from. I came from
the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept
my focus on the right things. And still, even with that, they
find stuff to pick on.”
