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" \n There are some actresses who in real life barely resemble their glamorous red-carpet images. Jennifer Lopez is not one of them. She is even more beautiful in person than she is on the big screen and in her va-va-voom music videos. And this morning is no exception, despite the fact that she&amp;#039;s been working seven days a week preparing to launch her new urban chic clothing line, Sweetface, and promoting her new buzzed-about album, Rebirth. Wearing faded jeans and a lightweight camel sweater, her honeystreaked brown hair tucked up into a gray newsboy cap, her skin is lineless, a clear indication that her bronze glow isn&amp;#039;t from sunbathing. The 35-year-old has a lot on her plate these days (in addition to the clothing line and the album, there&amp;#039;s a movie, Monster-in-Law, out this month), but Jennifer seems energized and happy. Although this album, her fifth, has a hearty helping of stylized dance beats, it&amp;#039;s heavy on love ballads. Perhaps it&amp;#039;s a sign that things in her one-year marriage to Latin music sensation and hubby number three Marc Anthony are going blissfully. Unfortunately, after the media storm surrounding her breakup with that dude from Boston whom she was engaged to, she&amp;#039;s vowed to talk about her personal life mostly through her music (she cowrote two songs on the album). Here, the multitalented artist shares more scoop with Cosmo.  Cosmo: Is Rebirth your most personal album? Jennifer: Well, it&amp;#039;s very emotional. It&amp;#039;s very passionate, I think. And it has some sex on it.  C: Which song means the most to you?  J: They&amp;#039;re all very personal to me. If I couldn&amp;#039;t relate to them, I couldn&amp;#039;t sing them. In the first part of my career, with my first albums, it was like, &amp;quot;Okay, we&amp;#039;ll record 20 songs and then pick the 12 best ones.&amp;quot; But for this one I was like, &amp;quot;Do I want to sing this? Did this move me in any way? No, it didn&amp;#039;t. Even if it could be a hit record, it doesn&amp;#039;t matter.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;ve started standing by what I do.  C: How is Rebirth a reflection of how you&amp;#039;re feeling now?  J: This is a brand-new beginning. All the albums I did before this one and all the experiences I had were phase one. And now I can take everything I&amp;#039;ve learned and apply it in a different way, because I am a different person.  C: Marc is coproducing your upcoming Spanish album. What&amp;#039;s it like working with your husband?  J: Marc and I have worked together for years; we did a duet on my first album. It is easier to take criticism from an actual boss [than a husband] though.  C: For a romantic night, do you and Marc go out?  J: We go out to dinner. I go for good food over ambience. We like peaceful things\u2026quiet, rest. For a vacation, it&amp;#039;s someplace hot. No ski trips.  C: Do you believe you have one soul mate?  J: No. I think we run into several during our lives. I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s just one.  C: What have you learned about love and marriage?  J: You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them. But I don&amp;#039;t give advice about marriage.  C: Are you still friends with your exes? P. Diddy, maybe?  J: Yeah, we&amp;#039;re still friends.  C: What&amp;#039;s better: long engagements or short engagements?  J: Short engagements.  C: In your latest movie, Monsterin- Law, you deal with a mean mother-in-law. Ever dealt with that in real life?  J: No. I&amp;#039;ve been lucky. The mothers like me. I&amp;#039;m nice\u2026I&amp;#039;m not the nightmare girlfriend. I&amp;#039;m not controlling. I think it&amp;#039;s important for girls to get along with the moms. It&amp;#039;s the moms you have to get by when a son is involved.  C: Have you dated or married a man your mom didn&amp;#039;t like?  J: I&amp;#039;ve dated men she didn&amp;#039;t like. And she told me before, during, and after.  C: Do you think it&amp;#039;s possible to do it all\u2014to be a great wife and a great mom and have a great career all at the same time?  J: Yes, but it&amp;#039;s certainly not easy. I think it takes a lot of work\u2026and a good partner to help.  C: Want to start a family?  J: Yeah. Of course I do. I don&amp;#039;t know about having a lot of kids, but I&amp;#039;d like to raise one healthy, really loving child. I do sometimes want that quiet life raising children, but I feel like these things all happen naturally on their own.  C: We heard that you don&amp;#039;t want to be called J.Lo anymore. Why?  J: That&amp;#039;s not true. It was a silly gossip story. I still like to be called J.Lo. I was just saying that last night when [Marc and I] went out. We were running through this crowd, in a hurry, and a little girl asked, &amp;quot;Could you sign this?&amp;quot; I signed J.Lo really fast, and I was like &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s when that J.Lo shit comes in handy.&amp;quot;  C: Did you always know you would be famous one day?  J: I always had a feeling that I was going to do this, like &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to be in movies and I&amp;#039;m going to sing.&amp;quot; Like somebody was going to pick me out of a crowd. It was a sense of something\u2026a desire.  C: Why do you think you were branded a diva by the media?  J: I always felt that was unfair. It might be because I have nice stuff. I came from virtually nothing, so there was a time when I was like &amp;quot;Oh my God, I can have that car or I can have that coat.&amp;quot; I don&amp;#039;t think anybody in my position wouldn&amp;#039;t have done the same thing. But you get to a point where you want to strip down. Not that I won&amp;#039;t have a nice bag, but I&amp;#039;m going to sell that big museum-type house and get a nice cozy house, and I&amp;#039;m going to have one car and trade the others in. I want to go back to something simpler.  C: How are you very much your sign, Leo? Center of attention, loyal, generous, big ego.\u2026  J: Center of attention\u2026yeah. My favorite holiday is my birthday\u2014very Leo. I think I&amp;#039;m loyal and generous. But I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this business. You can&amp;#039;t learn if you think no one else has anything to say that&amp;#039;s of value.  C: What&amp;#039;s something about you that&amp;#039;s really un-divalike?  J: I love to clean up. I can&amp;#039;t have a room unclean. And I cook\u2014I made pork chops last night. My favorite food is fried chicken cutlets, and I make those too.  C: Is there anything you&amp;#039;re not good at?  J: I&amp;#039;m bad at a ton of things. I&amp;#039;m bad at sitting still. I&amp;#039;m bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It&amp;#039;s rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they&amp;#039;re like &amp;quot;Where are you right now?&amp;quot;  C: With all you have on your plate, how do you de-stress?  J: I love a massage and a bath. I don&amp;#039;t drink\u2014I&amp;#039;ll have a sip, but I&amp;#039;ve never been drunk\u2014and I don&amp;#039;t smoke. I envy people who have those releases. They just have a drink or a cigarette, and they feel better. I have to brave it through the whole day on my own.  C: How do you manage to be the one star who never gets caught by the paparazzi with bedhead and no makeup?  J: I am conscious of the way I look when I go out. My mom and my grandma taught me that you never leave the house without taking a bath and at least attempting to fix your hair. I don&amp;#039;t look like a glamour puss every day, but I try to look decent when I leave the house.  C: Have you always been confident about your body?  J: No, not when I was younger. I felt heavy. I was heavy, but as I grew up and dropped the baby fat, I felt confident. I started looking more like the voluptuous women I grew up with who I thought were beautiful\u2014my mom and my aunts. So when I went to Hollywood and everybody was very small, I never thought I looked bad. I never felt fat.  C: Your butt is famous. What are your favorite body parts?  J: My waist and my stomach. I&amp;#039;m lucky genetically\u2014I&amp;#039;m small through there.  C: How much of that amazing body is hard work?  J: It&amp;#039;s a lot of hard work. I used to work out all the time, but over the years, I&amp;#039;ve tapered off. Now I focus when I have to [get in shape for a movie or video]. And I&amp;#039;m not a big dieter. I know when there&amp;#039;s a little extra here or there. And then I just adjust a little\u2014I don&amp;#039;t kill myself.  C: Do you have any regrets?  J: Not really, but that&amp;#039;s not to say that I haven&amp;#039;t been through bad things. I have. But my philosophy on life is that we&amp;#039;re here to love and to learn. And I&amp;#039;ve learned a lot, so I can&amp;#039;t say &amp;quot;I wish this didn&amp;#039;t happen or I didn&amp;#039;t make that movie.&amp;quot; And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I&amp;#039;m doing what I can to make it different. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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