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"In one year, Jennifer Lopez has managed to go from superstar to megastar to ultimate-supreme-giganto star, all thanks to a little thing called American Idol (oh, and her new album, Love?, and her new clothing line for Kohl&amp;amp;#8217;s and, yes, even her very public split from Marc Anthony). Former neighbors from the Bronx must have seen this coming when they nicknamed her The Supernova as a child. So how did she go from Jenny From the Block to blockbuster? Lopez, 42, got her first break at 22, dancing as a Fly Girl on the hit TV show In Living Color. In 1997, her starring role in the acclaimed Selena sealed the deal: She had most definitely made it. Then, in 1999, Lopez released her first album, On the 6 (remember &amp;amp;#8220;Waiting for Tonight&amp;amp;#8221;?), and that was it: She&amp;amp;#8217;d officially become a triple threat. And who could forget her jaw-dropping fashion moment in 2000, the cut-down-to-there green Versace gown that&amp;amp;#8217;s so famous it&amp;amp;#8217;s actually on display at the Grammy Museum in L.A.? Since then, she&amp;amp;#8217;s only continued to gain steam: more movies, more albums, plus fragrances, that clothing line and&amp;amp;#8212;cuteness!&amp;amp;#8212;her three-year-old twins, Max and Emme. Lopez&amp;amp;#8217;s friend Jane Fonda has a theory about what keeps her on top: &amp;amp;#8220;Jennifer&amp;amp;#8217;s uniqueness lies in her combination of extraordinary beauty, intelligence and street smarts. She&amp;amp;#8217;s a fantastic role model. She owns it.&amp;amp;#8221; Listen in as Fonda and J.Lo chat about her career, her children and her tumultuous love life. JANE FONDA: Jennifer, hello! Let me remind readers that we made Monster-in-Law together. But most people don&amp;amp;#8217;t need reminding, because even though the critics didn&amp;amp;#8217;t like it, it was number one at the box office. JENNIFER LOPEZ: Yes, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s a cult favorite now. People always tell me that they loved when we slapped each other! [Laughs.] JANE FONDA: And the last time I saw you, you so generously presented me with a UCLA Icon Award. That moved me very much. JENNIFER LOPEZ: Aw, thank you. JANE FONDA: You are so busy. American Idol, next year you&amp;amp;#8217;re in What to Expect When You&amp;amp;#8217;re Expecting with Cameron Diaz, you just sold a new show to Fox, you have a clothing line and a million different perfumes. You seem to feel very comfortable with being powerful. Is that a fair assessment? JENNIFER LOPEZ: That&amp;amp;#8217;s funny. I&amp;amp;#8217;m very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. As far as being powerful, I guess I&amp;amp;#8217;m comfortable with it. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not really how I think of myself. JANE FONDA: When you&amp;amp;#8217;re that busy, if one or two things get out of whack, it can be really stressful. How do you deal with that? JENNIFER LOPEZ: For me, when it&amp;amp;#8217;s work stuff, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t take it as seriously. I always feel like this is the type of career that ebbs and flows&amp;amp;#8212;you have to kind of ride the waves and sometimes you even fall under the water. But for the most part, I feel like I can handle it. JANE FONDA: What does stress you? JENNIFER LOPEZ: More personal stuff stresses me out. JANE FONDA: And do you have a technique for overcoming this stress? JENNIFER LOPEZ: I do a lot of praying. You know, I went to 12 years of Catholic school! I&amp;amp;#8217;m also very into positive thinking. The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, &amp;amp;#8220;No, no, that&amp;amp;#8217;s not a thought that I need to have right now. Everything&amp;amp;#8217;s great, everything&amp;amp;#8217;s good, you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to be fine.&amp;amp;#8221; JANE FONDA: Let&amp;amp;#8217;s get to American Idol. As you have said many times, it&amp;amp;#8217;s shown a completely different side of you to fans. Did you expect that? JENNIFER LOPEZ: It&amp;amp;#8217;s so funny. I felt like people already knew me! I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t realize that they didn&amp;amp;#8217;t until I was on the show. I just thought, Oh, they&amp;amp;#8217;re going to see me like they&amp;amp;#8217;ve always seen me, because I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always been the same. But when I got on the show, I realized, Wow, they really didn&amp;amp;#8217;t get to see that side of me. JANE FONDA: What do you like most about doing it? JENNIFER LOPEZ: I love working with the singers. I love just finding them. This week, Scotty McCreery&amp;amp;#8217;s album is number one! And we discovered him. JANE FONDA: I&amp;amp;#8217;m so impressed with the savvy tips that you give to the contestants. JENNIFER LOPEZ: Thank you so much. It&amp;amp;#8217;s such a great exchange, because in helping the contestants, you grow yourself in a weird way. You&amp;amp;#8217;re watching them, going, &amp;amp;#8220;You know what? I do that sometimes.&amp;amp;#8221; JANE FONDA: Did you have anyone giving you advice when you started out? JENNIFER LOPEZ: When I first started in music, Puffy and I were together and he mentored me. He let me know what the music business was like, and that was something that I took with me. I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t think about it at the time, but then I realized later I&amp;amp;#8217;m quoting him! JANE FONDA: I see you out, and you often seem to be surrounded by a posse of women. Do you have many close women friends? JENNIFER LOPEZ: Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They&amp;amp;#8217;re mean with you! They&amp;amp;#8217;re always there, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s just a priceless thing to have. JANE FONDA: That&amp;amp;#8217;s impressive, because women can be very jealous of someone like you. JENNIFER LOPEZ: I&amp;amp;#8217;m not one of those types of women, and the women that I attract are not that type. We stand up for other women and we root for other women. Some of my friends, like my friend Arlene, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve known since I was seven. She&amp;amp;#8217;s with my kids right now. JANE FONDA: Is it possible for someone like you to have a new relationship out of the public eye? Or maybe it doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t matter. JENNIFER LOPEZ: No, it matters, especially at the beginning of a relationship. I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye. You know the media&amp;amp;#8212;they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts. So can I [be private in a relationship]? Yeah. I think so. When I&amp;amp;#8217;m ready to do that, I will. But I&amp;amp;#8217;m not thinking about that right now. JANE FONDA: What have you learned from all of your past relationships that prepares you better for a new relationship? JENNIFER LOPEZ: I think that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve finally learned the biggest lesson of all. JANE FONDA: What is it? JENNIFER LOPEZ: You&amp;amp;#8217;ve got to love yourself first. You&amp;amp;#8217;ve got to be OK on your own before you can be OK with somebody else. You&amp;amp;#8217;ve got to value yourself and know that you&amp;amp;#8217;re worth everything. JANE FONDA: And not settle for less. JENNIFER LOPEZ: And until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can&amp;amp;#8217;t really have a healthy relationship. JANE FONDA: I agree. We talk about falling in love. What&amp;amp;#8217;s wrong with that sentence? Falling. When you love yourself, you don&amp;amp;#8217;t fall. You stand on two feet. JENNIFER LOPEZ: That&amp;amp;#8217;s right. Standing on two feet, seeing everything straight and right and clearly. You&amp;amp;#8217;re absolutely right. So what should we call it? Walking in love? I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know, we have to find something else! We&amp;amp;#8217;ve got to redefine that. JANE FONDA: As a three-time divorcee myself, I think what&amp;amp;#8217;s most important is being brave enough to learn from the failures. Can you talk about that a little? JENNIFER LOPEZ: I just think when it&amp;amp;#8217;s easy, it&amp;amp;#8217;s great. But when something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not that you&amp;amp;#8217;re wrong; it&amp;amp;#8217;s that sometimes you just need to make adjustments. Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing. JANE FONDA: I read that you once fired a manager who told you to lose weight. Do you think your attitude of &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m happy being curvy&amp;amp;#8221; has had an impact on girls? JENNIFER LOPEZ: Many people have told me it has, and that&amp;amp;#8217;s something I&amp;amp;#8217;m proud of. I was just so infuriated that somebody said you couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t have a little extra meat on you&amp;amp;#8212;because I was by no means fat! That was so mean and closed-minded. I was like, &amp;amp;#8220;No, this is who I am, and this is the type of woman that I grew up with, and it was beautiful and there&amp;amp;#8217;s no reason to be anybody but myself.&amp;amp;#8221; JANE FONDA: Do you still get pressure from people to have your body look a different way? JENNIFER LOPEZ: No, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t get that now. I think people know better. [Laughs.] JANE FONDA: How has your style evolved through the years? JENNIFER LOPEZ: The things I liked when I was, like, 16 and in the Bronx&amp;amp;#8212;jeans, cut-up T-shirts&amp;amp;#8212;I still like. But I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been exposed to so much now from traveling the world and seeing couture clothes. I used all of that when I created my new line for Kohl&amp;amp;#8217;s. My style has come from everything, from where I started to where I am today. JANE FONDA: When I did The Oprah Show, she flashed a picture of you and asked the first word that came to mind, and I said &amp;amp;#8220;street-smart.&amp;amp;#8221; But afterward, I thought I should have added &amp;amp;#8220;gorgeous.&amp;amp;#8221; Your skin is amazing. Any secrets? Don&amp;amp;#8217;t tell me you just wash your face and moisturize. JENNIFER LOPEZ: I really do! And I&amp;amp;#8217;ve just started using these treatment masks&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;amp;#8217;re like paper masks, from SK-II [Beauty editors&amp;amp;#8217; note: They&amp;amp;#8217;re $90 for six at shop.sk-ii.com]. They&amp;amp;#8217;re moisturizing masks and age-defying, and I love them. JANE FONDA: A number of women in Hollywood, like Kate Winslet and Salma Hayek, are speaking out against plastic surgery. What are your thoughts on that either way? JENNIFER LOPEZ: Honestly, I&amp;amp;#8217;m not going to make a judgment on it because I don&amp;amp;#8217;t have to yet. I mean, I&amp;amp;#8217;d like to think I&amp;amp;#8217;ll feel great about myself and age gracefully, but then I think, Well, what if I do want a little bit of something? I&amp;amp;#8217;m open to being open. JANE FONDA: You&amp;amp;#8217;ve said that when the twins came, you experienced a new kind of love. Can you talk about what you meant by that? JENNIFER LOPEZ: Anybody who&amp;amp;#8217;s had children knows this feeling of deep love. It&amp;amp;#8217;s a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened. You&amp;amp;#8217;re going, &amp;amp;#8220;Wait a minute, this is how pure love is supposed to feel.&amp;amp;#8221; They made me really, really see and feel what it should be. JANE FONDA: I&amp;amp;#8217;ve read that you bring your children with you when you go on location. Have you thought about how you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to manage that when they get older and they start into serious school? JENNIFER LOPEZ: They just started school, three days a week, and so I have to travel without them here and there. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s really important for them to be with me, and they&amp;amp;#8217;re surrounded by family when I&amp;amp;#8217;m not there. JANE FONDA: I love that. I read that instead of having nannies, now you have your mom, sister and best friend to help you look after them. JENNIFER LOPEZ: Yes, yes. My cousins help me, my best friend. It takes a village&amp;amp;#8212;you do really learn what that means once you have kids. But I like to wake up with them, I like to put them to bed, and even if I have to go back to work after I spend that couple of hours with them between dinner and when they go to bed, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll do that. JANE FONDA: Your not-for-profit, the Maribel Foundation, helps women and children by linking top medical specialists to patients in inaccessible locations. Why is that cause so important to you? JENNIFER LOPEZ: My sister and I are so in love with our children, and we wanted to do something for [others]. We opened our first clinic in Puerto Rico a year ago, and we&amp;amp;#8217;re opening another one in Panama. It&amp;amp;#8217;s something that we plan to do for a very long time. JANE FONDA: Jennifer, I&amp;amp;#8217;m proud and honored to be your friend and to know you. Thank you for letting me interview you. JENNIFER LOPEZ: Thank you! The feeling is mutual. You know how much I look up to you. JANE FONDA: Bye, honey! Jane Fonda is an actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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