Jennifer Lopez learned a lot about herself in therapy.
On Friday, the singer and actress (51) sat down for a virtual conversation with goalkeeping coach Jay Shetty in the first issue of Coach Conversations, a monthly Youtube series by the fashion brand, to reflect on life lessons, including self-love.
“I remember when I first went through therapy, you know, in my late thirties and there was a lot of talk about loving yourself and I was like, ‘I love myself,'” Lopez told Shetty. ‘But of course I did all these things like my personal relationships that didn’t seem like I loved myself, but I did not even understand the concept of it. It took time and it’s a journey and it’s still a journey for me. ‘
While Lopez did not specify which relationships were problematic, she married singer Marc Anthony in 2004 (the same year she and fiancé Ben Affleck split up). The former couple, who share twelve-year-old twins Max and Emme, announced their split in 2011 and Lopez is the current choreographer Casper Smart.
Lopez also considered spending a year in quarantine with fiancé Alex Rodriguez and their joint children. The downtime was ultimately a blessing in disguise as it forced them to take a breather from their traditional uninterrupted schedules.
But Lopez, who said her goal is to ’empower, inspire and entertain’, is still career-oriented. Her latest concert, which took place during the inauguration ceremony of President Joe Biden, included ‘America the Beautiful’ and Woody Guthrie’s song ‘This Land Is Your Land’ from 1944. With the performance of her own, Lopez adds a phrase adding the promise of fidelity in Spanish, and a line from her classic hit ‘Let’s Get Loud’.
Lopez still kept it humble, admitting that when she started her career as a dancer, she was not entirely confident about her skills. ‘I was not always the best dancer – I was a great dancer, but I was not the best dancer – and everyone is so competitive in this field, but I knew from the start that I put something extra into it. “She put my heart into it, my soul into it. In every movement there was a purpose behind it.”
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