{"id":1515602,"date":"2022-06-14T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515602"},"modified":"2022-06-14T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:34:19","slug":"jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Why She Was \u2018Going To Quit\u2019 Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515602&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Jennifer Lopez opened up about what she has called the \u201cmany times\u201d she thought she was just \u201cgoing to quit\u201d Hollywood because she said she was believing everything she was hearing about herself in the media.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/worst-idea-in-the-world-jennifer-lopez-slams-choice-to-appear-in-super-bowl-halftime-show-with-shakira\">52-year-old<\/a> actress\u2019 upcoming Netflix documentary \u201cHalftime,\u201d the singer talked about how in the early days she had to find out who she really was because she had \u201creally low self-esteem\u201d and believed what she was hearing in the media about herself, per an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/jennifer-lopez-documentary-5-things-learned-halftime-rcna33198\">NBC News<\/a>\u00a0piece published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter what I achieved,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jennifer-lopez-hits-stage-in-equality-fur-coat-as-drag-queens-show-off-her-famed-looks\">Lopez<\/a> explained in the film. \u201cTheir [the media\u2019s] appetite to cover my personal life overshadowed everything. I believed a lot of what they said, which is that I wasn\u2019t really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMy whole life i&#8217;ve been battling and battling to be heard\u2026 to be seen\u2026 to be taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lopez\u2019s Halftime is now on Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kM1SRCGspQ\">pic.twitter.com\/kM1SRCGspQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Netflix (@netflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/1536740259937112064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were many times where I was like I think I\u2019m just going to quit,\u201d she added. \u201cI had to really figure out who I was and believe in that and not believe anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documentary also looked at the early days of her romance with Ben Affleck and how their relationship was mocked by late-night hosts. The two got engaged in 2003 and then broke things off in 2004. The two have since rekindled their relationship in the last year and are now engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Affleck appeared in the film and noted how he asked her once about the scrutiny she was under back in the early days of their romance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to her once, doesn\u2019t this bother you?\u201d the actor shared. \u201cAnd she said, \u2018I\u2019m Latina, I expected this.\u2019 You just don\u2019t expect it, you expect to be treated fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the documentary focused on how when the \u201cHustlers\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jennifer-lopez-trolled-after-working-her-own-song-into-inaugural-performance\">star<\/a> came on the scene she wasn\u2019t the \u201cideal\u201d look of beauty and shared clips of how people in the industry would mock her butt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started working, the beauty ideal was very thin, blonde, tall, not a lot of curves,\u201d Lopez explained. \u201cIt was hard when you think people think you\u2019re a joke. Like you\u2019re a punchline. But I wound up affecting things in a way that I never intended to affect them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lopez opened up about what she has called the \u201cmany times\u201d she thought she was just \u201cgoing to quit\u201d Hollywood because she said she was believing everything she was hearing about herself in the media. During the 52-year-old actress\u2019 upcoming Netflix documentary \u201cHalftime,\u201d the singer talked about how in the early days she had &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1515697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}