{"id":265050,"date":"2019-01-09T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1003377"},"modified":"2019-01-09T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:30:00","slug":"jennifer-lopez-blames-herself-for-multiple-failed-romances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jennifer-lopez-blames-herself-for-multiple-failed-romances\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Blames Herself for Multiple Failed Romances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201909\/rs_634x777-190109064141-634.jlo.1918.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jennifer Lopez, Harper's Bazaar\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez, Harper's Bazaar\" data-text=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Camilla Akrans\/Harper&#8217;s Bazaar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-1\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"69.941682600382\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"36.613766730402\">\n<p>Few people fall as hard\u2014or as fast\u2014as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_lopez\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Second Act<\/em> star has been dating <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/alex_rodriguez\">Alex Rodriguez<\/a><\/strong> since early 2017, and she couldn&#8217;t be happier than she is right now. It took a while to get here, of course, as she admits in the February issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/culture\/features\/a25725553\/jennifer-lopez-second-act-interview-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Harper&#8217;s Bazaar<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;For me, the relationship journey has been very up and down. But it didn&#8217;t have to do with anybody else but me\u2014it was about me figuring out me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until you learn to love yourself, you can&#8217;t completely love [someone else] in a way that is pure and true. Once you do that, you can have relationships that are based on love and respect, that are supportive and nourishing. There&#8217;s an evolution there that had to happen for me,&#8221; says the multi-talented superstar, who&#8217;s been married three times. &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m in a better place now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, who&#8217;s endured high-profile break-ups from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ben_affleck\">Ben Affleck<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/marc_anthony\">Marc Anthony<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sean_diddy_combs\">Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/casper_smart\">Casper Smart<\/a><\/strong>, has never given up on love\u2014or herself. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got two amazing kids and a great boyfriend. I don&#8217;t have everything figured out, and everything isn&#8217;t perfect,&#8221; she says. &#8220;But I feel very proud that with all the things I&#8217;ve gone through in my personal life, I&#8217;m still optimistic and hopeful.&#8221; At times, life in the limelight can be difficult. And although she has developed a thick skin over the years, she&#8217;d rather not see her name in the tabloids. &#8220;You&#8217;re trying to do your best and people are putting you down, or trying to make believe you&#8217;re not a nice person, or you&#8217;re a diva,&#8221; Lopez complains. &#8220;I&#8217;m always like, &#8216;Who are you talking about?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>Early in her career, Lopez realized she&#8217;s considered a role model to millions. But more than anything, she feels a responsibly to show her two children what it means to be good people. &#8220;Once I had kids, I realized that I had to be better and do better. Not just for them but for myself. There&#8217;s something about being responsible for another human being that makes you go, &#8216;OK, what am I doing for myself? How can I take care of someone else if I can&#8217;t even take care of myself? How can I teach them how they should be treated if I allow people to treat me in a way that&#8217;s not nice? How can I teach them to be hard workers if I&#8217;m not working hard?'&#8221; she tells the magazine (available Jan. 22). &#8220;I started examining myself from all different angles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lopez is particularly proud of her longevity in show business.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-4-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201909\/rs_634x783-190109064140-634.jlo-hb.1918.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jennifer Lopez, Harper's Bazaar\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez, Harper's Bazaar\" data-text=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Camilla Akrans\/Harper&#8217;s Bazaar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"68.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27\">\n<p>&#8220;At this point in my life, I&#8217;m trying to give myself more credit. It&#8217;s hard when people are always telling you that you&#8217;re not good at things or saying, &#8216;Why is she successful?&#8217; You get a lot of that when you&#8217;re a successful woman. You don&#8217;t get that as much when you&#8217;re a man. The thing about people, women especially, is that you can have 12 people telling you you&#8217;re amazing, but that one person kind of putting you down, that&#8217;s the voice that sticks in your head\u2026Then finally you go, &#8216;Wait, I&#8217;m not lying. I&#8217;ve been doing this a long time. This is not a mistake. I worked hard to be here.&#8217; And you know what? Congratulations to myself. Not in an arrogant way, by any means,&#8221; the &#8220;Dinero&#8221; singer clarifies. &#8220;It&#8217;s like, &#8216;You&#8217;re doing good, baby. Give yourself a break.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Admitting she&#8217;s a &#8220;workaholic,&#8221; Lopez says, &#8220;At the end of the day I just feel like I have a desire to create and sing and dance and act and make movies and write books and direct and produce and perform. I&#8217;m excited whenever I work on a new project.&#8221; She gets tired &#8220;a lot,&#8221; but she&#8217;s never thought about throwing in the towel. &#8220;I just think I need a break. I really feel like I have a lot left that I want to do. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll ever get to a point where I&#8217;ll be satisfied and go, &#8216;I did it. All of it. I&#8217;m done. I got nothing else to say,'&#8221; she admits. &#8220;I hope that day never comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1003377\/jennifer-lopez-blames-herself-for-multiple-failed-romances?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camilla Akrans\/Harper&#8217;s Bazaar Few people fall as hard\u2014or as fast\u2014as Jennifer Lopez. The Second Act star has been dating Alex Rodriguez since early 2017, and she couldn&#8217;t be happier than she is right now. It took a while to get here, of course, as she admits in the February issue of Harper&#8217;s Bazaar: &#8220;For me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 04:19:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}