Exclusive: Jennifer Lopez "Didn't Care" About "Flabby Belly" After Twins' Birth
Jennifer Lopez wasn't afraid to laugh at herself -- or her post-baby figure -- after welcoming Emme and Max (her twins with husband Marc Anthony) in February 2008.
"I remember my flabby belly hanging out right after I gave birth," Lopez, 40, confides in the new issue of Us Weekly. "I kind of laughed and said to Marc, 'Look, baby! Isn't this crazy?' I just didn't care."
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The superstar -- just named Us Weekly's Style Icon of the Decade -- admits that she feels differently about that "belly" in hindsight. "I look back at pictures from that time, and I'm like 'Oh, god, I was fat. I was still heavy eight months out!'"
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It was Emme and Max who finally inspired Lopez to get her famous body back and shed 50 pounds. The star of The Back-Up Plan explains: "You get to the point where you're like, Where am I? What happened to me? I got to get myself together for my kids, you know? They need to know what I really look like."
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Not that everything is exactly as it was before she became a mom. Although she's "back to the size I was before I had the babies," Lopez says her "rib cage" shifted while carrying her son and daughter. "Before I was always able to fit into sample-size clothes from designers, and now they have to take them out just a bit...It's no big deal."
For more of our exclusive interview with Lopez -- including her step-by-step meal and fitness plan, her "tough" experience with a Master Cleanse, her biggest red-carpet regret, her secret to a happy marriage and more on the twins -- pick up the new Us Weekly, on newsstands today!
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59she is an entertainer and a style icon. she looks amazing, and she did when she was pregnant as well. she should not be saying i looked awful or overweight. you were pregnant with twins. what does a person expect. we forget that we are women and human and not only meant to be barbie dolls. This issue of weight is a problem especially women killing themselves to lose it after having kids and we expect ourselves to be like these celebrities whose JOB it is to look like this
Y'all need to stop hatin'. J Lo is an entertainer. She gives a great concert if any of you even ever seen her. She is a great actress, that is why she is gettin' paid. She is an entrepreneur and has done her own thing. Don't hate the player, hate the game. And she can give a rat's a$$ what hater's think. J Lo is one of the most BEAUTIFUL women out there. Do your thing Mami. Boricua!!!!
Of course not! Plastic surgery can cure that!
Angie I agree with you. I do think she's pretty but she annoys me. I think she is by far a better actress than she is a singer & I cringe each time one of her songs comes on someplace when I'm out & about but I don't mind watching her in some movies. Her "real life" personality is pretty fake if you ask me. I'm just not buying it. She always seems to have the same affect in "real life" as in her acting gigs so it just seems so contrived when I see her outside of a movie role.
The pundits say The Back-Up Plan is contrived and artificial, taking an intriguing premise and bulldozing it with strained, weather-beaten gags and manufactured quirkiness. Now all J.Lo has is to pimp out her kids for fame. Here comes the new Lohan's and they are not even three.
She looks fabulous! Good for her.
s.d. you are disgusting. why do you write nasty stuff like that? you think it is attractive or something? why dont you keep crap like that to yourself?
WOW!! jealousy is not good!! 1st of to the b***h that said she is fat... no mamma she just isnt anorexic or the usual white chick... sorry hun.. and so what if she wants to look good! hey i want to look good and i care alot about the way i look i workout alot and am a mother of a 3yr old so i can imagine her wanting to look good shes a celeb.. people just take what she said and like to twist it, i know she didnt it mean it like that to "want to show her kids how she really looks", she prob meant to say she dont want to look like an old fat hag shoot whatev works JENN u look hot and im still a fann...u are a bi**h thou!! but hey arent we all!!!!!!!lol :p
Why do her kids need to know "They need to know what I really look like." So she is going to give her daughter a complex about having kids and what she will look like? What if her daughter doesnt bounce back like she did?
Jennifer's so d.a.m.n. hot. Yummy! I would eat the corn out of her s.h.i.t. if she would let me. Gorgeous, and only getting better with time. She really settled for her ugly, emaciated, sallow husband Marc. He proves you don't have to be good looking, to land a hottie like Jennifer. Lucky him!
This fake-ass skank needs to just disappear once and for all! Hope Back Up Plan tanks big time. Maybe then she'll take a hint and realize her 15 looooooooooooooooooooooooooong seconds are over.
She is a good role model for working women, and for real women who want to look great after motherhood. She never was as sample size and she never was a skinny blond and he makes life visually interesting. It gets so old one skinny blond woman after the next. We should celebrate working mammas and there is nothing wrong with wanting to look your best for your kids, especially your daughters!!!
She's way too vane not to care.
It is great to look as hot as you can, and sets a good example. I don't think her body every went back and that is OK, and it would be great to hear more stars say it. We should celebrate motherhood. She has a beautiful body and had a beautiful body and props to her for being not a skinnie minnie. Who cares if they fit into a sample size if they look healthy and great. For having twins after 35 she looks great. It is a shame they have to lie when what real women want are real role models for working motherhood. Her interviews should highlight that. There are many beautiful Latinas but she should be credited with bringing to the limelight beauty in all its forms, not just skinny and blond.
she is only saying that now because she lost the weight.
Have you seen the babies nursery? The ritz isn't as fancy! She 'works out' so the twins will know what she looks like? Please! I KNOW she doesn't love Marc Anthony. He is on borrowed time. He was only a rebound from Ben Affleck, who she loved and who dumped her. She always had an EXCUSE for breaking up her marriages for other men. She'll do it to Marc Anthony. You wait.
The rib cage thing happened to me too and the top of my hips widened. I can still wear much of the same clothes but tops and the waistbands of some of my pants are tighter. Pregnancy changes your body, even after you lose the weight.
J-Lo is deluding herself about her life. She is getting faker and faker as the years and her opportunities dry up. And as one person said, she is lying through her louboutins. Reminds me of the time she fell as the Music Awards and the next day she was all, "I meant to fall" yeah whatever Jenny ..
HAHAHAAHA!! Yeah right she didn't care- PLEASE!
OMG why would she obviously lie about fitting into sample sizes!!! sample size for lane bryant maybe. and dont get me wrong..i think she had a great body. but still. no way. thats why she had a good body! maybe she haS a great body...i cant tell by the picture. seems a little convienent to me!