Singer talks working hard for her career, family life

Dec 16, 2009 11:25 GMT  ·  By

Singer Jennifer Lopez is slowly preparing for the release of her latest album, called “Love?,” from which fans have already heard a few tracks. In the January 2010 issue of Allure magazine, the singer openly talks about anything and everything, from how hard it was for her to kick-start her music career to how she’d like husband Marc Anthony to quit smoking.

She wasn’t a wonder child, the kind that just opens her mouth and amazing music comes out, Jennifer says. Unlike her husband, she had to work very hard to get where she is now, she recalls. This means that, in her case, her success of today is 20 percent inspiration and 80 percent perspiration, as the saying goes, and she’s the first to own up to that. Given her accomplishments so far, Lopez has every reason to be proud, one might as well add.

“It wasn’t like it was with Marc, who opened his mouth at age three and was blessed with a voice from God. That wasn’t me. I had to work at it, but I knew that once I had achieved it, people would respond to me in a certain way,” Jennifer says for Allure. She has come a long way, though, even if things were not as relatively easy for her as they were for Mr. Anthony, Lopez being one of the best selling female artists of the decade.

With this amount of fame also came exposure in the media, which translated into her becoming a paparazzi magnet. “It’s a business. Once they stop making money off of you they stop coming around,” Lopez says in relation to being less hassled by paps today, as opposed to a couple of years ago. Speaking of business, “Part of my business is being in shape and looking good. You can’t lie to yourself about it. But I’m not the monster I used to be in the exercise department,” the singer adds.

Fresh off Jennifer Lopez’s “Love?” album, fans have “Fresh Out the Oven,” a dance song introducing the singer’s alter-ego, Lola (who will not become a fixture, though, it has been announced), and “Louboutins,” a song that got even the prestigious designer creating the iconic shoes saying he was proud of being named so many times on it.