Jennifer Lopezhas nothing but gratitude for the life she has now as one of Hollywood’s most recognizable forces, but she can’t help but think about how things could be if she wasn’t famous.
Alongside a cover shoot forVanity Fair‘s 26th Annual Hollywood Issue featuring herself,Eddie MurphyandRenée Zellweger, Lopez, 50, opened up about how much she appreciates what she has been able to experience but admitted she has one experience on her bucket list.
“Sometimes I didn’t believe my life,” she said. “I don’t believe what happens to me andthe things that I’m able to experienceand the opportunities that I’ve gotten. It’s every single moment, even till this moment, surprises me and touches my heart in a way that I could never really even begin to explain.”
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However, “I would love to live somewhere other than the United States, in a small town in Italy, or on the other side of the world, in Bali,” Lopez also revealed in the interview. “Find another life where it’s alittle bit more simple and organicand where I get to ride a bike, and buy bread, and put it in my basket, and then go home and put jelly on it, and just eat and paint.”
“Or sit in a rocking chair where there was a beautiful view of an olive tree or an oak tree and I could just smell,” added the singer andHustlersstar. “I have fantasies like that.”
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From L to R: Eddie Murphy, Renée Zellweger andJennifer LopezforVanity Fair.Ethan James Green/Vanity Fair
It may be a long time (if ever) until Lopez doesn’t get recognized everywhere she goes, though. In addition to her recent buzzed-about role inHustlersand a music career that doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon, the longtime star set toheadline the 2020 Super Bowl halftime shownext month alongsideShakirain Miami.
“It’s a perfect moment in my life, honestly, but it’s also a great time for a Latina women to take the stage at the biggest all-American event, with everything that’s going on in the country right now,” Lopez toldVanity Fairof why she believes now is a great time to do the show.
“I’m super happy to represent my community, to represent women and to represent everybody, you know?” she added. “It’s abig platform to bring people together… it gets a lot of eyeballs. So if you can spread a little bit of love and positivity, and make people know that we’re all in this together? I look at it as a blessing.”
From L to R: Eddie Murphy, Renée Zellweger and Jennifer Lopez coverVanity Fair.Ethan James Green/Vanity Fair
Alongside a flourishing music and acting career, Lopez is also mom to 11-year-old twinsEmme Maribel and Maximilian “Max” David, as well as a soon-to-be stepmom to fiancéAlex Rodriguez‘s daughtersElla Alexander, 11, andNatasha Alexander, 15.
And as far as her work goes, the multi-hyphenate powerhouse toldVanity Fairthat while “dancing and music are my first loves,” the “love of my life” is acting.
“Every time I take on a role, it is only about becoming somebody that I’m not,” she explained. “When they go in and see me, they don’t seeJ. Lo— they see the maid,they see the stripper, they seewho they’re supposed to see, because I’m able to still give you the suspension of disbelief. That is the challenge of it for me, but also the thrill.”
source: people.com
