TONY DURAN

“I think a lot of people just don’t understand what I’m about,” Jennifer says. “They see me laughing, having a good time and they may think ‘Oh, she’s so ambitious and everything,’ but the thing is that I’m just a creative person. If I could describe myself to somebody that’s how I would do it; I’d say ‘I’m creative and that’s what drives me.’ I think people think I’m driven by the money things and all that stuff. They get it so mixed up that they forget that’s not why I started doing it. I started doing it because I love to perform.”

Jennifer López was born in the Bronx, NY, on July 24 of 1969. Daughter of David, a computer technician, and Guadalupe, a pre-school teacher (both born in Puerto Rico), she is the second of three sisters. After graduating from high school, she focused all her efforts on being an artist and made dance classes a priority while waiting to be discovered. It was in 1990 that she became known as a dancer on the television program In Living Color. Although she made her film debut in 1987, in a small and now forgotten part in My Little Girl, ironically her real ticket to fame came in 1997, when she played the murdered Texan singer Selena, in a film of the same name. It was an interpretation so true to life that Jennifer was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress. After several films, such as U Turn (directed by Oliver Stone) and Out of Sight (with George Clooney), Jennifer caused a sensation in the music world with her first album, On the 6. Then in 2001, she became the first woman to have the number one movie (The Wedding Planner, with Matthew McConaughey) and album ( J.Lo) in popularity and sales in the same week.

Then came Ben Affleck.