Jennifer Lopez mag dan een van de meest verafgode lichamen van Hollywood hebben, ook zij is in het begin van haar carrière geconfronteerd met onrealistische schoonheidsidealen. 'They kept telling me to lose weight,' vertelt ze aan E!. 'And I was a dancer and I was athletic and even my manager at the time, who I no longer work with, um, was telling me, "You need to lose weight. You need to be thinner."'

Gelukkig ging J.Lo destijds tegen de belachelijke eisen in: 'I was like, "No I don't. If I lose any more weight it won't be me." You know what I mean?"'

Jennifer vertelt dit verhaal, geïnspireerd door een fan, die door J.Lo's zelfverzekerdheid zelf geen strakke shirtjes meer draagt onder haar kleding. 'It was a fight. It was definitely a fight, and so it's good to hear that it helped anybody in some way because at the end of the day I was just trying to be myself without trying to fit into a mold of what everybody else should be.'

De zangeres is dan ook helemaal anti body-shaming en voor acceptatie van elk lichaam. 'It's a different time now, you know, which is awesome to see for me, where it's about our differences. It's about all the diversity. It's just a more accepting time of everything, whether it's body type or race or gender. We've come a long way.'

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Bron: ELLE.com