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Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Marc Anthony Split in Vanity Fair Cover Story

Truth rating: 10

(Vanity Fair/Mario Testino)

Jennifer Lopez opens up to Vanity Fair for the first time since her split with Marc Anthony.

The “American Idol” judge tells the September issue of the magazine, “I really worked hard at [the marriage]. We both did.”

Still, she acknowledges, “Sometimes it doesn’t work — and that’s sad.

Nevertheless, says Lopez, “I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love… It’s still my biggest dream. I am positive — determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person. I now look forward to new challenges. I feel strong.”

The singer-actress, who also touches on exes Diddy and Ben Affleck in the article, adds, “I’m a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love,” but explains, “It’s not that I didn’t love myself before. Sometimes we don’t realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself — if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.”

Lopez tells Vanity Fair, “I will always respect Marc as a singer and performer… We actually work great together, and he was always very supportive. Together we could make magic — and we did. He will always be in our lives. He will always hold a special place in my heart as the father of my children.”

The issue hits newsstands later this week.

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  • Junie

    I can’t figure out what happened except that the two must have fallen out of love. Then I can’t see how that happened if both of them worked hard at their marriage and it was really love in the beginning. Sometimes, I think money and fame cause celebs to live in a world of fantasy. I just like seeing marriages work especially where children are involved… any marriage – celeb or not. Celebs should think through marrying that other person carefully before making that commitment + the involvement of bringing children into it. They are talking about how America is going down, just imagine what the future children will be like. A divided house has a hard time standing. The government should start educating people by using media and school, etc to encourage marriages to stay together. To me, this is sad because celebs are role models.

  • jae

    I think that some folks rush into marriage because they get caught up in the initial passion and believe that is enough to make the marriage work before they know each other better enough to have made the committment in the first place. Too many people are in a really fast hurry to prove something to the world before they know themselves well enough to know what they can or cannot deal with in life. Finding out after you make that committment of marriage to someone that you cannot deal with the committment is the reason why the divorce rate is so high. People just don’t take the time to find that out before they say I do. But, I can agree with you on the fact that once children are brought into the equation people should try harder to work it out, however, when two people fall out of love for each other, it does not mean they love their children any less, but to stay in a failed relationship where there can be more damage done emotionally to the children if there is constant fighting and bickering is not healthy for them either.

  • SarahB

    We must not forget that Marc Anthony had a wife (Dayanara Torres) and a 9-month old baby and a 2-year old, but he continually cheated on her so she filed for a divorce, but Dayanara was still legally his wife when he start sneaking around with JLO, after Ben Affleck dumped her. Marc rushed to the Dominican Republic and divorced his wife, and married JLO 4 days later. How could a man leave his baby in diapers and a 2-year old behind so he could start a new life with another woman? That’s cold, and what type of a woman would marry a man 4 days after he divorces his wife under those circumstances?

    The Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony marriage started out wrong. Marc was just the rebound guy after Ben Affleck, and Dayanara Torres was the one that was humiliated and left to fend for herself with Marc’s little children while he pranced in front of the media with Lopez calling her “the love of his life”.

    You reap what you sow. You don’t inflict pain on other’s and expect long-term happiness for yourself.

  • Melissa

    Jennifer Lopez is only telling her side of the story, Marc is not even talking, and a small part of me believes this may be a publicity stunt to promote there Latin American Idol-type reality show. Per her interview with Vanity Fair, on one hand he’s not right for her, but on the other she’s going to still be working with him because they make magic. That doesn’t make sense. I also read that if they say they are seperated but still working together, sponsers will take on their show because it will draw viewers.

    Don’t be surprised if they never divorce, because I believe this is all a publicity stunt to promote their show.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1838146755 Ifeoluwa ‘Bintuano’ Kaybee

    i think the two of them should seat themselves down and really fashion things out.i honestly dunno what the problem is with all these celebs,one min they are married, the next its drama. its just a shame that a lot of people see them as role models and most teenagers wanna be like them but their lifestyle and legacies they live behind them is just not something to write home about as one begin to wonder if fame cant work with love. j.lo should have a rethink about the father of her babies and wherever the love which was between them initially has gone to,she had better go look for it

  • Jenny

    I find this whole relationship and its aftermath to be bizarre. She can’t seem to stop talking..about herself mostly..but still talking two weeks after they separated. Usually people try to be discrete, but she does not seem to be in any pain at all, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but she could keep her mouth shut for a bit for the sake of her children. He has basically gone underground, which is better to me. It is all what she has to say and how she feels, which makes it all very one-sided and therefore, to me only one-half true.

  • Jenny

    I find this whole relationship and its aftermath to be bizarre. She can’t seem to stop talking..about herself mostly..but still talking two weeks after they separated. Usually people try to be discrete, but she does not seem to be in any pain at all, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but she could keep her mouth shut for a bit for the sake of her children. He has basically gone underground, which is better to me. It is all what she has to say and how she feels, which makes it all very one-sided and therefore, to me only one-half true.

  • Anonymous

    I think people want marriage to always make them feel good and when it starts to make them feel anything else but passion and over-the-top exhilaration, they want out. “‘Til death do us part” has gone by the wayside and “‘Til i can’t handle your ass” has taken its place.

  • Linda

    Real classy of Jennifer Lopez to discuss her failed marriage with the public. And by the way this was at least her third marriage. She is no expert on love.

  • Linda

    Real classy of Jennifer Lopez to discuss her failed marriage with the public. And by the way this was at least her third marriage. She is no expert on love.

  • Misha

    i don’t like J.Lo anymore… I thought she has a real side to her but She’s just fake like most hollywood celebs.

  • twilight is underneath kstew

    agreed. jlo should’ve known what she was getting herself into marc is an ugly person inside and out. there have also been allegations of him for domestic abuse before but jlo didn’t care then and im sorry but she gets no sympathy from me. why talk about this if you’re not going to flat out tell what happened she is only leaving holes for others to speculate and i hate when celebs do that. why bother commenting if you are not going to flat out and tell it like it is. and im sure being with her was not all that great either. either way i can’t stand either one of these losers…

  • Sandih

    I never liked her and could careless about her stupid marriageS!!!!!

  • Guest

    Did people forget that JLo cheated on P.Diddy with Cris Judd?! Then she dumped Cris Judd for Ben Affleck.
    She also reportedly cheated on her first husband.

    Jennifer Lopez is a homewrecker. She had been carrying an off-and-on again illicit affair with Marc Anthony for many years before he shamelessly dumped Dayanara Torres. Dayanara Torres is a real victim of proven adultery unlike other actresses who have milked attention over tabloid gossip and false stories ( like America’s so-called sweetheart who was never actually betrayed). There was even documented evidence of Marc Anthony sneaking around Hollywood and Miami with Lopez even way before he was separated. Gross. She even went to a concert and premiere of his openly when she was still his mistress. It astounds what women like Lopez, Julia Roberts, Madonna, and Kate Hudson get away with because of spin and Hollywood favoritism while other actresses get wrongly hated so much over false accusations & misconceptions while people like Lopez are repeatedly proven to be scandalous. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are both narcissists and philanderers! I was rooting for them to end. It is no surprise that they ended and I am happy they are done.
    It is hypocritical how these entertainment shows and media just slid their scandal under the door while making them look like some wonderful couple.

    My sources say they were both cheating on each other and were aggressive/disrespectful towards each other in many ways. Also Lopez has taken it even further, by planting sources and getting her friends to trash talk Anthony in tabloids by making herself look like some victim. Lopez has no credibility. She is our generation’s Elizabeth Taylor ( another scandalous woman who did not deserve so much respect). At least, ET was talented.
    Neither Lopez or Marc Anthony are relationship-people. They need to stay single and not ruin anybody’s else lives.

    Of course, the tabs are going to link her to her co-stars and any new man in her vicinity. That is to be expected.
    I feel sorry for these guys because now they have to defend themselves from lies. Lopez is not to be trusted when it comes to marriage and family. I feel sorry for their twins.

  • Missy

    Thank you! Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez were an adulterous couple! Now JLo is imitating you know who when it comes to painting a version of herself and a marriage through a big Vanity Fair Interview and also using her friends to talk trash to the tabs. I do not trust either Marc Anthony or Jennifer Lopez because they both have always lacked class and character. Why did they have to have children together under those circumstances by using fertility treatments? Their poor twins. They are not cut out to be married or monogamous or parents. They both have a bad history but the media just loves Lopez. Most celebrities are fake but this takes the cake because it started dirty and wrong. I just hope Danny Moder and Julia Roberts split up as well as Tori & Dean and Eddie & LeAnn. I always root for proven adulterous celebrities to split up. People just forget that Lopez was a homewrecker and also suspiciously dumped Cris Judd after meeting Affleck. People forgot that Sandra Bullock wrecked Jesse James’ second marriage
    but she got all of this attention for being victimized when she knew she married a sex addict. I don’t get why the media is protective of truly scandalous and phony women yet they attack other celebrities quite outrageously over false accusations.

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