Jennifer Lynn Lopez is daughter of Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez (schoolteacher) and David Lopez (computer specialist). She was born and brought up in the Castle Hill, South Bronx, New York City. Her older sister Leslie Lopez is a homemaker and her younger sister Lynda Lopez is a DJ and journalist. She studied in the Holy Family Catholic Church and Grammar School in Castle Hill, Bronx. She graduated from Preston High School in Throgs Neck, Bronx, New York City in 1987.

Early Life

Jennifer started learning singing and dancing when she was five years old. She was a wonderful athlete and took part in sports at school. Jennifer left her parent's house when she was eighteen and worked at a law office. She did dancing jobs at night. She got big break in Fox's hit comedy named In Living Color in 1990 as a fly girl. Lopez began her dancing career for singer and actress Janet Jackson.

Spouse

Marc Anthony: (5 June 2004 - 16 June 2014) (divorced) (2 children)
Cris Judd: (29 September 2001 - 26 January 2003) (divorced)
Ojani Noa: (22 February 1997 - 1 January 1998) (divorced)
Ex-boyfriend: Rapper Sean Diddy Combs

Golden Globes, USA

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 

People's Choice Awards, USA

Teen Choice Awards

• Her nickname was "The Supernova" in her Bronx
• Cris Judd (ex-husband) and Ben Affleck (ex-fiancée) share the same birthday.
• Despite of Puerto Rican descent, she struggles to communicate in Spanish.
• Her written song "Dear Ben" inspired by her fiancée Ben Affleck
• $2.4-million jackpot won by her mother at the Borgata Casino (Atlantic City, New Jersey) in 2004.
• Her fashion line "Sweetface" drew controversy for excessive use of fur for the clothes.
• People magazine paid $6 million for the photos (Front Cover) of her four weeks old twins in 2008.
• Her twins Max and Emme named after the lead characters in Dragon Tales (1999).
• Creation of Google images inspired by her Green Versace Dress which she wore at the 42nd Grammy Awards.
• Jennifer Lopez is dreadfully awful in operating computers. She admits that she lacks computer skill and she has a tough time using computers.
• Jennifer is a buff of relationships books. She likes to purchase and read books, which are all on love and relationships. May be her failed relationships responsible behind this hobby.
• Jennifer Lopez nicknamed as "La Guitarra” because of her body which is curved just like a guitar.
• It was believed and assumed for a long time that Jennifer loves the color white. She desires and demands all white around her (e.g.: white decors, white flowers, white curtains etc.)

• People magazine chosen her as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People” in the World in 1997.
• FHM voted her 1 in "100 Sexiest Women” list of 2001.
• FHM magazine voted her the Sexiest Woman in the World twice.
• E!' named her on the list of "Top 20 Entertainers of 2001".
• Celebrity Bodies (UK) magazine voted her 1 as Best Female Body in 2001
• Premiere magazine ranked her 75 in 2002 annual Power 100 List.
• FHM Taiwan ranked her 1st of the 100 Sexiest Women in 2001.
• FHM magazine ranked her 5 in Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll (American edition).
• FHM magazine ranked her 1 in Sexiest Girls of 2000 and 2001 editions of the poll
• Premiere magazine ranked her 47 in 2003 annual Power 100 List.
• Premiere magazine ranked her 76 in 2002 annual Power 100 List.
• Australian Empire Magazine voted her the 4th "Sexiest Female Movie Star” in 2002.
• Maxim magazine ranked her 5 in "Hot 100” List of 2003.
• FHM magazine ranked her 5 on "100 Sexiest Women in the World” 2003 list
• Stuff magazine ranked her 4 on 125 "Sexiest Women of the Year 2003” in the "Loveliest Latin Ladies" section
• Stuff magazine ranked her 2 in "102 Sexiest Women in the World" in 2002.
• People magazine named her on the list of "Fifty Most Beautiful People” for 1997
• FHM magazine named her 31 in "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005"
• FHM magazine named her 26 in "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006"
• VH1 ranked her 3 in the list of "100 Sexiest Artists”.
• Hollywood Walk of Fame honored her as the 2,500th star on June 20, 2013.

1. "I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.” (Interview with Maria Shriver, The Today Show, November 3, 2014)
2. "Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.” (Elle, January 5, 2010)
3. "In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out instead of just one. There are so many different kinds of happiness, not just the one you learned about when you were 5 years old.” (InStyle, April 2014)

1. "I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.” (Vogue, March 15, 2012)

5. "I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.” (Woman's Day Magazine, November 13, 2007)
6. "Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.” (Woman's Day Magazine, June 1, 2007)
7. "It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks is beautiful in order to be beautiful or feel beautiful.... People think, Sexy, big breasts, curvy body, no cellulite. It's not that. Take the girl at the beach with the cellulite legs, wearing her bathing suit the way she likes it, walking with a certain air, comfortable with herself. That woman is sexy. Then you see the perfect girl who's really thin, tugging at her bathing suit, wondering how her hair looks. That's not sexy.” (Readers Digest, August 2003)
8. "I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of traveling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.” (Interview, May 2005)
9. "I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.” (Readers Digest, August 2003)
10. "I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big on ad-libbing and improv-ing and messing things up, so I feel very comfortable doing stuff like that.” (Interview, May 2005)
11. "I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.” (Readers Digest, August 2003)
12. "I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.” (Interview, May 2005)