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It wasn’t always pretty, and it wasn’t always easy.

As Lopez said atWSJ.

Jennifer Lopez out and about in New York City in 2024

Magazine’s 2020 Innovator Awards, “Growing up in the Bronx really did shape me.”

Lopez added that her mom was the “narcissistic, center of the attention, life-of-the-party-pop in person.”

All that being said, she now seems to have an amicable relationship with both of her parents.

Jennifer Lopez and her mother Guadalupe Rodriguez walk around New York together in December 2018

I may not do that anymore, but I think it gave me a good basis …

This included a whole lot of different extracurricular activities focused on both athletics and creative performances.

Lopez revealed toHarper’s Bazaarin May 2024, “It’s just a plain orange drink…

Jennifer Lopez at the Vanity Fair Awards Season gala in January 2025

It came in a little plastic container with a little bit of aluminum foil over it.

At least that viral mystery from Lopez’s childhood has (probably) been solved!

“I didn’t want to go to college I wanted to try dance full-time.

Jennifer Lopez performs on stage at a Unicef event in Italy

So she and I had a break,” Lopez toldW Magazinein July 2013.

“I started sleeping on the sofa in the dance studio.

I was homeless, but I told her, ‘This is what I have to do.'”

Jennifer Lopez out and about in New York City in 2024

This set her path to stardom, but she never forgot where she came from.

As Lopez said in her acceptance speech at WSJ.

Jennifer Lopez attends Variety’s Creative Impact Awards 2025