Jennifer Lopez plans to keep doing this for a very long time. For more than two decades, the singer, dancer, actress, and entrepreneur has maintained a high profile in the entertainment business.
While raising two children and going through divorces, breakups, and makeups, Lopez revealed how resilient she can be when it comes to being in shape, having a healthy lifestyle, and having a work ethic like no other.
The New Yorker recently did an interview with ELLE to promote her latest projects — an album called This is Me… Now — a follow-up to her This is Me… Then album that was released more than 20 years ago and a movie entitled This is Me… Now: The Film.
The project was inspired by her unique love story with her husband, Ben Affleck.
The 54-year-old superstar is featured on one of the covers of Elle‘s 2023 Women in Hollywood issue.
During the interview with the publication, Lopez was asked if she planned to retire someday, and she gave a bonkers answer saying: “I see myself working [as long as] I want to. I don’t know what that age is. It might be 70, it might be 80, it might be 90, I don’t know. But I know that it’s there for me if I want it and I want to create it. That has always been the mindset that I’ve had: to never let anybody put me in a box because of where I was born, where I’m from, what age I am, anything like that. Those boundaries don’t exist for me.”
She went on to reveal why she can permit herself to have no retirement plan: “People have realized that women just get sexier as they get older. They get more learned and richer in character. All of that is very beautiful and attractive, and not just physically, but on the inside—the beauty that you gain as you get older, the wisdom you gain.”
During the conversation, she also spoke about her decision to make projects about women.
She shared: “People were laying the groundwork for this for a long time. It’s just that sometimes it takes time to move these mountains and these old ideas and paradigms and shift them to a place where there’s real change. We have been able to stand in our own power and say, We’re not going to be taken advantage of. We’re not just on the corners of life or on the outside of the stories. We are the stories.”
Lopez seems to have a clear idea of what she wants.
