Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Being a Proud Latina

Jennifer Lopez is opening up about being a proud Latina.

In an unique clip shared with PEOPLE forward of Tuesday’s installment of At this time, Lopez, 53, speaks with NBC Information’ Morgan Radford about embracing her tradition and physique, stating, “That is my physique.”

Radford notes that Lopez refused to let others “pigeonhole” her into being something aside from her true self.

“It is simply who I used to be,” Lopez says, including that when she was youthful, her dad and mom inspired her to “be happy with who I used to be.”

“And so after I went into these worlds, like Hollywood, the place we weren’t represented in any respect, I virtually felt like a unicorn. ‘I am Latina. I am Jennifer Lopez from the Bronx. And my dad and mom are Puerto Rican, I am Puerto Rican.’ And I believe it made me really feel particular.”

Lopez additionally recollects loving her physique regardless of not seeing many different girls who regarded like her.

“Even the entire physique factor was such a factor. It was like, everyone was like dimension zero fashions, tall, blonde — lovely, a sure kind of magnificence — however there was different kinds of magnificence that I grew up with.”

In July, Lopez confirmed off her physique by celebrating her 53rd birthday with a unadorned picture shoot. The second additionally commemorated the launch of JLo Physique by JLo Magnificence.

On the time, the Marry Me actress advised PEOPLE, ” ‘Magnificence has no expiration date’ was all the time my private mantra as a result of I am in a enterprise the place youth is glorified and other people attempt to write, particularly girls, off at a sure time.”

She added, “It is like, ‘Oh, you are accomplished no extra films for you. We do not need your music anymore.’ Rising up, I regarded as much as individuals like Diana Ross and Cher and Tina Turner, and so they have been of their 50s and so they have been lovely and virtually coming into their very own at the moment.”

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Somebody who thinks she appears to be like good then and now could be her husband Ben Affleck, 50. “He’s like, ‘I such as you when you don’t have anything on. No hair on, no make-up on, simply you in your personal pores and skin,” she stated.

“He actually appreciates that. And that makes me really feel actually assured and delightful. Somebody can see the essence of who you might be and simply the pores and skin that you simply’re in and that I deal with that and that he appreciates that. That makes me really feel actually lovely too.”

See extra of Lopez’s interview on Tuesday’s episode of At this time.