Jennifer Lopez is recounting her road to superstardom in the new issue of W Magazine, saying she and her mother did not see eye-to-eye about starting a career in show business and as a result, she was “homeless” at age 18.
Lopez moved out of her Bronx apartment once she was legal and pursued a career as a dancer. Her mother had different dreams for her, wanting her to go to college.
Lopez, 43, told the August issue of W, "My mom and I butted heads. I didn't want to go to college - I wanted to try dance full-time. I was homeless,” she said, adding she would sleep on a cot in her dance studio. “But I told her 'This is what I have to do.'"
In only a year’s time she landed a spot as a Fly Girl on In Living Color, and she has since built an empire after making it big in both movies and music.
She said she doesn’t want her twins, Max and Emme, to go through what she did but she is aware of setting a good example for them.
“My dad worked nights, and I was aware of how much he was doing for us. My mom was a Tupperware lady and also worked at the school,” she tells W. “ I always felt that I couldn’t let them down,” she said, NY Daily News reports. “I love Los Angeles, but it doesn’t give me strength the way the Bronx did. All the strength that I needed for life, I got from that neighborhood.”
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