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\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tJennifer Lopez\u2019s This is Me \u2026 Now press tour also served as a fashion show. While promoting her ninth studio album and its accompanying movie \u2014 both inspired by her romance with husband Ben Affleck \u2014 Lopez blessed Us with look after look.\u00a0 At the film\u2019s premiere on Tuesday, February 13, in Los Angeles, Lopez [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She confessed that completing both the album and film was a real labor of love for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project took so much out of me,\u201d Lopez told Fallon, 49. \u201cYou know, you are so obsessed with something and you can\u2019t stop, it\u2019s just like every detail and everything. It\u2019s just draining, and you\u2019re like, \u2018This is it. This is my last hurrah. I\u2019m done!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
While the star hasn\u2019t said she\u2019s officially retiring from music, this is her first album in a decade, and she says it surprisingly ended up being a sequel in a way to her third studio album, This Is Me \u2026 Then<\/em>. The musician, however, said she had no idea back then that she\u2019d end up having another album that would make things full circle.<\/p>\n\n![\"J](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/J-Lo-Shares-Why-Her-Latest-Album-Is-Really-Ready-for-the-Stage-Ahead-of-Tour.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Jon Kopaloff\/WireImage,)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t even realize, like, it was capturing a moment in time, you know, where I kind of, like, fell in love for the first time in that way and, like, wrote this whole album and it\u2019s very that thing,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019ll call it This Is Me \u2026 Then<\/em>.\u2019 And then, you know, as fate would have it, 20 years later, here we are and I\u2019m like \u2014 I felt inspired in the same way that I did when I made that first record and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to make This Is Me \u2026 Now<\/em>.\u2019 I hadn\u2019t made an album like that in 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\nLopez and Affleck, 51, famously met on the set of Gigli<\/em> in early 2002. By the end of that year, he had popped the question. The couple were set to walk down the aisle in September 2003, but they ended up canceling the wedding at the last minute due to \u201cexcessive media attention.\u201d At the start of 2004, the two announced their breakup.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\u201cI didn\u2019t even realize, like, it was capturing a moment in time, you know, where I kind of, like, fell in love for the first time in that way and, like, wrote this whole album and it\u2019s very that thing,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019ll call it This Is Me \u2026 Then<\/em>.\u2019 And then, you know, as fate would have it, 20 years later, here we are and I\u2019m like \u2014 I felt inspired in the same way that I did when I made that first record and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to make This Is Me \u2026 Now<\/em>.\u2019 I hadn\u2019t made an album like that in 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n Lopez and Affleck, 51, famously met on the set of Gigli<\/em> in early 2002. By the end of that year, he had popped the question. The couple were set to walk down the aisle in September 2003, but they ended up canceling the wedding at the last minute due to \u201cexcessive media attention.\u201d At the start of 2004, the two announced their breakup.<\/p>\n You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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