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Compared to her ex-boyfriends, Jennifer Lopez says dating Alex Rodriguez is a breeze.
In the December issue of InStyle (on newsstands Nov. 9), the 49-year-old Second Act actress ruminates on how to date in Hollywood has changed since the dawn of social media. Take, for example, Lopez's high-profile relationship with Ben Affleck, which ended in 2004. The extensive media coverage of their romance was intense, but the trainer made a couple of years ago by doing joint interviews and lambasting the media in her "Jenny From the Block" video.
"Jennifer and Ben were asking for it with that video," says Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, who runs Lopez's company, Nuyorican Productions, and also wrote Second Act. "I told her, 'I'm selling you as a maid[inthemovie[inthefilmMaid in Manhattan]Are you driving around in Bentleys? "" Aim, Goldsmith-Thomas points out, "It's 16 years later. I'm sure Ben Affleck is more mature, too. "
Lopez admits dating was "actually worse" back then. "It was just crazy." "I'm a little bit crazy." Back then you just thought anything about a tabloid, "she tells the magazine. "Many times it was not true, or it was like a third of the truth."
While today's stars have to deal with social media, they "did not live in the tabloid era," she adds. "Now I'm like my mom: 'I used to walk uphill to school, before there were cars!'"
Lopez argues social media is one reason she and Rodriguez have not been tabloid targets. "Now people get to see this guy they thought this hard-nosed athlete is, like, a goofy dad who loves his kids and celebrates his girlfriend," she says. Lopez also noticed a shift in how she's perceived after she became an American Idol judge in 2010. "That was actually in the moment, not edited, so finally got to see that I was actually a person, someone with a heart. that changed everything. "
Make no mistake: the entertainer is not complaining.
Life with Rodriguez is just easier, Lopez says. "When we do, we're both already doing a lot of work on ourselves." "Everybody has flaws, and the people I want in my life are the people who recognize and are willing to work on those flaws," she says. "It's super-important: someone who's willing to look at themselves and say, 'OK, I'm not great here' or 'I could do better there.'"
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