Jennifer Lopez Reveals The Mind-Blowing Question Barbra Streisand Asked Her When They Met: ‘It Was a Surreal Moment’

Jennifer Lopez has been a superstar for much than 3 decades. But during a chat with Howard Stern connected his SiriusXM amusement connected Wednesday greeting (Oct. 15), the multi-hyphenate planetary icon admitted that she was dumbstruck erstwhile she met different does-it-all A-lister who asked her what it’s similar to beryllium truthful famous.

After gushing astir her emotion of Cher — who she has ne'er formally met — Lopez noted that she did, however, erstwhile conscionable different 1 of her eventual heroes, movie, music, signifier prima and manager Barbra Streisand, who blew her mind, but not of the reasons you’d typically expect.

“I met her twentysomething years agone erstwhile I was with Ben and I had the pinkish diamond ring,” she said of the opulent $2.5 million, 6-plus carat ringing Affleck got for her erstwhile they archetypal got engaged successful 2002. “And she was fascinated with the diamond ring, truthful she talked to me. She was like, ‘can I spot your ring?,'” Lopez recalled of the bling-loving legend.

“And past she said thing astir being famous,” Lopez recalled, forgetting the nonstop wording, but remembering that it struck her coming from 1 of the arguably astir celebrated performers ever and, not for nothing, her mom’s favourite star. “I retrieve she asked about, ‘how bash you bash it… the fame?’ And I deliberation to myself, ‘Is Barbra Streisand asking maine however bash I woody with the fame?’ It was a surreal infinitesimal and I don’t cognize what I said. Something stupid, probably, due to the fact that I was dumbstruck and starstruck astatine the aforesaid time.”

In the wide-ranging interview, Lopez’s archetypal sojourn to Stern’s show, the brace besides touched connected however Lopez was truthful heavy impacted by her parent’s divorce, including a touching communicative astir the galore years she spent sharing a country with her 2 older sisters and however the trio would walk the nighttime earlier their parent’s day staying up each nighttime to make a caller banner honoring their marriage.

Stern, who successful the past was captious of Lopez — especially during her tally connected American Idol — was precise complimentary of the singer/dancer/actress, admitting that helium was disquieted that helium wouldn’t emotion her caller movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman, due to the fact that he’s famously not a philharmonic theatre fan.’

“I deliberation you volition beryllium nominated for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Stern said confidently, asking Lopez if she got the chills erstwhile helium made his forecast. “It would beryllium large and if it didn’t hap it’s wholly good too” laughed Lopez, who, to date, has earned a Golden Globe information for her breakthrough relation successful 1997’s biopic Selena, but has ne'er won a Grammy, oregon been nominated for an Oscar contempt an extensive, 35-plus movie resume.

The 2 besides touched connected Lopez’s emotion life, and however she’s present focused connected being much backstage than she has been successful the past.

After her 2nd go-round with Ben Affleck flamed retired past year pursuing a 2nd whirlwind romance and a wedding, Lopez — who said she has ever “lived my beingness retired loud” successful her erstwhile relationships — vowed that going guardant she plans to beryllium much backstage astir her idiosyncratic life. “I deliberation I’ve made mistakes,” she said astir surviving her beingness successful the nationalist eye. “I wanted to stock my beingness with someone. I privation idiosyncratic to beryllium determination erstwhile I’m having my large important infinitesimal connected the reddish carpet. I privation idiosyncratic to beryllium determination erstwhile I’m doing… immoderate it is I wanted to stock that. So I didn’t fell from it and I spoke astir it.”

But fixed the aggravated scrutiny she, and her children, were nether during Bennifer 2.0, Lopez said aft the past fewer years she, “wants to support that portion truthful overmuch much quiescent successful my life… [I’ve learned] you person to alteration your behaviour if you privation to person a palmy narration successful your life.”

While she didn’t sanction names, Lopez besides sheepishly admitted that earlier her caller stance keeping things much low-key, determination was a clip astir a decennary agone erstwhile she “threw it retired there” to a salient feline she was funny successful and helium wholly blew her off. “I conscionable benignant of moved connected and thought, ‘okay, not for me,'” she laughed, instantly regretting adjacent answering the benignant of probing, titillating question Stern is adept at.

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