Jennifer Lopez Says That ‘Women Just Get Sexier as They Get Older’ – Billboard

Jennifer Lopez has a golden nugget of reality to share with an leisure enterprise without end centered on the brand new younger factor: getting older is attractive, too. Maybe even, sexier.

“As you get older and you have more experience, you become a richer human being and you have more to offer,” Lopez, 54, advised Elle journal. “The idea of, ‘There’s nothing really valuable about watching a woman over 30’ is so ridiculous, it’s the opposite of right. It just makes me laugh.”

In reality, Lopez stated, “People have realized that women just get sexier as they get older. They get more learned and more rich with character. All of that is very beautiful and attractive, and not just physically, but on the inside, the beauty that you gain as you get older, the wisdom you gain.”

Lopez is gearing as much as launch her long-awaited ninth studio album, This Is Me… Now (Feb. 16), her first full-length launch in almost a decade and a companion album of types to 2022’s This Is Me… Then. The multi-hyphenate star government produced the gathering with Rogét Chayed, Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman and HitBoy and she or he’ll pair it with the Dave Meyers-directed This Is Me… Now: The Film, which is able to air on Prime Video in greater than 240 nations.

It’s a full-court press of tasks from the star, who advised the journal that she sees herself working as lengthy as she needs to, no matter age. “I don’t know what that age is. It might be 70, it might be 80, it might be 90, I don’t know,” she stated. l”But I do know that it’s there for me if I need it and I wish to create it. That has all the time been the mindset that I’ve had: to by no means let anyone put me in a field due to the place I used to be born, the place I’m from, what age I’m, something like that. Those boundaries don’t exist for me.”

Lopez — whose Nuyorican Productions shingle has been behind movies such as Hustlers and The Mother — additionally defined why it’s essential for her to make tasks for and about girls. “You want to make great movies, at the end of the day. You want to make great television. And that should hit everybody. But at the same time, telling stories from a woman’s point of view does draw more of a [female] audience, or they relate to it more, or they get more fanatical about it and obsessed with it because they can feel that it’s not from the male gaze,” she stated.

“With all the great women producers, directors, and actors who are taking more control of their careers and creating their own material, we’re in a very exciting time for women in Hollywood,” she added. “We’re not just on the corners of life or on the outside of the stories. We are the stories.”

For that purpose, Lopez stated that one of many key classes she’s realized over time is that ladies need to take possession and may’t wait round for different folks handy them roles, whereas acknowledging that taking cost is essential to getting issues achieved. “A lot of actresses right now, they produce their own movies and develop their own material, and I think that’s key as well,” she stated.