--- title: Even Jennifer Lopez Has Low Self-Esteem description: But the singer also said she knew she could be "an awesome mom and sexy woman." canonical: https://time.com/3557269/jennifer-lopez-true-love-and-self-esteem/ author: Kristina Dell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-04T22:31:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:15.241Z og:title: Even Jennifer Lopez Has Low Self-Esteem og:description: But the singer also said she knew she could be "an awesome mom and sexy woman." og:url: https://time.com/3557269/jennifer-lopez-true-love-and-self-esteem/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc573939095e093b/69876429e20a872281a82d37/jennifer-lopez.jpg?branch=production&width=948&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 948 og:image:height: 533 og:image:alt: 2014 LACMA Art + Film Gala Honoring Quentin Tarantino And Barbara Kruger og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Even Jennifer Lopez Has Low Self-Esteem twitter:description: But the singer also said she knew she could be "an awesome mom and sexy woman." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc573939095e093b/69876429e20a872281a82d37/jennifer-lopez.jpg?branch=production&width=948&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Even Jennifer Lopez Has Low Self-Esteem > Sponsored content. 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Jennifer Lopez arrives at the 2014 LACMA Art + Film Gala on November 1, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Jon Kopaloff—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Kristina Dell](https://time.com/author/kristina-dell/) ## Kristina Dell Nov 4, 2014 10:31 PM UTC To most outsiders it looks like Jennifer Lopez has everything; she became a judge on the hit show _American Idol_ in 2010, _People_ Magazine named her the World’s Most Beautiful Woman in 2011, she’s had countless chart-topping songs and videos—and there’s that enviable derriere. Her newest video “Booty,” showcases the 45-year-old star shaking that barely-clad behind next to 20-year-old Iggy Azalea, and looking just as good if not better. Yet, despite all the accolades, in her new book, _True Love_, out today, Lopez talks about suffering from low self-esteem. To which most of us mortals reply: Huh?! Why?! In an interview with Maria Shriver on the _Today_ Show, Lopez describes how her confidence dipped the more famous she became: “It was so funny, ‘cause when you first come on the scene, you feel so indestructible, you’re like, ‘Oh I can do this, I can’t wait to see what everybody sees what I can do!’ And then you become a big enough star where they start tryin’ to tear you down a bit…You become a target. And you start being really harsh and judgmental on yourself…it can be, you know, damaging.” Ironically enough, it was during Lopez’s stint as a judge on _American Idol_ that she began to feel better about herself. “It was the first time I had no lines, I had no song to sing, I had no performance,” she says to Shriver. “It was just, ‘Jen, just be you, tell us how you feel, what do you think.’ And people saw that and they liked it, and that touched me, ‘cause I’d spent so much time thinking they didn’t like me.” Lopez wanted to do the “Booty” video next to a much younger woman in part to prove a point. “It makes me crazy that people try to put women in a box, or try to say, if you’re a mom, you can’t do this, or if you’re sexy, then you’re not smart. Yes, I can be an awesome mom, and I can be a sexy woman and I can be a smart businessperson. I can do all of it. 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