--- title: Jennifer Lopez on Growing More Confident With Age description: Jennifer Lopez has been in the spotlight for a while now, so she's sharing her advice for young stars just entering the industry. canonical: https://time.com/4659480/jennifer-lopez-confidence-aging/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-03T20:12:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:39.805Z og:title: Jennifer Lopez: 'I Never Appreciated My Body or Looks in My 20s’ og:description: The pop icon opens up about aging in a new interview og:url: https://time.com/4659480/jennifer-lopez-confidence-aging/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf59196846aff9fae/6988b8c5656a3f08febcea7f/jennifer-lopez-advice-confident.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5089 og:image:height: 2863 og:image:alt: People's Choice Awards 2017 - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Lopez: 'I Never Appreciated My Body or Looks in My 20s’ twitter:description: The pop icon opens up about aging in a new interview twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf59196846aff9fae/6988b8c5656a3f08febcea7f/jennifer-lopez-advice-confident.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Lopez: 'I Never Appreciated My Body or Looks in My 20s’ > Sponsored content. 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Kevork Djansezian—Getty Images by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Feb 3, 2017 8:12 PM UTC [Singer](http://motto.time.com/4342955/jennifer-lopez-diva/), actress and entrepreneur [Jennifer Lopez](http://motto.time.com/4364795/jennifer-lopez-hollywood-norms/) has been in the spotlight for [a while now](http://motto.time.com/4556887/forbes-highest-paid-women-music/), so she’s sharing her advice for young stars just entering the industry. Specifically, how to overcome rumors and simply shake them off. “I remember going, ‘Oh, my God—they said this about me! What am I going to do? It’s not true!’” Lopez [told _W_ about reading tabloid](http://www.wmagazine.com/story/jennifer-lopez-women-get-more-confident-as-they-get-older) reports about herself when she first started out in Hollywood. “Then I realized: Nobody cares. In the Bronx, nobody cares. Being happy as a person, being a good mom, doing good work—that’s fulfilling to me.” She thinks that insecurities naturally shed with age for women: “Men in their 20s are very confident and cocky, and women are super-insecure. And then it flips: Men get super-insecure, and women get comfortable in their own skin, in a way that makes them more beautiful,” Lopez told _W. “_I never appreciated my body or my looks when I was in my 20s. Now I’m like, Look at me! Look at you! Not in a conceited or arrogant way — I just appreciate myself in a way I didn’t when I was that age. And it’s not about perfection. I like the scars that I have.” Read the full interview at [Wmagazine.com](http://www.wmagazine.com/story/jennifer-lopez-women-get-more-confident-as-they-get-older) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4659480/jennifer-lopez-confidence-aging/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4659480/jennifer-lopez-confidence-aging/"},"headline":"Jennifer Lopez: 'I Never Appreciated My Body or Looks in My 20s’","datePublished":"2017-02-03T20:12:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:39.805Z","description":"The pop icon opens up about aging in a new interview","url":"https://time.com/4659480/jennifer-lopez-confidence-aging/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf59196846aff9fae/6988b8c5656a3f08febcea7f/jennifer-lopez-advice-confident.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf59196846aff9fae/6988b8c5656a3f08febcea7f/jennifer-lopez-advice-confident.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"People's Choice Awards 2017 - Press Room","caption":"Actress/recording artist Jennifer Lopez, winner of Favorite TV Crime Drama Actress award for \"Shades of Blue\" poses in the press room at the People's Choice Awards 2017 at Microsoft Theater on January 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.","creditText":"Kevork Djansezian—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4659480/jennifer-lopez-confidence-aging/","name":"Jennifer Lopez: 'I Never Appreciated My Body or Looks in My 20s’"}}]}] ```