J.Lo graces the cover of Allure’s 30th Anniversary Issue, discussing everything from BLM protests to her Oscars snub

Jennifer Lopez is the queen of all things in the entertainment industry. She can act, sing, dance, just launched her skincare line, and even has her own production company. The easier question: is there anything J.Lo can’t do (other than start a "Love Don't Cost A Thing TikTok" challenge)? We’ll wait…

J.Lo graced the cover of Allure’s 30th Anniversary Issue, debuting a pixie cut, and the cover said her name is just three letters, “one for each decade of her superstardom.” The truth has never been more clear.

During her interview for Allure’s March issue, Lopez touched on everything from Black Lives Matter protests, beauty standards in the entertainment industry, her wedding plans being put on hold and even that Oscars snub for her role in Hustlers.

With all her accomplishments, it’s hard to think of what J.Lo could be up to next, but she admitted to the magazine that she knows she is an overachiever. “Since I was little, I was an overachiever,” she said. “All you had to do was tell me what to do. I took direction really well and then I crushed it. That was my personality.”

When J.Lo first entered the entertainment industry, she said that the beauty standards were much different from today’s. “When I came on the scene, it was kind of the time of the waif and everybody had to be stick thin,” she explained. “It was like, ‘Well, you’re not. How do you feel?’ I’m like, ‘I feel great about it!’” Lopez said that she feels like it’s “different now” and it will be better for her children’s generation. “But our generation is still dealing with the scars,” she added.

Last June, Lopez and her fiancé Alex Rodriguez marched with millions of other people supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. “The whole thing that was happening with police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, Latinos at the border — you feel like you had to contribute," she said. 

J.Lo said that her 12-year-old son came up to her and let her know that a lot of his YouTube idols were very influencial, and said he knew his mom could influence many people too. “He probably heard me complaining about what was happening in the world. I said, ‘I want you guys to make me the signs because Mommy wants to get out there too.’” 

The 51-year-old singer admitted that she had anxiety joining the protest because she’s “not used to being in big crowds like that” because she’s always on stage or going through the back door with security. “It was scary. I got a little anxiety, like, ‘How do you get out of the crowd?’” she said. “Once I got [into it], to be in the masses like that, I loved it. Like, ‘Wow, there’s a movement happening.’ So many people, different ages, races — it was a beautiful thing.”

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If we want to see change in the world, Lopez suggests that "we have to get involved," and "we have to make change." She continued, "That was why 2020, as difficult and scary as it was, was so necessary. What we realized is that we’re all in this together. This is about our kids growing up in a world where they feel comfortable, where things are equal, and there’s more kindness and love than hate and division.”

Lopez says that “If you work hard, you can accomplish something. You can win the medal,” but that wasn’t the case when it came to all the hard work she put in to her role as Ramona in Hustlers. But it’s all OK because Lopez said, “I don’t do this to have 10 Oscars sitting on my mantel or 20 Grammys.” Did the sun move behind the clouds because all we see is shade.

J.Lo said that she was talking to her production partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, who recently made a post about all the things that the “Let’s Get Loud” singer has been nominated for or won during the post-Hustlers awards season. “And when it came to the Oscars, it was so obviously absent. It was a sting. I was like, ‘OK, when you’re supposedly in everybody else’s mind supposed to be nominated, and you’re not, what does that mean? Is it really real? Are the other ones real and this one isn’t?’ It came to a point where I was like, ‘This is not why I do this.'"

“...The point is creating and the joy that I get from the things I get to put out in the world that entertain and inspire and empower people,” Lopez said. “I think my life is about more than awards.”

One thing that Lopez had to put on hold once the coronavirus pandemic began was her wedding to ARod. “We had been planning for months and months and months, and it was overseas,” she revealed. She now thinks that “maybe that wasn’t the right time,” and she said that everything has “its kind of perfect, divine moment.” We are here for the positive thinking!

Regardless of us all having to wait to see J.Lo's fab wedding outfits, fans took to Twitter to obsess over the singer’s new short hairstyle after the Allure cover was unveiled.

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