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Jennifer Lopez was born and grew up in the South Bronx, New York to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez, a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez, a computer specialist.[4] She has two siblings, Lynda and Leslie. Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at the all-girls Preston High School, in the Bronx. She financed singing and dancing lessons for herself from the age of 19. After attending Baruch College for one semester, Lopez divided her time between working in a legal office, dance classes, and dance performances in Manhattan night clubs.[5] She had a bit part in the 1987 film My Little Girl. After months of auditioning for dance roles, Lopez was selected as a dancer for various rap music videos, a 1990 episode of Yo! MTV Raps, and as a backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block and their performance of their song "Games" for the American Music Awards in 1991. After being rejected twice, she gained her first regular high-profile job as a "Fly Girl" dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. Soon after, Lopez became a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and made an appearance in her 1993 video "That's the Way Love Goes".




Jennifer's appearance at the Grammy?s in her infamous down-to-there Versace dress, and at the Oscars in a braless, shockingly see-through Grecian gown and mink-fur false eyelashes, ensured that this fashionista would remain in the public eye between her subsequent albums--2001's J.Lo, 2002's remix collection J To Tha L-O!, and her most recent effort, This Is Me...Then. Her quickie wedding to dancer Cris Judd (the marriage, which lasted less than a year, was even shorter than her first marriage) and engagement to actor Ben Affleck soon after (before her divorce from Judd was even finalized) also ensured that she'd remain in the gossip columns.

Lopez has continued her movie career with varying degrees of success, in such films as The Wedding Planner (which was the number one film in the U.S. the same week that her album J.Lo held the top spot on the Billboard Top 200), Angel Eyes, Enough, The Cell, and her latest Pretty Woman-style romantic comedy, Maid In Manhattan. In her next film, Jersey Girl, she'll co-star with the man soon to be her third husband, Ben Affleck. On top of all this, she's also launched her own clothing line, perfume (Glow), and L.A. restaurant (Madre's). Suffice it to say, Lopez's continued success seems all but guaranteed.