The incredible rise of Jennifer Lopez: her 7 biggest career moments
Ahead of J-Lo’s upcoming new film This Is Me…. Now – a surreal-sounding project that takes viewers through the megastar’s “journey to find love”, here’s a look back at how Jenny from the Block became one of the biggest pop stars on the planet.
Crashing on studio floors
Long before the starring roles and smash singles, got her start as a dancer. Initially, she crammed in night classes in and tapped around a business degree and a secretarial job at a legal firm, but she dropped out to go and enroll at New York’s Phil Black Dance Studio instead. Her parents deeply disapproved of her choice to sack off business school and asked Lopez to move out of their house in the Bronx; for her first few months in Manhattan she crashed on the floor of the studio office. Eight months later, Lopez extended an olive branch to her mum by buying her tickets to see Barry
