Jennifer Lopez has been a big deal for a long time. Despite having decades of success in acting and music, she is fit and looks amazing for her age. And J.Lo had the perfect reaction to an interviewer recently saying she’s “getting up there in age.”
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In the early ’90s, Jen made her TV debut as a Fly Girl on In Living Color. She snagged her first big movie role in 1995 in My Family before catapulting to fame as Selena Quintanilla in the 1997 biopic Selena. J.Lo’s acting and music careers took off from thereâand she turned 55 in 2024.
Recently, J.Lo spoke to Variety about her 30-year career.
On December 15, Jennifer spoke with Variety‘s Clayton Davis about her 30-plus years in the entertainment industry. A video obtained by TMZ showed the pair sitting on stage and talking about her long-running career. That’s when Clayton marveled at the longevity of her creative work.
The interviewer noted Jen was 'getting up there in age.'
âListen, I canât believe itâs been 30 years since Selena,” Clayton said at one point during the Variety interview. “I canât believe that 30 years we do the retrospective of this and you will be 60 by then.”
After Jennifer replied, “Wow,” Clayton noted, “Which is getting up there.”
Jen then simply acknowledged, “I am.”
The audience mostly laughed in response to Clayton’s comment. However, one spectator in the TMZ video asked, âDid he really just say that?â
Jennifer Lopez's reaction to the age jab was perfect.
Although Clayton praised J.Lo for “one of your best performances” in her new film Unstoppable, she brought the topic back to her age.
âItâs funny you think that Iâm getting up there,â Jen said, to which he said it was a “joke.”
Jennifer then addressed the audience.
âItâs because I want to say thank you, you guys. Because weâve been doing this a long time together. Been doing it a long time and you guys have been here with me,â Jen said. âToday, I was singing some new songs and I went back and sang âIf You Had My Love,â which is my first song, 1999. Itâs that thing, of like, what a journey this has been.â
Additionally, she promised 'the best was yet to come.'
âI honestly feel that the best is yet to come,â Jennifer added. âI honestly feel that my creativity and who I am as an artistâlike you said, I also feel that this for me, was another kind of level for me of going deeper into who I am as a person, as an artist.â
She added, âAnd if you can kind of let yourself be vulnerable enough and real enough to show you flaws and to really expose yourself in a way, as an artist, that is a gift that you always want. âYou want to have that.â
J.Lo previously addressed agingâand her lack thereof.
In 2018, Jennifer spoke with Emmy Magazine about fans thinking she looks young for her age.
âListen, at some point, Iâm going to age,â she joked, per Closer Weekly. âTheyâll say, she looks old! But, right now, Iâm holding it together.â
However, she admitted her day would one day come.
At the time of the Emmy Magazine interview, Jennifer was dating Alex Rodriguez. She shared an anecdote about an observation he made about her.
âThe other day, Alex was across the lawn, and I brought him something, and then I ran away. And he said, âYou run like youâre 25 years old,’â she recounted. âI havenât stopped that pace, so Iâm still at that pace, I guess. When things start aching more, itâll be different.â
