Jennifer Lopez shared the love with her fans after the release of her new album and film This is Me… Now.
The gorgeous star, 54 – who recently opened up about calling off her first wedding to Ben Affleck – took to Instagram to post an adorable video, expressing gratitude to her followers for supporting her latest endeavors.
‘I just had to come on and say how much I love you guys and thank you,’ she began. ‘The day is finally here, I know you waited a long time.’
Before signing off, she added: ‘We’re going on tour, we’re doing this thing, it’s gonna be all summer, all of us, together.’
The clip comes after Jennifer teased that the This is Me… Now Tour, a 34-date string of North American arena concerts set for this summer, could be her ‘one last hurrah’.
Jennifer Lopez shared the love with her fans after the release of her new album and film This is Me… Now
The gorgeous star, 54, took to Instagram to post an adorable video, expressing gratitude to her followers for supporting her latest endeavors.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the songstress talked about what to expect in the tour, which kicks off June 26 at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida.
The actress stated that her goal when performing has always been to provide her fans with an exciting and electrifying show.
‘That’s my goal when people come to my show,’ she said. ‘I always want people to leave and be like, “That’s the best show I ever saw!” One last hurrah!’
Regarding her albums, she mentioned that she wasn’t contemplating creating a ‘Now’ when she recorded and released ‘Then’.
Looking back, though, she expressed a sense of destiny, describing it as ‘meant to be,’ as both albums are dedicated to her husband, Ben.
‘Sometimes you have these moments in life where you feel like, “Oh, this was meant to be somehow”,’ she said. ‘And I didn’t know that when it was happening then — when I decided to call it This Is Me… Then.’
‘I didn’t even realize it was capturing a moment in time where I fell in love for the first time in that way and wrote this whole album,’ she continued.
‘And it was very that thing, and I was like, “Oh, I’ll call it This Is Me… Then.” And then, you know, as fate would have it — 20 years later — here we are,’ she said, referring to her romantic reunion with Affleck.
‘I just had to come on and say how much I love you guys and thank you,’ she began. ‘The day is finally here, I know you waited a long time’
Her album — which will have six different sultry covers for her records — and musical movie debuted on Friday. She said she decided to make her new record —her ninth studio album and her first solo release in 10 years — because she was ‘inspired’ like she was before
Lopez also revealed that when she made her 2002 album This Is Me… Then album, she did not anticipate that she would be making a follow-up record over a decade later
She mentioned that the decision to create her new record, marking her ninth studio album and her initial solo release in a decade, stemmed from feeling ‘inspired,’ much like she had been in the past.
Meanwhile, JLo offered insights into the conclusion of her relationship with Ben in 2003.
The Hustlers star recently participated in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, discussing the decision to call off their first wedding in September 2003 and revealing that the breakup did not happen immediately.
‘We didn’t break up right at that moment, it happened over the series of the next few months,’ Jlo explained, adding that they actually split in January 2004.
‘Because what it did was it casted doubt in me, and both of us, about what our relationship was and where it was going, I think,’ she added.
The stars reunited and tied the knot in 2022.
‘I knew in my heart that I wanted to be with him for the rest of my life, I knew that. But it didn’t feel like we were going to make it,’ the Wedding Planner actress said.
‘And so, it scared me,’ she added.
The movie is part of a three-way project about her famous search for love and how she ultimately found it with her husband
The awaited movie was released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, February 16
Jennifer offered insights into the conclusion of her relationship with Ben Affleck in 2003; pictured in 2023
Even though she wasn’t prepared to marry Affleck at that time and ended their relationship in January 2004, later that year, she married the singer Marc Anthony, 55, and welcomed twins Emme and Max, aged 15, in February 2008.
In the meantime, the star of “The Air” married Jennifer Garner, 51, in 2005 and together they had three children – Violet Anne, 18, Seraphina Rose, 15, and Samuel, 11.
Lopez separated from Anthony in 2011 and subsequently became engaged to baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez, 48, in 2019.
The star of Maid in Manhattan has been engaged six times and married four times.
