Jennifer Lopez is navigating the single life after her separation from husband Ben Affleck. The 55-year-old icon recently spoke with Nikki Glaser for an Interview Magazine feature published on Wednesday, expressing her excitement about embracing her independence following her divorce from her fourth spouse. "Now I’m excited, when you say you’re just going to be on your own. Yes, I’m not looking for anybody, because everything that I’ve done over the past 25, 30 years, being in these different challenging situations, what can I f–king do when it’s just me flying on my own," she stated.
"What if I’m just free?" Lopez added. Discussing the future of her romantic life, the "Hustlers" actress noted that "there’s no new bar because I’m not looking for anybody." She further explained, "For people who are romantics and love being in relationships and want to grow old with somebody, we think, ‘I have to have that to be whole and happy.’ And you don’t."
Lopez also addressed the media frenzy surrounding her split from Affleck after two years of marriage. "I know that everything that’s being written and said about me, and all the conjecture of who I am as a person, is not who I am," she said. "I learned that a long time ago. And social media, because it came along after I had been in the public eye for a while, I don’t take it as seriously as everybody else."
She continued, "I know I’m a good person. I know I’m a good mom. I know who my friends are. I know my friends know who I am, my mom, my dad, all that stuff. If you hope to have a long career, you have to learn how to deal with that part of the business. Some people are going to love you and some are not going to understand you, and some people just want to hate you to hate you, and none of that really matters."
Lopez admitted that this "new territory" is "a little scary" for her. "It feels lonely, unfamiliar, scary. It feels sad. It feels desperate," she shared. "But when you sit in those feelings and go, ‘These things are not going to kill me,’ it’s like actually, I am capable of joy and happiness all by myself."
"Being in a relationship doesn’t define me. I can’t be looking for happiness in other people. I have to have happiness within myself. I used to say I’m a happy person, but was still looking for something for somebody else to fill, and it’s just like, ‘No, I’m actually good,'" she added.
