It’s Jennifer Lopez’s Job To Be Beautiful…

The singer and American Idol judge, selected for the ironic value alone, covers this week’s People. Jennifer Lopez is on the cover because she’s ‘The World’s Most Beautiful Woman.’ I’m not going to say someone with that face isn’t beautiful. Because she was, at least, about five years ago, breathtaking. However, there are so many ingenues who’d have made a better cover. And I just get sick of seeing the same celebrities revolving on these covers. In her interview, Lopez gives quotes that sound like something Gwyneth Paltrow would say… like, it’s her job to be beautiful. That’s such a GOOPY thing to say, right?

On preferring to be make-up free when mothering/ at home: ‘That’s when I’m my happiest,’ she says in this week’s exclusive cover story. ‘Just being able to touch my face and rub my eyes and put my fingers in my hair and not having to worry about messing it up. It’s so much better.’
On beauty being her job: ‘The thing is, it’s part of my job,’ says the singer, who ran a triathlon six months after she gave birth. ‘I don’t want anybody thinking it’s easy. It does take time and it’s hard work. HDTV wide-screen is nobody’s friend.’
On her daughter being girly: ‘She is very girly-girl, just like me since I was very little. She loves for me to paint her nails,’ Lopez says. ‘She lays out her clothes on the floor like I do with my stylist.’
On painting her son’s nails: ‘He wants to paint his nails too. Because for him, it’s just paint. He’s like… I want the blue,’ Lopez says, laughing. ‘Then Marc [Anthony] is like, ‘Why are Max’s nails painted?!’ But he won’t sit still so it’s only like two nails.’
On being called a diva: ‘I kind of like it. We’ve kind of owned it now. But I certainly don’t like and I’ve never been a person who has what they call ‘diva behavior,’ which is something they tried to pin on me for a long time.’