The Love Bear Talks About Men With InStyle Magazine

Jennifer Lopez covers InStyle Magazine September 2012 with whom she doesn’t really address The Slum Bear because Instyle, unlike Vogue, has some standards (this isn’t ‘InSlum Magazine’). The 43-year-old, who forgot to flat iron a little closer to her roots, tells the magazine she likes ‘sweet’ ‘good guys’ who wait for her to get home so they can do their sex shopping together.

On how she gets through struggles: ‘I live by the mantra that God doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle. You realize that those difficult moments, the times when you feel pain, are when you do a lot of your growing. You realize: There’s no reason to be terrified of things. Either way I’m going to be OK. At this point in my life. I’ve learned I can really survive things.’
On why she’s still slumming: ‘The hard part is that you never stop believing in love. But that’s also the best part. You never stop believing, and you never, ever give up.’
On the pressure to be a good mother: ‘I feel the pressures of wanting to be a great parent and of wanting to do right by my children. Being a mom, or a dad, is the most important job there is. It doesn’t matter who you are. You have to embrace it for everything that it is.’
On how she makes her life work: ‘Finding balance … You have to know what makes you happy, so your life is what you always dreamed it could be.’
On men in general: ‘The most important quality the man in my life should have is that he is sweet. I like the good guys.’