Jennifer Lopez Body Shamed? Singer Reveals How Hollywood Pressured Her To Lose Curves

It is hard to believe that anyone would describe Jennifer Lopez as anything but fierce, but according to a response the singer gave during an Emmy For Your Consideration Event in Los Angeles on Thursday, no one is safe from body-shaming in Hollywood.

“They kept telling me to lose weight,” Lopez recalled. “And I was a dancer and I was athletic and even my manager at the time, who I no longer work with, um, was telling me, ‘You need to lose weight. You need to be thinner.’”

She continued, “I was like, ‘No I don’t. If I lose any more weight it won’t be me.’ You know what I mean?”

The 46-year-old singer decided to share her story after a fan revealed that the “Shades of Blue” star’s curvy figure inspired her to stop wearing clothing items around her waist to hide her body shape.

“It was definitely a fight, and so it’s good to hear that it helped anybody in some way,” the mother-of-two said. “At the end of the day I was just trying to be myself without trying to fit into a mold of what everybody else should be.”

The sexy Boricua proceeded to express her feelings about the industry’s openness nowadays, and how it is great that curvy women continue to be included in ad campaigns, magazines and media in general.

“It’s a different time now you know, which is awesome for to see for where it is about our differences. It’s about all the diversity,” she mentioned. “It’s just a more accepting time of everything whether it’s body type or race or gender. We’ve come a long way.”

However, the “Ain’t Your Mama” performer recently confessed it is not easy to keep her bootylicious body in shape.

“I work out in the morning,” she told E! News host Maria Menounos. “It’s a pshysically demanding show [“All I Have”]. Just like a basketball player, think of it like a basketball player, they do a morning practice and then at night they have the game.”