Eight fascinating facts you never knew about Jennifer Lopez

JENNIFER Lopez is about to release her first memoir, titled True Love. Here are eight little-known facts about the diva, delivered in her own words.

OKAY, so we know she’s real, we know she’s still Jenny from the block and we know her love don’t cost a thing. But we can still learn a thing (or eight) about Jennifer Lopez from newly released book, True Love.

Here are 8 surprising facts about J. Lo, as revealed in her memoir:

LOS ANGELES, CA - FILE: Actress Jennifer Lopez and singer Marc Anthony arrive at The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 13, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Marc Anthony has filed for divorce from Jennifer Lopez in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing |irreconcilable differences|. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

1. Lopez writes that the first thing Marc Anthony ever said to her was, “One day you’re going to be my wife.” That was back in 1998, backstage when he was performing on Broadway in The Capeman. Anthony’s vision came true six years later, when the two tied the knot in 2004 before splitting in 2011.

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2. Speaking of predicting the future, she visited a psychic in Toronto while filming Angel Eyes and he cried during his reading with her.

“‘I’m telling you,’ he said. ‘Going on tour will change your life. It will change everything about you.’ I looked at him and was shocked to see that he had tears in his eyes. It was so intense, so unexpected, so weird.”

3. Lopez got booed while performing at Boston’s TD Garden Arena on her Dance Again tour. The reason? One of her many costume changes included a sparkly New York Yankees hat — “Diehard Red Sox fans,” she wrote. “What are you gonna do?”

Movie director Steven Spielberg seen during the 'Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief' concert in New York, 22/01/2010 where hundreds of celebrities donated their time for the star-studded aid telethon for victims of Haitian disaster.

4. Turns out, Steven Spielberg is a huge American Idol fan. Lopez writes that, during her first season as judge on the singing competition, the famed director approached her at an Oscars party to tell her how much he and his family love the show.

5. According to her calculations, she has more than 60 songs about love or with the word “love” in the title. As Lopez noted:

“If You Had My Love, Could This Be Love, No Me Ames, Love Don’t Cost A Thing, I Need Love, I, Love, Baby I Love U!, Loving You, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.”

6. Her mum once shot the paparazzi with a water pistol. During some downtime before a performance in Paris, Lopez, her mum, and her two children were enjoying a day at a park when Lopez felt the photographers were getting too close. After grabbing one of the children’s toy water pistols, Lopez’s mother proceeded to spray the paparazzi with water, effectively chasing them away.

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7.Lopez writes that she watched Something’s Gotta Give 10 times to help her get through her divorce with Marc Anthony. “Thank God for Nancy Meyers [the film’s writer and director], because that vision helped me get through some really tough nights.”

8. Lopez completed a triathlon on a whim in 2008. “Now, understand, I had never done a triathlon before,” she wrote. “I had run a 10k when I was 12, but never anything close to a triathlon. On the morning of the race, as I was standing there surrounded by a thousand paparazzi, about to jump into the ocean, I realised that this probably wasn’t the best idea I ever had.”

Actress Jennifer Lopez begins the bicycling portion of the 2008 Nautica Malibu Triathlon in Malibu, Calif. on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

(Don’t worry, guys: she ended up finishing the half-mile swim, 18-mile bike ride and 4-mile run in an impressive time of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 28 seconds.)

This article is republished with permission from the Huffington Post.