Speaking to Arianna Huffington during a HuffPost Live interview about her new book, True Love, JLo revealed the highs and lows of 2011 when she announced her separation to Marc.
The superstar had a killer year professionally with her debut appearance on American Idol and the release of her platinum album, Love, but Jennifer said that her personal life was “falling apart”.
“Everything from the outside seemed perfect, but the truth was, in that moment, my marriage was falling apart and … I was terrified that that realization was occurring to me,” she said.
“Like, ‘This is not working. I’m not happy. This is not good. What do I do? I have these two small children.’ It was so tormenting and anybody who’s gone through it knows that. And then going through it in the public eye just adds that little bit of extra ouch.”
In her book, JLo acknowledged that “every marriage has its challenges”, but from the beginning her and Marc’s relationship was “tumultuous, passionate, and explosive”.
“In my family, when I was growing up, divorce was not an option. So when I married Marc, having already been through the disappointment of two divorces and a broken engagement, I wanted so much for our marriage to be “it”. Marc was my guy, the one. The father of my children, the man I was going to grow old with,” she wrote.
The couple’s divorce was finalised a few months ago.
