Jessica has some nice things to say about Jennifer Lopez in an interview with USA Weekend. She even admitted that she has a chandelier just like Jennifer has in her nursery.

Do you have a chandelier in the nursery like Jennifer Lopez?
Actually, I do. I got a really beauti- ful one.

Do you think, especially after this presidential election, that we won’t be so obsessed with skin color as a nation?
I think my generation is the last generation that sees color. In this next generation coming up, everybody is mixed. And I think with people like Jennifer Lopez and Halle Berry being out there opening movies and having clothing lines and pushing the idea of ideal beauty, [the ideal isn’t] Christie Brinkley anymore. You don’t have to look like Barbie.
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Singer Marc Anthony and actress/singer Jennifer Lopez attend “A Night To Benefit Raising Malawi & UNICEF”, hosted by Madonna and Gucci, at The United Nation in New York City on February 6, 2008.

• J.Lo “gets out of the house” for Madonna’s U.N. fundraiser
A heavily pregnant Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony hit the United Nations on Wednesday for singer Madonna’s star studded fund-raising dinner for Malawi orphans and the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “We feel great, we’re happy to be here for such a great cause — it takes a lot to get me out of the house these days,” said Lopez, who was dressed in a brown Gucci dress and joked with reporters that she might have to sneak out of the dinner if she went into labor! Amid media reports she is expecting more than one bundle of joy, Lopez simply smiled when asked if she was expecting twins. Unsurprising, most of the stars who walked the black carpet were dressed in Gucci, which paid for the entire event, although Billy Joel’s wife, TV host Katie Lee, admitted his suit was from the Italian designer’s “last season.” Gucci Chief Executive Mark Lee said the event had already raised $3.7 million “before the guests sat down to dinner” and would raise more through a celebrity auction. Alicia Keys, Timbaland and Rihanna were also slated to perform.
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• A very pregnant Jennifer Lopez – whose father recently confirmed she is expecting twins – stole the scene in a flowing brown Gucci gown with an alligator belt. (Even at nine months along, the singer is still rocking high heels. She lifted up her skirt to flash a pair of platforms to PEOPLE.) Her ex, Sean “Diddy” Combs, also hit the event, which coincided with NYC’s fashion week. When asked if he had any tips for Lopez, the mogul (who welcomed twins of his own in 2006) replied, “She doesn’t need any advice. She’s a loving person. She’ll make a great mother.”
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Musicians Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez attend the Marchesa Fall 2008 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2008 at Chelsea Art Museum on February 6, 2008 in New York City.
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• Pregnant Lopez stuns at New York Fashion Week
Jennifer Lopez stunned the stylish at New York City Fashion Week on Wednesday by showing off her baby bump in a breathtaking teal Marchesa dress. Despite reports she’s ready to deliver twins at any moment, Lopez couldn’t stay away from the catwalk and braved the big freeze in the Big Apple to attend the Marchesa show. She said: “I’m feeling good. I haven’t gone out a lot for the past few months, but Marchesa has been incredibly good to me. They are just amazing!” And the ever-fashion conscious star admitted she simply cannot pull off the sweatpants look that other mums-to-be adopt just before they go into labour. She added: “People make fun of me because when I do have them over to my house I do have a dress on. I don’t like the way the sweats look with the extra weight.” Lopez’s father, David, confirmed his daughter was expecting twins during an interview with a Spanish-language news show on Monday.

• Marc Anthony eager, excited to become father
Marc Anthony is eager and excited about his new babies. Anthony, whose wife Jennifer Lopez is expecting twins, said he can’t wait for the star to give birth. Anthony said, “I’m so excited to be a daddy. What’s not to be excited about?” Lopez is expected to deliver the babies later this month, and said she finds her baby bump makes it difficult to choose an oufit for New York Fashion Week. “For the size I am right now, I’m still kind of slim through the front - which is crazy,” Lopez, 38, said. “I tried on some things, and some things just make you look like you’re wearing a tent. But this dress I chose in the end is very cute. And it has pockets and the whole thing.” She also finds it difficult to abide by doctors’ advice to rest, and rather prefers to keep busy. At the Marchesa fashion show, Lopez told People magazine, “Right now the best thing I can do for myself, for my body, is to keep resting which is not easy for me. “I like keeping busy and it is very hard because if they say, ‘Be off your feet for four hours a day.’ I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ It’s just so hard.”

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From Never Land to flying carpets to the forested domain of an Indian princess, stars travel to their very own Fantasylands in a new round of celebrity images from famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The new images continue the “Disney Dream Portrait Series” of celebrity photography produced by Leibovitz as Disney Parks extends, through 2008, its “Year of a Million Dreams” celebration on both coasts. Leibovitz’s images capture the transformational power of Disney dreams during a celebration that invites visitors to live out their own Disney dreams as never before at California’s Disneyland and Florida’s Walt Disney World resorts. The latest installment of Leibovitz photography spotlights more celebrities living out their fantasies by starring in Disney dream scenes:

“Where a whole new world awaits”: Aboard their genie-powered magic carpet, Jennifer Lopez (Jasmine) and husband Marc Anthony (Aladdin) soar through the Arabian night. Complete with Whoopi Goldberg (Genie) pushing them among the stars, the two images comprise a dream scene straight from a magic lantern in a scene entitled “Where a whole new world awaits.” For Lopez, the Leibovitz shoot was both transformational and inspirational: “It’s unbelievable,” she said, “a modern princess and the guy with the flying carpet… and the idea of maybe in the future my children seeing me and Marc as Jasmine and Aladdin… I think that would be pretty cool.”

Added Goldberg: “I think those genie-like qualities worked best for me. For me to come out of a bottle and give somebody three wishes seems like a pretty good bargain.”
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Jennifer Lopez is amazed people were surprised when she finally unleashed the big secret and announced she was pregnant. “I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway,” the singer tells Harper’s Bazaar for its February issue. “I was on tour with a bubble gut!” The glowing singer, with Marc Anthony at her side onstage, told the crowd during her final Miami concert Nov. 8: “Marc and I are expecting a baby!” Having ducked the entire issue of the pregnancy for weeks, including when she appeared the previous month on TV with Diane Sawyer and with David Letterman, Lopez, 38, speaking on behalf of herself and Anthony, 39, now says, “I do realize people want to know because they’re interested, but this is the first time I’m going through this. This is my experience and my husband’s experience, and we get to hold that for a little while.”

She adds, “We’re just getting used to the fact that we’ve told everybody.” Still, when it comes to her privacy, “I’m just feeling too protective to open that door right now,” says Lopez. “It’s a Pandora’s box. It’s a destructive lifestyle to be out there. I know because I’ve lived it. Being on the cover of the tabloids every day for two years - it’s hard. You start forgetting who you really are inside.” And her husband? “Marc is a really private person, and he’s been singing onstage since he was really young. He made me realize you can be an artist, and have credibility and success, without your life being on public display 24 hours a day.”

Looks Forward to Time Off
She is aware that the Lopez-Anthony baby will be of tremendous interest to paparazzi, but the infant “will be whatever we are,” she says. “Private when it comes to that stuff.” Once the baby arrives, there is the matter of taking time off. Asked how long that will be, Lopez answers, “I don’t know - and I like that, because my life has been so planned for so many years. Once I did the tour, I really just wanted to shut it down, and since then I’ve had to do three things, including a video. It may not sound like a lot, but you know, as this point, any woman can sympathize. It is a lot. I was ready just to sit.”
People

Singer Jennifer Lopez has revealed she cries every time she sees a “soppy” advert on TV. The ‘Jenny From The Block’ singer - who’s expecting her first child with hubby Marc Anthony, admits that watching a “touching” commercial often sends her into floods of tears. She said: “Anything that is touching makes me cry - any commercial that is sappy and silly. Things about dads make me cry, maybe because of my relationship with my own father. But anytime I see anything about a dad with his little girl, and I’m over tired, I’m gone!” Lopez recently triggered speculation that she is pregnant with twins after ordering matching outfits for a baby boy and a girl. Jennifer requested the monogrammed baby grows - a blue version with the word ‘Prince’ and a pink one labeled ‘Princess’ - from top Los Angeles boutique Petit Tresor. J.Lo confirmed her pregnancy whilst on stage with her husband in Miami in November.
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