Jennifer Lopez grew up wanting to feel loved.
The 54-year-old singer opens up about her childhood struggles in a new documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, in which she blames the actions of her parents for making her feel neglected and alone.
She says this in the film: “When I was a child, I was always looking for someone to make me feel loved.
“I was the middle child. I wasn't a baby or my firstborn. I just got a little lost between everything.”
Jennifer, who grew up in the Bronx with sisters Leslie, 56, and Linda, 52, also slammed her parents, Guadalupe Rodriguez and David Lopez, who divorced in the 1990s.
“I felt very neglected by my father, because he always worked nights and then slept all day, and I felt like I didn't have enough of a connection with him.”
“My mother was a narcissistic, attention-seeking, party-obsessed person.”
The mother-of-two addressed her difficult relationship with her mother in the 2022 Netflix documentary Halftime.
In the film she said: She said: “My mother is a very complicated woman and she has a lot of baggage. Her mother wanted us to be independent and she would never have to depend on a man. .”
“She did what she had to do to survive, and that made her strong, but it also made her tough. She beat the S out of us.”
J. Lo added that she and her mother took a mutual “vacation” after the singer and actress chose not to attend college against her mother's wishes.
She said: “I wanted to try dancing full-time.'' I started sleeping on the couch at the dance studio.
“I was homeless and I said to her, 'This is what I have to do.'”
Jennifer currently has a good relationship with her parents, and on Father's Day last year, she posted a tribute to her father on Instagram saying, “I love you, Daddy,” to which he responded, “Thank you.” . You, sweetheart, I love you more. ”