I just couldn’t allow myself to let that become who I was,” she added. “Despite the hurt and the pain, I just kept going. I started thinking, ‘Yeah, that’s true,’ and it really hurt me for a long time. She’s just a pretty face or her butt is big,’ or whatever they were saying about me. Lopez has long struggled with self-doubt about her career, telling The Post in 2018: “Everybody was like, ‘She can’t sing. “I had to really figure out who I was and believe in that and not believe in anything else,” she forlornly added. I just had a very low self-esteem,” Lopez lamented in a voiceover. In a new trailer for the doc that dropped Wednesday, the actress is seen sobbing in bed after being overlooked for the honor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The full extent of Lopez’s sorrow is revealed for the first time in the Netflix documentary “Halftime,” set for release next month. Jennifer Lopez put on a brave face after failing to nab a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2020 Oscars.īut the superstar was secretly devastated by the snub after wowing critics with her role as a scheming stripper in “Hustlers.”
