“My whole life has been proving my enoughness,” she continued. “Dealing with feeling like you’re enough, from when you’re very young, is something that you don’t figure out for a long time, because you’re not looking at yourself like that. Something is driving you and your decisions and you don’t know why. You start going, ‘Wait a minute, what the f–k is going on here?’”
Jennifer noted that the inner work she needed became clear through her past romances.
“You don’t even really know until those things star manifesting in your adult relationships,” she added. “‘Oh I’m comfortable with this person ignoring me, I’m comfortable with this person treating me this way or that way.’ That, for me, has been a journey. I think my whole life I’ve just been trying to say I’m good enough, until where I am now, when I know.”
And despite reuniting with Ben since her divorce filing for a public outing, J.Lo also emphasized she is no longer settling for anything less than what “that little girl who grew up in the Bronx” needs.
“Things can really change your life in a way that you do want to give up and say, ‘F–k this, this is too hard, I don’t want to do this anymore,’” she said. “But I’m not there. I refuse to not give myself everything that little girl deserves.”
For a look back on J.Lo and Ben’s full romance, keep reading.
