Jennifer Lopez's Dad Confirms She Is Pregnant With Twins, Sacrifices Chickens At Intersections
Jennifer Lopez’s father decided it has hight time he started receiving some publicity, too, and recently went on “Escándalo TV” to confirm his daughter’s womb is simply brimming with babies:
Yes, twins,” her dad David Lopez said in an interview on the Spanish-language show Escándalo TV, PEOPLE en Español reports. “The thing is in my family, my sister also had twins, so it’s a hereditary thing.”
For David Lopez, the news means double the excitement.
“I’m very proud. Jennifer has yearned to be a mother for many years,” he said.
It strikes us as fairly odd to be proud of someone for procreating, no? “I’m so proud of the way my daughter’s old, shrively eggs finally proved themselves useful and grabbed on to that sperm in a way that is so real and relatable yet fabulous.”
And he already has gifts ready for his 38-year-old daughter’s babies.
“In Puerto Rico it’s custom to buy an azabache [black stone] bracelet for babies to protect them from the evil eye, it’s part of our culture,” he said.
Child, please. That is Santeria, which is not a Puerto Rican tradition; it is a religious practice. Either way, congrats to the happy Babalorisha and Iyalorisha.
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how awesome you guys recognize the Yoruba connection!!! As soon as I heard speculation she was having twins I was like, yeah of course she is.
As if they weren’t going to be already, those kids are going to be especially spoiled…
Posted by marytza | February 06, 2008
Sorry. Those little azabache fists have nothing to do with Orisha. Everybody gets those little bracelets for babies, even Italians. They are to protect from the evil eye. It’s also called a mano figa see:
http://www.luckymojo.com/manofico.html
Puerto Ricans tend to have them made out of jet. But it’s a European superstition.
And the chicken joke is really old. Like were you all brought up in Vaudeville or something. Give me a break.
Posted by Jason | February 06, 2008
@jason
Mano figa and azabache are two entirely different things.
Azabache is a stone, the other is a symbol.
The very essene of azabache is to protect against evil eye, the “little fists” are something else - not even mentioned in the article.
Posted by marytza | February 06, 2008
Sorry, but no. The little azabache bracelets for babies, the azabache is carved into a little fist. The article didn’t have to mention it, I’ve seen a lot of them in my day. Look at them, you can buy them on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/AZABACHE-BRACELET-FOR-BABIES-PROTECTION-FROM-EVIL-EYE_W0QQitemZ350020747980QQihZ022QQcategoryZ84606QQcmdZViewItem
http://www.topuertorico.org/culture/folklore.shtml
Or please explain how this is a belief of traditional Yoruba religion.
Sorry to be cranky with you but I have the flu, must be bird flu, lil old cranky Santero me.
Posted by Jason | February 06, 2008
I was citing the Yoruba connection for the twinbirth Then I just got annoyed by your first response so called you out on the fists.
I’ll send J.Lo an Ibeji carving on behalf of both of us. Bought in person.From a botanica.
Posted by marytza | February 07, 2008
I was citing the Yoruba connection for the twinbirth. As an Internet savvy Santero, I trust you know their significance. Then I just got annoyed by your first response so called you out on the fists.
I’ll send J.Lo an Ibeji carving on behalf of both of us. Bought in person. from a botanica.
Posted by marytza | February 07, 2008
Merefum Orishas,
merefum, J-Lo y nenes
Posted by Mexi-Rican Mami | April 21, 2008