“The Daily Beast,” features a pretty interesting interview with our your favorite entertainer - Jennifer Lopez. An interview she had wanted scrapped from a fashion magazine in which it was originally supposed to run. Yay! This actually got around to asking her all the questions we always wish interviews would ask. Like about boobs! And Scientology!

On confusing post-partum depression with a severe case of megalomania:

“At the tenth day after giving birth all that chemical stuff did peak—that hormone thing—and I did cry a lot that day because I was having so much trouble moving. I couldn’t get up fast enough to feed the babies…Marc was helping out a lot and I was crying and crying and going, ‘Oh, Papi…they’re going to know everybody more than me…They’re going to love everybody more than me!’”

Ay Papi, they’re even going to love your little lemur face more than mine. When asked about her biological papi’s adherence to Scientology, Jennifer responded:

“I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It’s very helpful. So in a sense, yeah, you do call on it.”

But is she a Scientologist?

“No…I wouldn’t have a problem saying [I was] because I know what it is. I have no problems with it and it really actually bothers me that people have such a negative feeling towards it.”

Aliens do tend to make people a little uncomfortable. As does encouraging people not to take anti-psychotic medication. As does Tom Cruise. On the topic of breastfeeding:

“No…I…ah….it’s not that…I’d rather not discuss it. It’s a whole other thing.”

Odd that she’d be so forthcoming on one aspect of maternity, but not another. Jennifer also mentions having had a nervous breakdown at one point:

“I don’t get nervous. I don’t get depressed. Blah, blah, blah…There was a time when I was very overworked and I was doing music and movies and so many things. I was suffering from a lack of sleep. And I did have a kind of nervous breakdown. I froze up on a set. Well, not on a set, but in my trailer. I was like, ‘I don’t want to move. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to do anything.’ It was on that movie Enough [in 2002]. Yeah. I did. I had a nervous breakdown.

We had a similar reaction watching Enough.

“There were no signs leading up to it. You really don’t know what’s happening at first. I was going, ‘What’s going on?’ It was about five in the afternoon in my trailer and I just sat there. I remember telling my assistant at the time, Arlene, to go get the director, Michael Apted, and I asked if I could go home because I was feeling so sick and weird. I kept saying, ‘I’m not weak. I’m not weak.’ It’s funny what tricks your mind plays on you. I just didn’t want people to think I was falling apart. But when I look back on it now it’s so odd to me that those are the words I chose to say: ‘I AM NOT WEAK.’

She’s so real. Like the girl from around the block who had a nervous breakdown on her movie set amid all her assistants. You know the one. Funny thing about this interview, Jennifer attempted to have it scrapped from the magazine for which is was originally written:

The interview was originally done for a major fashion magazine, which removed [reporter Kevin Sessums] from the story after Lopez regretted some of her comments and asked that the story not be published.

Which comments could those have been?

Behind the Glow [The Daily Beast]
Which Magazine Spiked This J-Lo Profile At Her Request? [Gawker]