Jennifer Lopez Bemoans Her Stomach  10/4/05

Jennifer Lopez has found a fault in her much-revered body - her stomach isn't flat enough.

The Jenny From the Block singer, whose ample derriere has helped win her admiration around the world, admits her physique isn't quite what it used to be.

She says, "I'm very lucky: I've got good genes, and I've been athletic my whole life. I'm ahead of the game - I'm more in shape than I would be if I didn't do what I did.

"But it's tough, and I do have issues. My body is not what it used to be; my stomach is not flat. People are like, 'Your stomach is flat!' But I'm like, 'It used to be really flat, like it was concave.'

"But I love all my body. I thank God for my body. It hasn't betrayed me.

"I was never raised to be, like, pencil-thin. You know, we saw it in magazines, and everybody's like, 'Oh, that's the ideal.'

"But the women around me - my mother and my aunts and the people in our neighborhood - they were all fuller. They were normal woman and they were beautiful. So I didn't ever feel like I had to be anything but that, which was myself."