Jennifer Lopez Admits Fiancé Alex Rodriguez Is 'Very Excited' About Her Stripper Role

Jennifer Lopez admits 'excited' fiancé Alex Rodriguez took her to strip clubs as 'research' for Hustler role and she revealed that her fiancé Alex Rodriguez was more than happy to help her research for the role as it involved visiting various strip clubs.

Speaking on Apple Music’s Beats 1 , the 49-year-old singer confessed that her other half was 'very excited' by her new role, and was only too eager to help out.

'Alex was very excited about me doing a stripper movie', Jennifer confessed. 'He helped me do research by going to a strip club in NYC with me and we watched the show and afterwards I chatted to some of the girls.

'Of course he knew that world (the stripper world) very well from when he was a young athlete, going to the clubs and stuff. He helped me a lot with the preparation for this movie and was very supportive.'
Jennifer plays Ramona in Hustlers, a thinly-veiled version of American stripper Samantha Barbash.
Barbash was the ringleader of a gang of young exotic dancers, who drugged wealthy Wall Street clients and scammed them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The ensemble includes Cardi B, Mercedes Ruehl, Julia Stiles, Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, Frank Whaley and Trace Lysette.

Jennifer, who got engaged to Fox Sports commentator Alex Rodriguez on March 9, also spoke about the intense diet she went on in order to shape up for the movie.

Whilst the mother-of-two will not appear nude in the film, she will be seen in several scanty strip club ensembles, and embarked on a crazy diet to tone up for the role.

She explained: 'My body had to be fit, so I started preparing my body. Me and Alex went on a strict no sugar, no carbs diet first for ten days then for 5 days.

'Also dieting is easy when you are 20 and gets harder the older you get. I've got a video coming up on my YouTube channel about my dieting and staying fit.'

Revealing just how strict her diet was, she added: 'It's about what not to eat and crazy discipline. That means: A tomato has sugar in it, so none of that. No fruit. Started it a ten days and now we're at five. And then on a Saturday we'll have a waffle.'

She added that whilst she wanted to get fit for the film, she doesn't care what critics say about her skimpy ensembles.

Touching on the fact that she will turn 50 this year, she reasoned: 'I believe that whatever you feel good in, you should wear, no matter what people say.'



Elsewhere in the chat, Jennifer - who revealed that her proposal from Alex was 'perfect' - discussed her relationship with the star, confessing he was 'awkward' at first.

She revealed: 'Our first date wasn't a first date but rather a meet up, but he was so awkward and cute and perfect from the first moment.'

A-Rod has two daughters - Natasha, 14, and Ella, 10 - while J-Lo has 11-year-old twins, a son Max and a daughter Emme whose father is Marc Anthony.

The former professional baseball player popped the question last month in a romantic beach setting.