{"id":2080440,"date":"2025-10-09T22:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2080440"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:09:25","slug":"jennifer-lopez-reveals-she-ran-a-449-mile-in-high-school-i-was-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-lopez-reveals-she-ran-a-449-mile-in-high-school-i-was-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Reveals She Ran a 4:49 Mile in High School: \u2018I Was for Real\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jennifer Lopez<\/strong><\/a> proved she\u2019s not just a multi-faceted entertainer in reflecting back on her high school track days.<\/p>\n

On the Wednesday, October 8 episode<\/a> of Matt Rogers<\/strong> and Bowen Yang<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s \u201cLas Culturistas\u201d podcast, Lopez, 56, surprised listeners in revealing some of her athletic accomplishments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started track when I was in 5th or 6th grade,\u201d she recalled. \u201cMy best mile ever was, I think 4:49 \u2014 I was for real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez said she focused on middle-distance events like the 800m and 1,500m, adding, \u201cThere were times in my life where I thought I would take the athlete [route]. I was an athlete \u2014 like a little tomboy jock person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The conversation with Yang, 34, and Rogers, 35, soon turned from track meets to love stories. When asked about her famous on-screen chemistry, Lopez laughed and admitted, \u201cI can fall in love with anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the bad quote from here,\u201d she said. \u201cBut no, my point is I feel like I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because I\u2019m a romantic and I so believe in love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers praised Lopez for her ability to connect \u201cwith so many different kinds of leading men,\u201d from Matthew McConaughey<\/strong> in The Wedding Planner to Ralph Fiennes<\/strong> in Maid in Manhattan. Lopez agreed, saying her secret lies in seeing the person behind the character.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m able to have that chemistry with people and with all different kinds of people,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m able to kind of see through this and get to who is the person on the inside and really fall in love with that person in that moment, like they say, in between action and cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez\u2019s new film, a movie adaptation of the stage musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, gave her a chance to explore that same theme.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only about love for me,\u201d she told the hosts. \u201cIt\u2019s funny because I identified most not with the Spider Woman, not with Aurora, even though there were parts of me that I feel were very much like each of those characters \u2026 but Ingrid Luna was the most like me because she\u2019s an entertainer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reflecting on one of her favorite scenes, Lopez described the musical number \u201cWhere You Are,\u201d where her character invites another to escape through song.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where I say to him, \u2018Come with me. Let\u2019s escape together. Let\u2019s escape into this song, let\u2019s escape into this movie, let\u2019s escape into this world. Forget you\u2019re in a prison, don\u2019t be where you are. Be with me, let\u2019s go have fun,\u2019\u201d she shared. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many times in my own life I have had someone come up to me and say, \u2018This song got me through this\u2019 or \u2018this movie made me dream and want to do what I\u2019m doing today.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez added,\u201cThe more I keep going, they keep going. When they see me fall down and they see me get back up. But what they don\u2019t realize, and what I love about the movie and I love about that number, is that he saves her, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiss of the Spider Woman hits theaters on Friday, October 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Lopez proved she\u2019s not just a multi-faceted entertainer in reflecting back on her high school track days. On the Wednesday, October 8 episode of Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang\u2019s \u201cLas Culturistas\u201d podcast, Lopez, 56, surprised listeners in revealing some of her athletic accomplishments. \u201cI started track when I was in 5th or 6th grade,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[319952,22265,318662,312991],"class_list":["post-2080440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bowen-yang","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-matt-rogers","tag-ralph-fiennes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jennifer-Lopez-Reveals-She-Ran-a-449-Mile-in-High.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080442,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080440\/revisions\/2080442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}