Jennifer Lopez

Latin heat meets Versace and Puffy February, 2000. The Grammy Awards. In the evening's highpoint, Latin beauty Jennifer Lopez wears an eye-popping Versace dress that looks like a pasted-on scarf. It barely conceals her body. The audience is visibly dumbfounded. Her co-presenter, the usually witty David Duchovny, is star-struck and he stutters his lines. A chiquita legend is born.Jennifer Lopez spotlights the career and personal life of a celebrity riding the wave of our love affair for all things Latin. Lopez first blazed into the spotlight when she starred in the film Selena.The role helped catapult Lopez into a bona fide Hollywood star. Since then, she has starred in several films - including the popular hit Anaconda and the modern noir flick Blood and Wine. She recently took the music world by storm with the release of her first cd, the best-selling On the 6.Success for Lopez has come at a personal price. The media magnet's every move and romance are reported in breathless detail. This is partly because drama seems to follow Lopez wherever she goes. Her short-lived marriage ended in divorce, a casualty of the pressures of stardom. The book delves into her high-profile relationships with Sony music chief Tommy Mattola and rap impresario Sean A. Puffy Combs.This biography offers up-to-the-minute details about the case. It also details Lopez's early years. Born and raised in the Bronx to a middle-class Catholic family, Jennifer Lopez always had her sights set on stardom. She got her first break as a dancing "Fly Girl" on the innovative series In Living Color, but even then it seemed a long shot for an actress of Latin descent to ever be a leading lady. Lopez never doubted herself, only to prove the sceptics wrong. "If I could describe myself in a few words," she says "strong would be one of them. I know what I want, and I'm willing to go after it."