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Jennifer Lopez may be single, but don’t expect to see her on a dating app.
“You would never go on Raya would you?” Howard Stern asked the actress-musician during their interview on his Sirius XM radio show on Wednesday, Oct. 15. “No, I don’t want that,” she responded.
“I don’t know. I’m just old-fashioned, I guess,” said Lopez.
The Kiss of the Spider Woman producer-star, 56, got candid about her attitude toward love — both past and potential future — in her first appearance on The Howard Stern Show. When Stern, 71, posited that she’ll “have no problem meeting guys,” Lopez agreed: “I’ll be fine.”
Although she didn’t allude to specific past relationships, the mother of two reflected on what she’s taken away from the likes of her marriages with Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, Marc Anthony and Ben Affleck. “What I learned, it’s not that I’m not lovable. It’s that they’re not capable,” she told Stern.
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“They don’t have it in them. They need to appreciate the little person inside of them. They need to love them,” she said of her past loves.
When Stern said that most of the Grammy nominee’s songs “are about love,” she confirmed that’s always been true. “They’re all about love.”
Elsewhere in their wide-ranging conversation, the Maid in Manhattan star told Stern that she’s lived her life “very out loud, even though I was in the public eye. And I wanted to share my life with someone. I want someone to be there when I’m having my big important moments on the red carpet.”
In the “past few years,” however, “I feel like I want to keep that part so much more quiet in my life,” she said. “The truth is, when you’re in this type of career and you have the type of level of fame that we’re talking about, there is a compromise.”
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Lopez and Affleck, 53, were married from July 2022 until August 2024, finalizing their divorce in January 2025. The former couple had a surprise reunion at the Oct. 6 New York City premiere of Kiss of the Spider Woman, which they both worked on as producers.
As for Affleck and Raya, the actor-director previously poked fun at rumors that he’s on the dating app in 2019, while highlighting a good cause.
Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Bill Condon and costarring Tonatiuh and Diego Luna, is in theaters now. Among Lopez’s upcoming projects are romantic comedy Office Romance with Brett Goldstein and the movies The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Godmother.
