Jennifer Lopez
Lopez in 2010, kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Jennifer Lynn Lopez
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 24, 1969
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican [Spanish, likely Taíno and African]
Jennifer Lopez is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, producer, and television personality. Her roles include Blood and Wine, Selena, Out of Sight, The Cell, The Wedding Planner, Shall We Dance?, Hustlers, and Anaconda, among many other films.
Her parents, Guadalupe Rodríguez and David López, are Puerto Rican. Her sister, Lydia Lopez, is a journalist. Jennifer is married to actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck. She has two children with her former husband, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor Marc Anthony, who is also Puerto Rican. Her sister is DJ Lynda Lopez.
A picture of Jennifer with her parents can be seen here.
Jennifer’s maternal grandfather was named José Julio Rodríguez y Febres (the son of a father surnamed Rodríguez, and of Justina Febres).
Jennifer’s maternal grandmother was Julia Rivera y Rosado (the daughter of Vicente Rivera y Rivera and María Rosado y Rodríguez). Julia was born in Jayuya, Jayuya, Puerto Rico. Vicente was from Ponce, the son of Valentín Rivera y Rivera and Narcisa Rivera y Rivera. Valentín and Narcisa were born with the same paternal and maternal family names. Jennifer’s great-grandmother María was the daughter of Antonio Rosado and Rodulfa Rodríguez.
Source: Genealogy of Jennifer Lopez (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.geni.com
Lopez in 2008, photo credit: Urbanworld Film Festival
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Davina wrote
Jennifer with her cousins, mother and aunt at her cousins BDAY.. Her mother and more her aunt look like they have a lot of native blood.
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I agree Davina. Her family look mixed
The bitch is over RATED. NEXTTTTTTTTTT
Jennifer Lopez – Puerto-Rican-American entertainer is of Taino/Arawak (Amerindian), Spanish (Caucasian), and African extraction
How do you know? I have not been able to find a source on this. She looks it, but I’ve never heard of her being tri-racial although I would not doubt it.
Yeah she definitely has some Native in her no doubt, but you can’t really be sure she is part Black.
She doesn’t have to say it, it’s no big secret.
All you have to do is look up genetics basics and Caribbean history, 95% of the populations in the Caribbean are of African decent that means full, part mixtures but hardly anyone is truly straight Caucasian or white.
Now with the multi-racial mixture you get all different types of looks because they carry genes for all the races within their background even though all the genes are not always always expressed. You can get someone who looks straight caucasian or tons of mixtures or straight African.
Just think all different shades, and looks: Jennifer Lopez, Adriana Lima, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, (Jamaican decent) Naomi Campbell (Jamaican decent).
Oh and JLo’s African ancestry is more than obvious, naturally tightly curly hair, the lips, the hips, the booty.
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Christina Milian (Cuban)
Yeah she definitely has some Indian in her no doubt, but African, you can’t really be sure.
It’s called food, hair dye, aging, environment and make-up, Hayden.
I don’t get what you are telling me but I went to Argentina and everyone looks Spanish/European or native. I landed in PR and once in Cuba and everyone looks more mixed up like Jlo and alot more fuller figures on a lot of the women..The only difference that Im aware of between Argentina people and PR or Cuban people is that Argentina did not have so many african slaves compared to PR and Cuba…So JLO to seems to match the history of the island..which is mainly spanish with a bit of african and native thrown in hence she has an african shape ass..OK.
jennifer has an hourglass figure like kim kardashian – is she part african too? i highly doubt it.
sure what you are saying is correct about the history of Latin America, but dont start with the ‘everyone is black’ shit that heaps of people try to push these days. honestly if JLO actually had black in her, it would be represented by less than 3% in her DNA. Her hair is not tight and curly like africans at all – her hair resembles curly, dense and thick of the mestizo/mestiza or modern mesoamericans. She has their flat face and jaw structure (no pure black african has that facial structure) and fuller lips but not Black African full lips.
Uhh, if it was at 3% you wouldn’t be able to see an African look AT ALL. You just have to look at Jlo and you can SEE that she is part Black. What do you have against her being part Black anyways? Racist. YES we all know she looks Native. Whatever. If it makes you feel any better, she probably has more Native because she looks it. Gosh.
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You have no idea what your talking about.
Latinos become part Black when they kill unarmed 17 year olds with Skiitles and iced tea!