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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697 Responses

  1. sadie says:

    She has a huge butt and tiny boobs. Only cares about herself!!!

  2. ohyea says:

    christian just stfu. you’re so bad with eye color

  3. lopac says:

    she doesn’t have african anccestry. all you blacks keep dreaming.

  4. boricua says:

    shes what every black girl wants to look like except they can only hope to look like that if they mix with European or Native Latin Americans

    every black guy would froth over her too… so now they claim her as theirs :/ lol funny I remember reading somewhere either her maternal or paternal grandparents were European immigrants to Puerto Rico, and just above her mother and cousins look very Native… so at most she is probably Mestiza

    • malik says:

      I THOUGHT WHITE GIRLS WANNA BE LIKE

      LIGHT SKIN BLACK PEOPLE

      THATS WHY WHITE PEOPLE ALWAYS GO TAN

      WHITE GIRLS HATE THEIR PALE SKIN

      THATS WHY THEY TAN

      THEY WANNA BE BLACK

      • Carmen says:

        Erm To Malik.

        1) NOT all white girls tan
        2)Depending of which part of euope they are from, they can be naturally tanned e.g the Spanish, italiano people, Portuguese, Greeks, Albanians etc.
        3)White people DO NOT want to be black, the ones who tan only do it to add some colour if they are very pale, or to suit the weather.
        4)White girls are beautiful especially southern european!

        5) I’m Cuban with full on Spanish Ancestry.

        Viva Espana y Cuba!

      • Mena says:

        Even if they tan is not enough to be considered black.. and many white americans/northern european people wont get a dark skin even if they tan..

  5. espana says:

    Jennifer Lopez has fuller lips (not African resembling full lips) but Mestiza or phenotypes that can be found in modern Mesoamericans today.
    Her hair is not of African make up at all :/ Pure Negroids are generally Sub Saharan – look at their natural hair and then look at the miscegenated African Americans of today – they still retain that Negroid hair – Jennifer does not – her hair is curly and possibly very thick and dense, a common trait of Hispanic hair texture.

    The biggest indicator you have (this is in response to Afrocentrists whom believe JLO is Negroid lol) is her beautiful ass haha which does not resemble the shape of Negroid buttocks, but the shape of Kim Kardashian’s hourglass figure – are you going to tell me she is African too?

    • malik says:

      VIDA GUERRA

      IS CUBAN

      HER MOTHER IS AFRO CUBAN BLACK CUBAN

      AND HER DAD IS SPANISH

      =
      SHE HAS THE SAME SKIN TONE

      AS JLO – AND SHE IS HALF BLACK

      I THINK JLO HAS BLACK IN HER LIKE MOST

      PUERTO RICANS

    • over9000 says:

      And where is your proof that she is just “Mestiza” ? Fact is, she probably has African ancestry due to the fact Puerto Rico also has it’s fair share of Black people! Growing up i was told she was Mexican but before that i always thought she looked a little Black to me… Because she doesn’t look like a typical Mestiza.

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