I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.

With the simultaneous release of her second studio album J. Lopez wed long-time friend Marc Anthony in 2004. She suffered from a lack of sleep and froze up in her trailer; years later Jennifer Lopez confessed: "I was like – I don't want to move I don't want to talk I don't want to do anything.

Her fifth studio album Como Ama una Mujer (2007) received the highest first-week sales for a Spanish album in the United States. Following subsequent roles in the films Anaconda (1997) and Out of Sight (1998) Jennifer Lopez ventured into the music industry in 1999 with her debut studio album On the 6 joining a select few in successfully converting from a film to music. Lopez became romantically involved with actor Ben Affleck while still married to her second husband Cris Judd during shooting of Gigli (2003) a film that is considered one of the worst of all time.