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Hollywood’s #1 Power Couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez grace the cover of the December 2017 issue of Vanity Fair magazine, due on newsstands in November. Jennifer tweeted the cover photo to millions of social media users on Tuesday.
Lopez, 42, also tweeted a video montage of the various VF photo shoots in the magazine (below).
In the cover article, titled “J-Rod! Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez on Love, Beauty, and Redemption,” Jennifer explained how she boldly introduced herself to Alex last year.
‘It was just one of those things where you feel compelled to do something you wouldn’t normally do,” says Jennifer Lopez, explaining how she and retired Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez, who made their red-carpet debut as a couple last spring at the Met Gala, came to be a modern Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio—that is, if Monroe and DiMaggio had been happy, highly functional fortysomethings who had apparently done battle with their demons and emerged the victors
She said she was having lunch in Beverly Hills last winter when she saw Rodriguez walk by. “I almost yelled out ‘Alex,’ but I am the shyest person when it comes to things like that,” she claims. She said he was still outside when she left the restaurant. He was facing away from her when she approached him. “I could literally just have walked away,” she says. “But I walk over and tap him on the shoulder and say ‘Hey.’”
She continued:
“I had just come from a promo for my show, Shades of Blue, so I’m dressed like my character, like a boy—Timberlands, jeans, curly short hair. He looks at me. I say, ‘It’s Jennifer.’ He says, ‘You look so beautiful.'”
She said their first date was an intimate dinner at the Hotel Bel Air.
“He was sitting there in his white shirt, very confident and manly, but then he was just so talkative!” she says. She tried to impress him by being a good listener.
“I just listen. So he’s talking, talking about his plans, about how he had just retired from baseball, about how he saw himself getting married again, all these things you wouldn’t normally talk about on a first date. I don’t know if he thought it was a date. I thought it was a date. Then I knew he was nervous because he asked me if I wanted a drink. I said, ‘No, I don’t drink,’ and he asked if I minded if he had one. He was nervous, and it was really cute.”
“I didn’t know if it was a date,” Rodriguez chimed in. He thought she had a man, or “Maybe we were seeing each other at night because of her work schedule. I went in uneasy, not knowing her situation.”
He added: “She told me around the third or fourth inning that she was single. I had to get up and go re-adjust my [pants]. I went to the bathroom and got enough courage to send her a text.”
Jennifer said she watched him return to the table when she received a text from him.
“So I’m sitting there and he’s walking back, and I get a text. It says…” She looks at Rodriguez for permission. “You can tell her!” he laughs.
“’You look sexy AF,’” Lopez says, recalling her beau’s first text message to her.
Rodriguez remembers his last moment at bat in 2016 and the significance of that shoulder tap from Jennifer a year later.
“Baseball has a funny way of tapping you on the shoulder when you least expect it and telling you that it’s the end,” he says. “I’m thinking about one door closing and another opening, and if that first door doesn’t close, well, there isn’t that second tap.”
Rodriguez’s story about the tap is a poignant reminder that this isn’t just another love story. It’s the story of two people with rich and at times tumultuous pasts, which are part of the reason they have a present as a couple. “We are very much twins,” he says. “We’re both Leos; we’re both from New York; we’re both Latino and about 20 other things.”
“I understand him in a way that I don’t think anyone else could, and he understands me in a way that no one else could ever,” she says. “In his 20s, he came into big success with the biggest baseball contract [at the time]. I had a No. 1 movie and a No. 1 album and made history. We both had ups and downs and challenges in our 30s, and by our 40s we’d both been through so much. And more importantly than anything, we had both done a lot of work on ourselves.”
Lopez, whose parents came from Puerto Rico, grew up in the Bronx, where she shared a bedroom with her two sisters. She famously left home at 18 to make it as a dancer, and burst on the scene in 1991 as one of the Fly Girls on Fox’s In Living Color, the hit comedy series. She quickly parlayed her luminous beauty, talent, and sheer workaholism into a series of starring roles, including Marisa in Maid in Manhattan, which grossed more than $150 million worldwide.
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