Jennifer Lopez hits back at weight jibes with raunchy Las Vegas striptease

The singer left fans flustered at her All I Have show 
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Emma Powell18 May 2018
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Jennifer Lopez hit back at critics by performing a raunchy dance at her Las Vegas residency.

Lopez, 48, revealed earlier this week that she was encouraged to “lose weight”.

But the Jenny From The Block singer proved she was unfazed by the comments as she left fans flustered with her striptease on Thursday night.

Lopez writhed around on a sofa in a pair of heels and a lace bodysuit as she performed to hundreds of fans as part of her All I Have show.

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She was also joined by a fellow female performer as the pair gyrated on stage before Lopez laid down and threw her legs in the air.

The performance came days after Lopez opened up about being told to “lose a few pounds” when she first started out her career.

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She said she had always embraced her curves, but that some people in the industry weren’t fans.

“I got a lot of flak for it from people in the industry,” she told InStyle. “They’d say, ‘You should lose a few pounds,’ or ‘You should do this or do that’.

“It finally got to the point that I was like, ‘This is who I am. I’m shaped like this.’ Everybody I grew up with looked like that, and they were all beautiful to me. I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I still don’t!”

She said her mother and grandmother “drilled” it into her to embrace her figure and to not give into pressures to conform to being a “size 0”.

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“Being curvy or not being 6 feet tall was never a bad thing; it was actually something that was celebrated,” she said.

“And so, later on, when I brought that in front of the world, I wasn’t really trying to send a message. I was just being myself.”

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