Jennifer Lopez stars in the upcoming movie "The Back-Up Plan" about a woman who conceives twins using artificial insemination.
But Lopez told Elle magazine in their February issue that she decided to forgo in vitro fertilization treatments while trying to get pregnant herself.
“I … believe in God and I have a lot of faith in that, so I just felt like you don’t mess with things like that,” she told Elle. “And I guess deep down I really felt like either this is not going to happen for me or it is. You know what I mean? And if it is, it will. And if it’s not, it’s not going to.”
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Lopez, 40, ended up having fraternal twins Emme and Max in 2008 through natural methods.
However the pop princess’s opinion that IVF is “messing” with God has irked some who underwent IVF to have children.
"You've got to grow with each other; you've gotta bend over backwards for each other," the singer/actress says.
That kind of flexibility and commitment is what makes her most recent marriage, to singer Marc Anthony, such a success.
"Everything is great about my marriage," Lopez says. "We love each other ... in a way that's very deep and meaningful ... We force each other to be better, and I think in a relationship, that's how it should be. You shouldn't be with somebody if he makes you feel less than who you are."
"[Jennifer Lopez] has stated that she would never consider in-vitro fertilization as an option since she is a traditionalist,” an AFA rep said. “We at the American Fertility Association, support Jennifer Lopez's right to not use in-vitro fertilization or any other form of assisted reproduction in the creation of her family, just as we also support another person's right to use this same technology."
