Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony became the parents of twins early on Friday in a New York-area hospital, according to People magazine, which reportedly paid upward of $6 million for the photo rights. The boy and girl, delivered in a Long Island, New York, hospital, were the first for the 38-year-old actress and singer, whose efforts to become pregnant have filled tabloid pages in the past few years. Anthony, a 39-year-old salsa singer, has a daughter and two sons from two previous relationships. Lopez did not confirm her much-rumored pregnancy until early November, when she announced the news to a Miami audience while on a concert tour with her husband. The trade publication Advertising Age reported earlier this week that People magazine was poised to pay the couple between $4 million and $6 million for exclusive U.S. rights to the first photos of the twins.
Congrats to jennifer Lopez. Hopefully now she can settle down and enjoy life.
Kanye West's new video for his single "Flashing Lights" has left some folks scratching their heads, and that's exactly what the artist wants, according to his co-star, Rita G. The Playboy Playmate from Houston stars in the short clip, which is co-directed by Spike Jonze and is generating a lot of buzz since leaking online earlier this month. The slow-motion footage begins with Rita parking in the Nevada desert, exiting her car, dropping her fur coat and lighting it on fire. She walks back to the car and pops the trunk to expose a bound and gagged Kanye. She caresses his face before taking a shovel and bashing him his body out of view – as he's curled up in the trunk. The video then pulls a "Sopranos" and abruptly cuts to black. "It's so funny," Rita G told MTV News about the clip. "This video will go over a lot of people's heads — and it's supposed to. I think it's great that it does. Because Kanye is just on another level; he's ahead of his time, in a sense. "So all the third-graders who come home from school and want to watch videos and snap their fingers and all that, they're probably gonna think, 'That video is whack, but that chick got a fat a**.' And that's fine. But people in higher positions, they're gonna see something different. They're gonna get it, people who are thinkers."
I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only one who thought that the video was pointless and just plain stupid. What Kanye made sure to do is confuse everyone by having a thick chick with a large ass, in nothing but a bra and a thong, be the center of attention throughout the video. That right there is going to throw people off, instantly. At the end, when we finally see Kanye, he is in a trunk and is smashed with a shovel. This video is just disturbing and degrading. He tried too hard to be different. Of course there will be people who will agree that this is a genius video; because of Kanye's rep.