Author: Heather

HollywoodLife.com nabbed an exclusive, in-depth interview with Jennifer. It’s a really great read, so I recommend you check it out. It’s long, but worth the read, as it’s not the standard article we’ve all ready before. It goes much deeper than usual and it seems like Jennifer really opened up.

Jennifer discusses the end of her marriage, how she wanted to inspire fans with the ‘Dance Again’ tour, what attracted her to boyfriend Beau ‘Casper’ Smart, what she wanted to accomplish by touring, singing live, and more.  Here’s a small excerpt:

“I was going through a divorce and the breakup of a family, which was devastating to me because family means everything to me. I had to turn that into something better,” she explained. “I thought, ‘I don’t want to just survive it, I want to come out better than that.’”

She was completely inspired when she heard the song “Dance Again,” penned by Enrique Inglesias, Pitbull and Red One. “I had to beg and beg Enrique to give it to me. I told him — ‘that’s my song.’ And finally, he gave in.

“‘Dance Again’ became my anthem…an expression of what I needed to do at that time in my life and for what I was taking on with this tour. It was a beautiful metaphor that became my reality,” she said.

And an anthem it is for both her and her fans that she uses it to close every show on the highest and most positive note possible.

“Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again,” are the words on the backdrop of her stage, and they are a very, very personal message.

“I wanted to tell other women that no matter how bad your situation, how hard, you have to get through it, you have to hold on for one more day because you will get through it, even if it feels like it is taking too long,” she tells me.

“If my fans see me going through that in front of them — they know how much family and love, mean to me ,and how much it hurt me to end my marriage — then it could help them,” she believes.

You can read the entire article at HollywoodLife.com.