Jennifer Lopez has proven she is the same size she was 25 years ago. The 56-year-old Hustlers actress was modeling the exact same pair of Versace lace-up, two-toned blue denim jeans she wore in her 2001 music video 'Ain't It Funny.'
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'They're the same ones from that video,' Lopez wrote on X as she added a smiling emoji. That up-tempo track was about unrequited love, with the video showing the siren falling for a hunky shirt-free man in a gypsy circus setting.
In the music video, the Bronx-born beauty paired the designer jeans with a black crop top that displayed her toned midsection. In the new clip, Lopez had on a white micro top which emphasized her still-toned tummy.
Parody with Mika Abdalla
The post was a funny parody with Mika Abdalla, 26, from the smash hit Amazon Prime show Off Campus. The ladies were having fun re-creating a scene from Off Campus where Abdalla shows up in a green dress not too unlike the plunging gown from Versace that Lopez wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000 when she was dating Puff Daddy.
'I don't know her personally, but I'm pretty sure that's JLo,' Abdalla lip-syncs to a voiceover audio of costar Khobe Clarke's line from Off Campus. 'Oh my God, this is me. Now,' Lopez added with her own lip-sync to the words Abdalla's character, Allie Hayes, says after she arrives at a party in the green gown. The ladies then dance to Lopez's 2011 tune 'Get On The Floor.'
'It's a new Jeneration of party people….' wrote Lopez in her Instagram caption.
Lopez's Love for Off Campus
Last week, Lopez said she is a big fan of Off Campus. The steamy new Amazon Prime Video series hit the streamer earlier this month, and viewers loved one moment which saw main character Allie Hayes (Abdalla) wearing J.Lo's iconic plunging gown. Sharing a clip from the episode on X, J-Lo herself wrote: 'Love this shooooww (sic).'
Mika previously opened up on the work that went into creating her own version, and the technicalities of actually wearing the revealing number. In a TikTok clip shared by Betches UK, she said: 'It was unreal. [The dress] was built from scratch. My first fitting was like, put on this nude leotard and we're going to cut it up and pin all this s*** to you. It was five fittings. It was insane, I was so taped in. I was ready to dance the night away.'
The scene in question appears in the TV adaptation of the hit romance series of books, but isn't actually included in Elle Kennedy's novels themselves. However, the star was immediately convinced it would be a hit with viewers. She told People magazine: 'I had a feeling, especially because it happened so early on... When we were getting close to the dress being finished and I saw what it was going to [look like], when we were shooting it, I was like, 'huh, I think people are going to like this.'
Behind the Iconic Gown
Lopez previously opened up on her own concerns about wardrobe malfunctions while wearing the iconic gown, which her stylist Andrea Lieberman originally discouraged her from wearing because Donatella Versace had already worn it to the 1999 Met Gala. However, the singer's longtime friend and manager Benny Medina was 'adamant' that it was the one.
J.Lo recalled on the Moments of Fashion YouTube series in 2019: 'I put on the green dress and come out and Benny goes, "That's it. That's it. Don't even talk about it. That's the dress!" And of course my stylist is mortified. She's like, "No! It's been worn before!" But the guys were so adamant that it was an amazing dress, and we said, "Ok." The only concern was whether or not my boobs were gonna pop out onstage because it was so low-cut, we literally laid double stick down and we stuck the dress to it and went out. There was never any danger of that. I was so securely stuck into that thing that there was gonna be no mishaps.'
