27 February 2024 , 11:25
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Jennifer Lopez displays "misery and suffering behind a smiling façade" in her new documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, according to experts.
The Jenny from the Block hitmaker stars in the hard-hitting programme alongside her husband Ben Affleck. Emotional scenes play out in the show, including moments of self-reflection as J-Lo breaks down in tears – but is everything as it seems?
Exclusively analysing the show's trailer, body language expert Judi James tells The Mirror that Jennifer appears bare-faced and messy-haired as she shows her true emotions in the newly released special, often looking as if she's extremely "terrified".
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Jennifer gets candid in the new TV documentary (Amazon Prime)"J-Lo is successful, beautiful, talented and in an idyllic marriage to the man she has always loved. She is also rich beyond most people’s wildest dreams but the one thing she also needs, it appears in this trailer, is sympathy and pity," Judi explained.
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She added: "J-Lo doesn’t just use words to describe her emotions she acts them out with her body language in front of the cameras. The word ‘Terrified’ is illustrated by Jen with messy hair turning to look into the camera with an expression of fear.
"We see her at home, bare-faced and also messy-haired, pushing away something invisible behind her with her voice seeming to crack with emotion. When the term ‘stressed’ is said or ‘I’m not good enough’ we see her collapsed over her keyboard with her voice cracking with tears. She does the classic ‘reality dab’ of tears with fingers splayed talking about being ‘older’ and despite the strap-lines containing the word ‘resilient’ we end with her so frightened she is biting her knuckles and her nails like a child."
Referencing Ben's part in the show, Judi added: "Ben is shown as support in this trailer, standing posed in his Superman mode with chest puffed and one arm round her shoulder as she snuggles into him looking vulnerable. As he kisses her head you almost expect to see him raising one arm before flying off with her, cape rippling behind him."
Ben stars alongside wife Jennifer in the programme (Amazon Prime)In the programme, Jennifer confessed: "What he said and what he saw in me, and what he made me believe about myself, only comes from love. Because nobody else could have made me see that about myself. It's very moving." She added: "Because I didn't think much about myself and so the world didn't think much of me. That lined up."
During the documentary, Jennifer spoke about how her husband was the muse for her independently produced album. While creating the album she even had her musical crew read handwritten love letters from Ben over the years that inspired the project.
While Jennifer admitted Ben was "uncomfortable" being the centre of the work, he still happily supported her throughout her artistic endeavour and rooted her on every step of the way. After reuniting following a decades-long split, Jennifer said: "We're totally different people now and we're the same and we have the same love 100 percent.
"Like I'd never fallen out of love with you. I had to just put it over here." To which her crew member chimed in: "It seems like it's liberating in a sense because he loves every part of you but it's not dependent on what this album is or anything."