Jennifer Lopez Gets Real About Fame

She’s one of the most successful Latina singers in American history. And Jennifer Lopez knows just as well as anyone how hard it can be when you’re famous and everyone wants a piece of you.

While doing press for her new film El Cantante, J Lo was candid about the overwhelming pressures of being a celebrity. "Nobody has a handbook for fame. It's no easy thing to deal with. You've got to have good people around you."

And the “Jenny from the Block” singer has surrounded herself with some pretty amazing people. One of those just happens to be bestselling Puerto Rican singer and husband Marc Anthony.

Anthony told press how hard it can be, especially for children to grow up to be normal and well-adjusted. "The thing about this business, in a way it's pretty sad, because you get child stars who are too many people's meal ticket and they're not going to tell the child that they can't do something."

And Lopez says she realized that although she didn’t necessarily want the tabloid attention she used to get, it was up to her to stop it. "It wasn't that I was courting that attention, it was just that I was just living my life, so I thought. When I sat down for a second and ... had a mature thought about it ... I realized it was my responsibility if I didn't want it to be that way."

Enjoy the pictures of J Lo and Marc at the LA premiere of "El Cantante," which also drew the likes of Eva Longoria (July 31).