January,7 2009 - By Katherine Fuller - TheHollywoodGlobe.com
New York,New York - Jennifer Lopez is disappointed that she did not receive an oscar nomination, for her role in
El Cante. The life story of Hector Lavoe who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States.
Starring Her Husband Marc Anthony Playing Lavoe.In a recent interview with Latina magazine, the Bronx native dished about
Marc Anthony, working with former flames and her Oscar potential,admitting that she felt her performance in the film "El Cantante," should have earned her an Oscar.

"I feel like I had that [Oscar worthy role] in 'El Cantante,' but I don't think the academy members saw it," says Lopez. "It is a little bit frustrating. When the Oscars were on, I had just given birth on the 22nd, and the Oscars I think were a day or two later. I was sitting there with my twins — and I couldn't have been happier — but I was like 'How dope would it have been if I would've won the Oscar and been here in my hospital bed accepting the award?'"

But Lopez is not bitter by the snub, Lopez says that "things will happen when they're supposed to happen" and that she has the "utmost faith and no doubt that it will one day."

She also explains why she doesn't flinch at seeing former flames in her past work.
"Every one of my albums is very spot-on with who I was at the time ... I can't regret the things I did in the past, like putting somebody in a video that I was with. Who cares?" Lopez tells the magazine. "I think people relate to me because they know that I'm not being phony."

Her first marriage was to Ojani Noa in 1997, has taught her a lot about love, she says.

"You've got to grow with each other; you've gotta bend over backwards for each other," the singer/actress says.

That kind of flexibility and commitment is what makes her most recent marriage, to singer Marc Anthony, such a success.

"Everything is great about my marriage," Lopez says. "We love each other ... in a way that's very deep and meaningful ... We force each other to be better, and I think in a relationship, that's how it should be. You shouldn't be with somebody if he makes you feel less than who you are."

Lopez's next film, a romantic comedy called "The Back Up Plan," hits theaters on April 16.