Is it true that J. Lo has her body insured?
In 1999, tabloids (The Sun in London and the New York Post) ran articles claiming that Jennifer Lopez had indemnified her body (her entire body, please note) to the tune of $1 billion. Even though pound-for-pound the singer’s boobs fetched a more generous appraisal than her hiney ($100 million per breast vs. $300 million for legs and buttocks combined, according to the Post), word on the street soon had it that the “abundant butt” alone was valued at a cool billion. Lopez denied it. I think. “I don’t know where they got it from,” she said to reporters when questioned about the tabloid allegations. “When I heard the story I thought it was very funny.” Her agent’s response was even more vague: “At this time we cannot confirm or deny this information.” A more flaccid set of denials ran under headlines like “Lopez: I’m No Billion Dollar Babe” on BBC News and elsewhere, so we’re obliged to conclude a posteriori, as it were that someone at some point must have actually uttered the words “It’
