Jennifer Lopez married her first husband , Ojani Noa, as her career was taking off. Their marriage was short-lived, with the couple filing for divorce after less than a year. While they were still together, Lopez admitted that there were some problems with their relationship.
Though Noa enjoyed their lifestyle, he didn’t like that Lopez was the primary breadwinner. Jennifer Lopez said her first husband didn’t like that she made more money than him Lopez said that her level of success wasn’t easy on her love life. Noa had difficulty accepting the attention she received both on and off the screen.
“It’s hard for me to find normal contemporaries and it’s hard for men to deal with,” she told Movieline in 1998. “The man I’ve married is Latin and they, more than any other type of man, are very macho. I always joke with him, because he’s like, ‘You can see through that dress!’ or ‘Is there going to be a love scene in that next movie? You’re my wife.
I don’t want anybody to think of you in that way.’” Lopez told Noa that the attention was necessary if he wanted to maintain his lifestyle. While he enjoyed her wealth, she thought he would give it up if it meant he could be the breadwinner.
“Ojani gets it, though,” she said. “But, I have to say, if you asked him right now, he’d rather have me home washing dishes, with us living in a small apartment, with him making the money rather than me making millions of dollars a year, living in a house tha.