Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez began dating in 2017, years after they met for the first time. Lopez, who said she typically did not make moves like this, greeted Rodriguez when she saw him out. She didn’t think he looked her best, but he didn’t seem to mind.
Jennifer Lopez didn’t think she looked her best when she greeted Alex Rodriguez In 2017, Lopez was having lunch in Beverly Hills when she saw Rodriguez walk past her. She had met him before but didn’t feel comfortable calling out to him. “I almost yelled out ‘Alex,’ but I am the shyest person when it comes to things like that,” she told Vanity Fair .
When she left the restaurant, though, he was still outside. While it was not something she would normally do, she felt compelled to say something to him. “I could literally just have walked away,” she said.
“But I walk over and tap him on the shoulder and say ‘Hey.’” At the time, Lopez was in costume for her show, Shades of Blue , in which she played a detective. She didn’t feel she looked her best, but she still impressed Rodriguez.
“I had just come from a promo for my show, Shades of Blue , so I’m dressed like my character, like a boy — Timberlands, jeans, curly short hair,” she recalled. “He looks at me. I say, ‘It’s Jennifer.
’ He says, ‘You look so beautiful.’” Alex Rodriguez continued to compliment Jennifer Lopez on their first date They agreed to meet up for dinner. While Lpoez said she viewed their outing as a firs.