It's no secret that Jennifer Lopez works hard to maintain her superfit figure [1]. After all, her energetic Vegas show, All I Have, [2] is basically a high-energy cardio class.

But the singer and Shades of Blue star [3], who recently hosted the ultimate pool party [4], isn't afraid to open up about the struggle to get Hollywood to accept her curves. E! News reports [5] that during the Shades of Blue FYC event, Jennifer told one inspired fan:

"They kept telling me to lose weight, and I was a dancer and I was athletic and even my manager at the time who I no longer work with was telling me, 'You need to lose weight. You need to be thinner. I was like, 'No I don't. If I lose any more weight it won't be me.' You know what I mean? It was a fight. It was definitely a fight, and so it's good to hear that it helped anybody in some way because at the end of the day I was just trying to be myself without trying to fit into a mold of what everybody else should be."

And that's why we love you, J Lo!