Did J.Lo say that her mini-triathlon is more newsworthy than Phelps?


Lopez never mentioned on GMA that she’s technically not doing a full triathlon
Jennifer Lopez was on Good Morning America on Monday to promote the fact that she’s competing in a triathlon for charity on September 14 in Malibu. Lopez is training with Self Magazine editor Lucy Danzinger and all proceeds raised from J.Lo’s triathlon pledges will go to Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. I looked up the triathlon taking place in Malibu on September 14, and it’s a “a half-mile ocean swim, an 18 mile out-and-back bike course, and a 4-mile out-and-back run course.” That’s certainly very difficult, and way more than I could do, but it’s technically not a full triathlon and is what is known as a “sprint triathlon,” but neither Lopez or Danzinger mentioned on GMA that she wasn’t doing a full triathlon. I’m splitting hairs here and she deserves a lot of credit, especially after just having twins six months ago, but if you believe the rumors Lopez is expecting just as much credit as a certain record-breaking Olympian.

Did Lopez say she didn’t understand why Phelps was the big story, not her?
The origins of this rumor are suspect, but Lopez supposedly said behind the scenes on Good Morning America that she didn’t understand why Michael Phelps’ Olympic victories were the big story instead of her fitness achievements. If this is true, maybe she’s just so wrapped up in training and caring for the twins that she doesn’t watch the news, go online, or read a paper. Lopez was on GMA on Monday, which is right after Phelps won his record-breaking eighth Olympic medal:

Jennifer Lopez has reportedly claimed that she is surprised by all the attention eight-time Olympic winner Michael Phelps is receiving.

According to a source at Good Morning America, the singer thought her efforts in training for triathlon were greater than Phelps’s swimming gold medal haul.

After filming a TV interview, she apparently said “she couldn’t understand why everyone is talking about that swimmer.”

The source added: “She couldn’t come up with [Michael] Phelps’ name, and then she yammered on about how she was the one training for a triathlon just six months after giving birth, and how that was the big story right now, not ‘the swimmer’.”

[From DigitalSpy]

I really hope someone made that story up. It’s possible she’s just so isolated in her Long Island mansion and focused on her children and sports training that she’s not keeping up with the news at all. She came across as pretty likable on Good Morning America, but you can see where she gets her reputation if she’s spouting self-centered crap like this.

Jennifer Lopez is shown on Good Morning America on 8/18/08. Credit: Anthony Dixon / WENN

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  1. daisy424 says:

    If this is true, (it wouldn’t surprise me)it just solidifies how self absorbed she really is.
    Hey, Jenny from the block, the planets revolve around the Sun, not you.
    BTW, you have a nice muffin top going on there.

  2. geronimo says:

    Whether she did actually make those comments about Michael P or not, it’s easy to believe that she might have. So uninterested in this woman and her triathlon and her self-obsession. People do triathlons every day of the week without teams of trainers or publicity.

  3. Megan says:

    There are always loads of stories coming out about what a diva she is, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true. Silly woman.

  4. Scribe85 says:

    Did you notice that int the header pictures of Winehouse and Lopez, they both are wearing the same expression?

  5. bros says:

    what a dumb F&%$. this fat-ass isnt even doing a full triathlon and she doesnt get why her efforts at exercising out of vanity and narcissism arent bigger news than a superathlete being the winningest olympian ever? is it possible to be that oblivious? this woman can’t sing, certainly can’t act, makes fugly clothes and cheap perfume, is married to a malnourished skeletor, expects nannies to work for slave wage while she attempts to train for something that isnt even that hard and wants this much attention for it? god she makes me sick.

  6. Granger says:

    Can you really imagine somebody living in the U.S. today not being able to remember Michael Phelps’s name? I don’t care how big a diva J-Lo is, I don’t believe this rumour for one minute.

  7. jaybird says:

    What’s with the earrings? Why does the public continue to idolize the likes of Jennifer and Tyra? Two of the most shallow, disappointing entertainers around.

  8. Syko says:

    All that training, and still sporting those saddlebags.

    This is ridiculous. Women give birth every day and get up and go on with their lives. Some have to go back to a job, some have to take care of several other children, some do both. What a pampered bitch she is!

  9. katie says:

    a sprint triathlon is still an official distance and is a “real” triathlon. I could care less about J Lo doing one but let’s not diminish the efforts of the thousands of folks who train for what is still a tough race even if it’s not IronMan distance (which very few people can actually do).

  10. Kaiser says:

    Damn. Am I going to be the lone Lopez defender? I don’t buy this story. She’s a diva, but I doubt she’s *that* out-of-touch.

  11. megah says:

    sprint triathlon’s are really not that big of a deal. I have run 9 half marathons, 2 marathons and an ultra marathon and I’m only a 21 year old university student.

    It’s hard to bike, swim and run. I’ve tried and I’m not very good. But really, I doubt JLo is trying to place first. She most likely just wants to finish in a decent time, so it’s really not that big of a deal to swin, bike and run one after the other.

  12. She looks just like Heather Mills in this picture. At first, I thought that’s who it was.

  13. Teagen says:

    What a complete idiot.

  14. czarina says:

    megah; give yourself another ten years and two children, THEN see how much of a big deal it is to do a few “minor” marathons and triathalons!!LOL
    As for JLo, I think she’s shallow, a diva, and someone I wouldn’t like to spend time with…but I still think this “overheard” conversation is bull-pucky.
    She might have groused about the fact that the Olympics are overshadowing her training for this triathalon/charity, but I can’t believe she said “that swimmer” or questioned why he was a “big deal”
    That is pushing my gullability a little too far.

  15. Codzilla says:

    I believe nearly anything when JLo’s ego is involved. This woman is so blind to the way the public actually sees her (self-absorbed, irrelevant, downright bitchy), and seems to live in a world populated solely by ass-kissers on her payroll. So what if she’s training for a triathlon? Good for her, I suppose, for the effort, but the idea that this endeavor would be more interesting to the public than a national hero making Olympic history is preposterous.

  16. spoonman says:

    Get over yourself you fat assed bitch!

    No one cares about your self indulgence diets and triathlons??? Triathlon???-let me ask are you doing it for the USA? No-so shut the F#ck Up!

    Do something for america then we will care about you!

  17. cara says:

    I ALWAYS run with my hoop earings on.

    ***I think she should forgo the spandex and opt for loose fitting shorts.

  18. Laura says:

    Listen to Mrs. Ham Thighs! Who the hell does she think she is???

  19. Aspen says:

    You know…to play devil’s advocate here (which I hate to do because this chick is seriously full of herself…and it’s so well-documented that I feel secure saying that), I’d like to point out that this kind of thing is something that even I would say.

    Seriously, if I’m out with a girlfriend shooting the stuff and just being silly…I’d make sarcastic and self-depricating jokes along those lines, myself. The tone of what she allegedly said that was supposedly overheard by some anonymous person who then blabbed it to a tabloid cannot be translated in the articles.

    If she was laughing with a girlfriend or somesuch situation, I don’t find it at all remarkable for someone to say something similar to what’s being reported as an ironic sort of sarcastic and witty commentary on how small her own goal is compared to how huge his victories and records have been.

    I mean…c’mon. Even Jennifer Goddess-of-the-world Lopez could not POSSIBLY think that much of herself.

  20. Ron says:

    Doubt this is true–she is not stupid, except maybe in husband choices.

  21. Orangejulius says:

    Them’s child-bearing hips.

  22. KateNonymous says:

    A “real” triathlon involves all three events–swim, bike, and run. Therefore a sprint triathlon is a “full” triathlon–it’s just shorter than Olympic distances.

    CB, the first sentence in that Wikipedia article even makes that clear, when it says “over various distances.” It makes it even more clear when it lists a sprint as a standard race distance, although there are plenty of sprint triathlons that do not conform to the distances listed in Wikipedia.

    I don’t care whether Jennifer Lopez participates a triathlon, but my interest or lack thereof doesn’t negate the fact that she does plan to do just that. And I’ve completed some myself, BTW.

    Megah, it’s great that you’re such a strong athlete. I don’t think that you should be so dismissive of others, though. My father-in-law is still running marathons in his 70s, and he doesn’t dismiss other events like that. Plus, at one point you say it’s hard and you’re not good at it, and then you say it’s no big deal. Which is it?

    No matter what our achievements are, there is always someone who can do better. Unless you’re Michael Phelps. 🙂

  23. rose says:

    Do not buy this story for one minute!

  24. JoGirl says:

    This reminds me of the old false rumor that Mariah Carey once said she wished she were as skinny as all those starving children in Africa. J.Lo may be a shallow bitch, but I doubt she’s quite as stupid as this story would suggest.

    Aspen’s explanation is the only one that makes any sense to me, if this rumor is true.

  25. beans says:

    sweet lord that top picture is terrible!

  26. Fabiola says:

    Aspen said…”I mean…c’mon. Even Jennifer Goddess-of-the-world Lopez could not POSSIBLY think that much of herself.”

    I seriously hope not!

  27. Codzilla says:

    Spandex is definitely NOT her friend.

  28. The Old KC says:

    I got my SELF magazine in the mail, and she’s on the cover, and she’s the feature “celebrity”. She was named the “SELF 2008 Most Inspiring Woman of the Year”. I think that’s stretching it a bit. I do admire her for wanting to get back in shape, and she does emphasize the role of parents in providing a good example for our kids by being fit. But in the article she goes on and on about how proud her twins will be of her accomplishment (doing the tri) before they are even one year old. Well, sorry if I don’t share your (and SELF’s) enthusiasm, Mrs. Lopez. I work a full-time job and went back to work when my son was three months old, and I had to work very hard to lose the baby weight, especially since I was still nursing. If I didn’t have a job and my husband could afford to take 6 months or a year off of work, then sure, I would be able to carve out some time to train for a triathlon. But for us, it was back to the old grind. I still exercised, before, during and after my pregnancy, but her satisfaction at her accomplishment came across as a bit smug to me. Show me a real woman, working a real job, with a real life (i.e., non-celebrity) who does a tri (even a sprint-tri) and then I’ll be impressed. I actually have always liked Jennifer Lopez but this SELF article, the title of “Most Inspiring Woman” and the whole bit just came across as really self-righteous to me. Actually I wondered “how much did she pay SELF magazine to grant her that title”?

  29. Las Vegas Ken says:

    This is an absolute joke. I am so sick and tired of these whinning Hollywood actors trying to get attention. We have to suffer through their feeble attempts at it from dating and sleeping with everyone in sight…JUST FOR THE ATTENTION….getting pregnant…JUST FOR THE ATTENTION……spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on clothing and accessories JUST FOR THE ATTENTION…and have you noticed, they all seem to have some trauma in their past…JUST FOR THE ATTENTION…multiple divorces….JUST FOR MORE ATTENTION. I am absolutely sick of it especially in light of what is going on in the world. Very few of them remain humble. Very few of them even remember how it was before they became a star. Selfish, imature, superficial, waste of flesh. J-Lo how about getting a clue? Everything is not about you. For you to slight this young mans accomplishments is as low as it gets. And when you fail at this (an you will fail) with your stylist and publisist following you around, then it will be time to hide away for some secret Lipo sessions…in the end…JUST FOR THE ATTENTION!!! Same old crap from them…only a different day!!

  30. jaundicemachine says:

    Yeah . . . I dislike the woman because she told the world that she’s doing “a triathlon” – without any sort of disambiguation or clarification that she is actually doing a “sprint triathlon.” (Which is still an accomplishment, but if you give anyone 3 months and a private personal trainer 5 times a week, you’d still be able to do it. Trust me. I have faith in you. 😉 )

    She may have said some depricating comments to friends in jest, but when she’s as big of star as she is (or at least as big as she thinks she is) one would hope she would practice some self-restraint when on the set of a popular/publicized tv show. That kind of humor seldom reads well with us “groundlings”, and for someone who has spent ages in the business and hundreds of thousands on self-promotion, she ought to know better.

  31. Keese my cakes says:

    when Katie Holmes did her marathon after having a baby, she didn’t make it a point to brag to the media and blurt out every detail to get attention. JLO always has to open her big hole and let everyone know how much she has and how much better her life is than everyone else’s. Screw her and her flat nosed pig face with hoop earrings. Maybe she should stop eating so much and feed her husband a little. Her kids are very cute but so are all babies. Give me a break JLO….don’t try and compare yourself to an actual athlete who is accomplishing so much for our country instead of showing off to the media how you lost your baby weight!

  32. Gigohead says:

    😀 I would gladly donate good money if I don’t have to hear from her again. hahahaha 😀 😀 She has to be the most annoying person in 2008.

  33. boredwithjho says:

    J.lo looks like she smells like p*zy pubes with them 1980’s spandex pants. And why is wearing that sweater around her booty? It is so obvious that she is hiding something, maybe a camel toe, but on the rear side, hahahh

  34. Raj says:

    she said “the swimming’s a killer…phelpsy has nothing to worry about with me”….the clip is on youtube..you guys are so quick to assail someone without actually listening to what they said…she was talking about how difficult the swimming part is.

  35. Diva says:

    FABIOLA???? Are you the REAL Fab???

    Where have you BEEN???? 😀

  36. Steve says:

    This is just a silly rumor, and should be treated as such.

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