While a second helping of rice and beans can greatly aid in growing great glutes, without the right DNA, that butt will just spread sideways instead of up and out. It is a butt that occasionally crops up on white folks, but more often than not is found on brown and black folks. It is a butt engineered solely by genetics. That was their butt, their mother's butt, their aunt's and sister's, represented up there on the silver screen. And women, checking her out in U-Turn and Money Train, cackled in recognition, 'Jennifer Lopez's got back.' Men of color watching the Oscars a couple of years ago whistled in appreciation at the sight of Lopez clad in a form-fitting designer frock. After all, Latino and African-American brothers and sisters checked out that posterior a long time ago. Still, the mainstream media is a little behind the times. The first to get a thumbs-up from Elle, that purveyor of fashionably diminutive derrieres, which declares in its November issue: 'Eat something. The first to be publicly ogled by Mark Wahlberg at the MTV Music Awards.

It is the first butt to earn a shout-out on the new Hollywood Squares. What can she do? It is what it is.īut - no pun intended - it is a big deal. The poor woman can't sit down for an interview without someone commenting on the size of her gluteus maximus. Entertainment Weekly, which featured her last week on its cover, hair flying, famed backside aimed at the camera, gushes that her tush is 'an erotic totem up there with Uma Thurman's lips and Pamela Anderson Lee's bust.' Playboy praises her 'rear view.' It's become something of a national obsession, this gazing at Jennifer Lopez's big, bodacious boo-tay. A heinie that gets to cavort with the likes of Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jack Nicholson and George Clooney. A distinctly ethnic fanny that is celebrated and glorified, while flaunting its Puerto Rican roots. And I like it like that.Īnd why not? To paraphrase Da Butt, a hit song of 1988, Jennifer Lopez has got a big ole crossover butt. Really, what can she say? Except that, hey, it's round. Time: Yeah, what's the big deal with your booty? But when Time magazine sits down for a Q&A with Jennifer Lopez and asks her about the ponderousness of her posterior, you've got to know that a great, seismic shift has occurred in the cultural landscape:

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