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True Love (Spanish: Amor Verdadero) is a book written by the American entertainer Jennifer Lopez. A hardcover edition of the book was published in English and Spanish on November 4, 2014, by Celebra, a division of the Penguin Group. A portion of the proceeds from True Love goes to the Lopez Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Lopez that is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women and children.[1]

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Background and development

While on her first headlining concert tour Dance Again World Tour, Lopez began writing what she described as "a diary of the year I went on tour".[2] To her surprise, as the tour progressed, she came to the realization that what she was writing was a book. Lopez was nervous about writing about certain topics for the book, but later realized that in doing so, she could have a chance to save others from "suffering their own bumps and bruises".[2] According to Lopez, she had to do a lot of "soul searching and praying", as she did not want it to be "mistaken for anything other than it was", which is "sharing something I learned with people I could help."[2] In True Love, Lopez also discusses suffering from low self-esteem issues, partly as a result of her being in the public eye.[3][4][5] Louise Hay's book, You Can Heal Your Life, is mentioned in the book, and her meeting with the author, as a major guide in working on herself and in writing True Love itself.

The book was officially announced on May 19, 2014, by Celebra, a division of the Penguin Group.[1] About it, Lopez said: “Writing 'True Love' has been a deeply cathartic, personal, and vulnerable experience. If it were not for the love and courage given to me by my children, this story wouldn’t have been possible. While I struggled with the decision of whether or not to release this book, I recognized that if it could touch even just one person then it would honestly become one of the most fulfilling endeavors of my life."[1] Lopez initially did not intend to include content about her recent divorce from Marc Anthony in True Love, but said "the book evolved into something different than what I had intended it to be because of what I went through".[6]

Reception

True Love reached number seven on The New York Times Best Seller list, and number five on the Hardcover non-fiction chart.[7]

In a review, Elise De Los Santos of RedEye remarked, "Like a broken record, she repeats her “love yourself” mantra again and again throughout the book, which devolves at certain points into a one-sided life-coaching session." Santos, however, also noted that "Her strongest suit is showing the human side of the celebrity tabloid fodder we all eat up."[8]


References

  1. THR Staff (May 19, 2014). "Jennifer Lopez to Release Her First Book in October". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
  2. Gray, Mark; Lewis, Raha (May 19, 2014). "Jennifer Lopez on Her New Book: Do I Put This Out There?". People. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
  3. "Jennifer Lopez: "Love yourself" - Message in new book". Chicago Sun-Times. November 5, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  4. Tess Katz, Emily (November 5, 2014). "How Jennifer Lopez Turned Hitting 'Rock Bottom' Into A Memoir". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  5. Peterson, Jacques (November 15, 2014). "Jennifer Lopez Is Now a New York Times Best-Selling Author". Popdust. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  6. De Los Santos, Elise (November 19, 2014). "Book Review: J.Lo's 'True Love' is a broken record, but listen anyway". RedEye. Tribune Company. Retrieved January 1, 2015.

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