{"id":34709,"date":"2021-09-13T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=200559"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:00:50","slug":"jennifer-lopez-mtv-vmas-2021","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lopez-mtv-vmas-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacing Up: Jennifer Lopez Leaves Audiences Stunned At The 2021 MTV VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK \u2013 SEPTEMBER 12: Jennifer Lopez speaks onstage during the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz\/MTV VMAs 2021\/Getty Images for MTV\/ViacomCBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Jennifer Lopez accepted the Vanguard Award at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, it was said then <\/em>that Jenny From The Block\u2019s lightening pace of achievements was simply unbelievable. Her success \u2013 believed to be at its pinnacle \u2013 was compared to her childhood where she bathed in the hum and the fumes of the Cross Bronx Expressway.<\/p>\n

The 2018 VMAs moment came before she starred in the Lorene Scarfaria-directed film Hustlers<\/em>, before her electric Super Bowl performance, before she launched her beauty brand, and before she reignited her relationship with Ben Affleck.<\/p>\n

Today, she’s in an even better place.<\/p>\n

Just days after her Cartier moment with Affleck at the Venice International Film Festival, Lopez took to the stage this evening at the 2021 MTV VMAs at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn looking so happy. The surprise appearance was to present the award for Song of the Year, which went to Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u00a0for \u201cDriver\u2019s License.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 12: (L-R) Jennifer Lopez presents the Song of the Year award for ‘Drivers License’ to Olivia Rodrigo onstage during the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/MTV VMAs 2021\/Getty Images for MTV\/ViacomCBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jennifer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 12: Jennifer Lopez speaks onstage during the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images for MTV\/ViacomCBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an embellished, black and silver mini skirt held together by laces (did I mention earlier<\/a> that the official dress code of any VMA season is lace-up anything?) and crop, Lopez looked incredible (and captioned one of her Instagram stories with \u201cBeauty has no expiration date\u201d. Indeed it does not.)<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 12: Jennifer Lopez attends the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai\/MTV VMAs 2021\/Getty Images for MTV\/ViacomCBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking about her own happiness, Lopez recently opened up to Apple Music 1\u2019s Zane Lowe. \u201cI\u2019m super happy. I know people are always wondering. How are you? What\u2019s going on? Are you okay? This is it. I\u2019ve never been better,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cAnd I want my people who care about me because I care about them so much, to know that I\u2019ve really gotten to a place in my life where I\u2019m great on my own. And I think once you get to that place, then amazing things happen to you that you never imagine in your life happening again. And so that is where I\u2019m at. And I love all the love that\u2019s coming my way right now and all of the, the good wishes. And I just want everybody to know that it\u2019s the best time. It\u2019s the best time of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strappy, stringy, sparkly for the win.<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK \u2013 SEPTEMBER 12: Jennifer Lopez speaks onstage during the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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