J. Lo & Marc On The Paparazzi Attention: ‘You Feel Like Prey!’

It seems like a lifetime ago that Jennifer Lopez was dating Ben Affleck as a paparazzi melee erupted around the couple. Now, happily married to Marc Anthony, Lopez has mostly been left alone, but as she told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson, Jennifer can understand what Britney Spears is going through.

“I would assume somebody like you can empathize with what she is going though because of the intense media pressure,” Shaun asked Lopez.

“Absolutely,” Jennifer replied. “Scrutiny — very, very difficult.”

“What does it feel like? Like when it was at its most intense what did that feel like?” Shaun asked the couple.

“It feels disgusting,” Marc replied. “It feels disgusting, period! You feel like prey. You feel like a slab of meet.”

When J. Lo and Marc first started dating, they couldn’t go anywhere with out being followed. Now they live their life with much more freedom from the lens.

“You can [put a stop to it],” Lopez told Access. “Actually, he helped me with how to do that and you don’t entertain it.”

“You don’t play that game,” Marc added. “You don’t feed the beast!”

“Feeding the Beast” is how Marc and Jennifer refer to over aggressive paparazzi who stake out their home.

“If I am going to go out to the gym I’ll make sure they don’t get a picture,” Jennifer said. “If they’re gonna hang out at my house all day they’re not gonna make any money. They’re gonna have to go down the road to somebody else’s house.”

“Why,” Shaun asked. “Because you take a different exit?”

“Yeah,” Jennifer replied. “We are creative with how we do it. They just won’t get a shot, however we can do that. People keep buying the pictures. It’s a machine!”

A machine with an elaborate network of spies.

“[They have] this whole network of walkie talkies and blocking streets,” Anthony said. “Unbelievable!”

The result of keeping their private life “private,” is a committed 3-year marriage and their upcoming En Concierto Tour, kicking off in Atlantic City, September 29.

And did we mention Marc’s tattoo?

Marc has one on his wrist.

“He’s had that for a while,” Jennifer said of the ink he had done of her name, during the first year of their marriage.

“It’s so I can see it.And when I’m like that on stage ya’ll can read it,” Marc noted.

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