Jennifer Lopez: ‘I Was On Tour With A Bubble Gut!’

Jennifer Lopez is preparing for motherhood, just don’t ask her about it.

“I do realize people want to know because they’re interested, but this is the first time I’m going through this,” she told Harper’s Bazaar magazine’s February issue. “ This is my experience and my husband’s experience and we get to hold that for a little while.”

Lopez has no qualms about not revealing her baby news publicly before it became obvious from the photographs of her on-tour, which highlighted her blooming belly.

“I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway,” she said. “I was on tour with a bubble gut.”

In fact, Jen’s baby bump appears to the reason she’s stayed away from the red carpet of late.

“I’m just feeling too protective to open that door right now,” she said. “It’s a Pandora’s box. It’s a destructive lifestyle to be out there. I know because I’ve lived it. Being on the cover of the tabloids every day for two years — it’s hard. You start forgetting who you really are inside.”

It appears Lopez will have plenty of time to focus on herself and motherhood — she has refused to set a date to return back to work.

“I don’t know [when I’ll go back] –- and I like that, because my life has been so planned for so many years,” she said. “Once I did the tour, I really just wanted to shut it down, and since then I’ve had to do three things, including a video. It may not sound like a lot, but you know, at this point, any woman can sympathize. It is a lot. I was ready to just sit.”