{"id":704,"date":"2006-12-04T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/12\/is-j-lo-turning-to-scientology-for.html"},"modified":"2006-12-04T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T08:08:00","slug":"is-j-lo-turning-to-scientology-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/12\/is-j-lo-turning-to-scientology-for.html","title":{"rendered":"Is J. Lo Turning to Scientology for Baby Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/\/imgs\/blogs\/061204_jlo_ic.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:8px\">Celebrities may have personal assistants, trainers, make-up artists and stylists, but many of them are just like their average American counterparts&#8211;they have a hard time conceiving. In 1995, &#8220;Days of Our Lives&#8221; star Diedre Hall chronicled her struggle with infertility in a made-for-TV movie called &#8220;Never Say Never: The Diedre Hall Story.&#8221; More recently &#8220;The Internet&#8217;s Most Downloaded Woman,&#8221; Cindy Margolis, went public with her conception conundrums.<\/p>\n<p>With the tabloid\u2019s latest overwhelming obsession with the &#8220;bumpwatch,&#8221; even stars who claim to have conceived the old fashioned way spark speculation: Tongues wagged when Julia Roberts became pregnant with twins at age 36, many &#8220;experts&#8221; speculating that the star had to be on fertility meds.<\/p>\n<p>So with all the prenatal peer pressure, who can blame singer, actress, and fashionista Jennifer Lopez for allegedly turning to a less conventional method to get pregnant: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/index\/index_10042.html\">scientology<\/a>. An insider close to the entertainer tells Life &amp; Style magazine that Leah Remini, J. Lo&#8217;s good friend, &#8220;King of Queens&#8221; star, and scientologist, &#8220;confided to Jennifer that the religion helped her conceive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s starting to understand the cleansing process. It&#8217;s all about putting the energy where you want it,&#8221; the insider said.<\/p>\n<p>J. Lo, 37, isn&#8217;t the first celebrity to explore &#8220;alternative&#8221; fetility treatments. Sharon Stone reportedly tried traditional African fertility dances and, according to recent reports, Madonna gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/tm_objectid=15515468&amp;method=full&amp;siteid=94762&amp;headline=exclusive--58--madonna-baby-bid-name_page.html\">Ayurvedic pills<\/a> from India a try to conceive at the age of 46.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t expect J. Lo and Marc Anthony to become the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/whoswho\/scientology_couples_intro.html\">Scientology power couple<\/a> ala Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes or John Travolta and Kelly Preston. The article goes on to say that husband &#8220;Marc [Anthony], a devout Catholic, isn&#8217;t into the religion but doesn&#8217;t mind his wife studying it: &#8216;He&#8217;s willing to let Jen do what she needs to make things happen.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities may have personal assistants, trainers, make-up artists and stylists, but many of them are just like their average American counterparts&#8211;they have a hard time conceiving. 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