from.
The mom of two opened up earlier today about
motherhood and growing up in the Bronx.
While being honored at Variety's Power of Women
gala for her Lopez Family Foundation, she talked
about being pregnant at the same time as her sister
Lynda Lopez.
"During that time we started talking every day,
sometimes staying up until the wee hours of the
night discussing how having children would change
our lives and what we were going to do," Lopez said.
"It was just like when we were kids, sharing a
bedroom in the Bronx--sharing a bed in the Bronx
with our other sister, all three of us!--talking about
our hopes and dreams."
She continued, "We were both fortunate to be in the
care of great doctors who kept us properly informed
every step of the journey. The experience made us
think a lot about how different it was for some
people, which we knew from growing up in the
Bronx."
From those talks and the the birth of Lopez and Marc
Anthony's twins, Emme and Max, she created the
Lopez Family Foundation.
"I've been a mother for six years and there isn't a
single moment of the day that goes by that I don't
worry and every mom knows this feeling and that's
one of the reasons we started the Lopez Family
Foundation," the American Idol judge said. "We
wanted to provide every mother and child with the
health care education that we all deserve."
Fellow honoree Viola Davis also talked about growing
up poor.
"Although my childhood was filled with many happy
memories, it was also spent in abject poverty. I was
one of the 17 million kids in this country who didn't
know where their next meal was coming from," said
the How to Get Away With Murder star, who was
celebrated for her work with Hunger Is. "And I did
everything to get food.
"I've stolen for food. I jumped in huge garbage bins
with maggots for food," she continued. "I had
befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew
had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food
and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in
immense shame."
Davis said she joined the Hunger Is campaign with
the Entertainment Industry Foundation and the
Safeway Foundation because of the program's goal to
completely end hunger.
"[It] was the word 'eradicate,' get rid of--not by 30
percent, not by 20 percent, not by 50 percent, but to
do away with because everyone should be a child
and should grow up and have a chance at the
American dream," she said. "I'm very honored to
have this award...And really it is my honor to serve."
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