Jennifer Lopez Speaks at Grameen America's "Raising Latina Voices" Event as Ben Affleck Joins Her

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Jennifer Lopez helped Grameen America's "Raising Latina Voices" event, held connected Sept. 17 connected the Backlot astatine Universal Studios successful Los Angeles.

An eyewitness tells E! News that Ben Affleck was besides successful attendance to support his wife, who spoke to implicit 400 Latina entrepreneurs and promoted her latest philanthropic project Limitless Labs' partnership with Grameen America, which aims to empower Latina-owned tiny businesses.

"What I saw increasing up was that it was very, precise hard for radical similar me, low-income Latinos, particularly women, to get entree to capital," Jennifer shared with the crowd. "In fact, we stay sixty percent little apt to get loans from nationalist banks, and that is fundamentally unfair and fundamentally un-American, and it made the committedness of the American imagination consciousness partially hollow. That's wherefore I'm present today, alongside Grameen, to alteration that."

The Marry Me star, who rocked a chic off-white suit by Fendi astatine the event, vowed to "make that committedness existent for everyone" by making definite "people who look similar maine oregon travel from places similar wherever I travel from person the aforesaid accidental to get wealth to commencement their ain concern and marque their dreams travel true."

JLo continued, "Don't springiness up, ever. Listen but beryllium strong. "Be benignant but beryllium resolute. Be generous but beryllium firm. Be caring but beryllium professional. Be unfastened but person boundaries. Above all, beryllium honest. We don't request a handout, we request a manus up,"

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Jennifer—who shares 14-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex Marc Anthony—also shared the "best advice" she tin springiness her kids, which is "you tin beryllium whoever you judge you tin be."

She said, "Find that successful yourself and don't springiness up. Learn from radical who person done it well, past instrumentality those ideas and innovate and refine them and marque them your own. And perceive to your parents, we aren't rather arsenic clueless arsenic we look erstwhile you're 14."

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Jennifer impassioned quality comes 1 period aft she and Ben exchanged vows astatine a lavish wedding astatine the actor's property successful Georgia. The mates primitively joined successful a private ceremonial successful Las Vegas successful July.

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