Was asked by director to remove shirt and show my breasts: Jennifer Lopez

Los Angeles: Singer-actor Jennifer Lopez has revealed that she was once asked by a director to remove her top during an audition in the beginning of her career.

The actor said she flatly refused even though she was afraid of rejecting the director.

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"I haven't been abused in the way some women have. But have I been told by a director to take off my shirt and show my b***s? Yes, I have. But did I do it? No, I did not," she told Harper's Bazaar magazine.

"When I did speak up, I was terrified. I remember my heart beating out of my chest, thinking, 'What did I do? This man is hiring me!' It was one of my first movies. But in my mind, I knew the behaviour wasn't right. It could have gone either way for me. But I think ultimately the Bronx in me was like, 'Nah, we're not having it.'"

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Lopez, 48, has spoken out in support of the Time's Up movement and wore black in solidarity with them at the Golden Globes red carpet.