She’s not just Jenny from the block — she’s an iHeartRadio icon.
Jennifer Lopez accepted the Icon Award at Tuesday night’s iHeartRadio Music Awards, complete with a stunning performance of her greatest hits and most iconic looks modeled by drag queens.
Portrayed by Billy Porter, drag queens have strutted the stage in memorable J.Lo looks over the years.
“The word for tonight is ‘iconic,'” he called out on stage while dressed in an all-pink ensemble.
Images and videos of Lopez flashed across screens on stage while the drag queens rocked similar outfits.
Billy Porter rocked a monochromatic moment as the show started. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
When Lopez took the stage herself, she donned a white fur coat with “Equality” written on it on the train and finally took it off as she performed “On My Way,” her latest song from her movie, “Marry Me,” which followed from “do it right.”
Lopez promoted equality, both in her outfit and on stage.REUTERS
In true J.Lo fashion, the “On The Floor” singer shed her fur to show off her stunning dance moves in an all-black number, complete with sparkly arm-length gloves.
The drag queens strutted around the center of the stage in Lopez’s best looks. Getty Images for iHeartRadio
The Icon Award, LL Cool J said earlier in the night while presenting it to J.Lo, is reserved for a true icon, or someone who has changed pop culture so much that it would be “impossible” to imagine them without them .
“An artist so iconic you only have to hear three letters to know who she is: JLO,” he said as the crowd cheered, followed by a montage of her rise to stardom, from her beginnings as a dancer , then as an actress and as a chart-top musician.
Over the years, J.Lo has served many iconic looks and paid homage to them in her performance with the Icon Award. Getty Images for iHeartRadio
“I wish I could tell you that awards are the most important thing to me, but I’m not,” she said, although she appreciated “the shiny things.” “But that’s not why I’m doing this. It’s not the most important thing for me.”
Really, she continued, she’s doing it for “you,” gesturing at people in the audience. Love, appreciation and kindness from her fans are the most important thing, she added.
The performance came after she accepted her award as a true icon. Getty Images for iHeartRadio
Between pauses in audience applause and choruses of “I love you” from the crowd, she expressed her gratitude to her fans for allowing her to do what she loves every day.
With J.Lo in the spotlight, the camera panned to actor Ben Affleck, her current flame, who stood in the audience alongside his son Samuel, 10, and Lopez’s daughter Emme, 14, and beamed as she took the stage.
She performed her latest song from the new rom-com “Marry Me” as well as “Get Right”. Getty Images for iHeartRadio
She said she couldn’t have imagined the life she would live “as a little girl growing up in the Bronx,” thanked her fans for “making that dream come true” and vowed “never.” , never to be taken for granted. ”
As she approached the microphone, she said in shock, “Oh my god!” REUTERS
“So I want to thank each and every one of you for believing in me when others didn’t, even when I didn’t,” she said. “Thank you for teaching me who I really am.”
“Icon,” she said of her newfound title, stands for “I can overwind negativety.”