There’s no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they’re anything less than amazing. That’s crazy. If anything, you’re even more amazing!

Lopez’s remark pushes back against ageist and sexist assumptions that women lose value or desirability as they age—specifically around the culturally loaded milestone of turning forty. By calling the idea “crazy,” she frames the stigma as irrational rather than inevitable. The pivot—“If anything, you’re even more amazing!”—recasts aging as accumulation: more experience, self-knowledge, resilience, and confidence. In a celebrity culture that often polices women’s appearance and “youth,” the quote functions as affirmation and empowerment, encouraging women to treat midlife not as decline but as a period of heightened capability and worth.