Why do people insist on getting pregnant, having babies, and then heading to divorce court before the tots are even walking yet?  They aren’t there yet,  but rumors are swirling that there is tension between Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony, and that things have gone from babies to bad times:

Rumors swirled that Lopez’s marriage was on the rocks after she showed up to the premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last week without her 8-carat diamond engagement ring, wedding band - or ever present husband, Marc Anthony (who was spotted in Las Vegas sans wedding band the weekend before).

Multiple sources confirm to to Us Weekly their marriage is at a breaking point.

“They both didn’t wear their rings on purpose,” a mutual pal of the married couple of four years (who renewed their vows in October) tells Us. “Nothing Jennifer does is without purpose.”

I believe that.  Girlfriend should get together with Mariah Carey and compare control-freak notes.  But wait…is there room in the family for two control freaks?

“He’s very, very controlling of her,” a close Anthony pal tells Us. “The skirts aren’t as short. You don’t see so much of that booty anymore.” The new Us Weekly also reports that Anthony also picks out Lopez’s clothes and keeps tabs on her phone calls.

But Lopez — who once claimed she “loved getting his opinions” — has become less interested in his approval since the birth of their 10-month-old twins, Max and Emme.

“She walks in from work, washes her hands and grabs the babies,” a longtime friend tells Us. “With him, it’s almost like, ‘Ugh, they’re crying again?’”

Yeah.  Babies cry, Marc, that’s what they do.  You should know that, since you already had kids before Jennifer came along.

It also seems that Jennifer doesn’t like the life of a housewife, like the lives of so many other little people in the world:

Another problem: Lopez — who once commanded $15 million per film — “blames Marc for her career going down the tubes,” says a mutual pal, adding that she’s bitter about the failure of their 2006 drama, El Cantante, which only grossed $7.5 million. (Her 2002 flick Maid in Manhattan earned over $94 million.)

“Jennifer looked around and said, ‘This is my life now? I’m a Long Island housewife?’” a pal says. “She hates that everything she worked for went down the tubes.”

And Marc just can’t seem to keep his mouth shut about how much his wife drives him loco:

Anthony has also been badmouthing his wife. One night after their tense family Thanksgiving in which the couple “didn’t sit together,” Anthony hit NYC hotspots Bungalow 8 and Marquee, where he was spotted with his hand on a woman’s thigh and overheard complaining about his wife to a group of women, “telling them, ‘She’s making me miserable,’” a source says.

His club spree didn’t stop there: The next night, he was photographed by TMZ.com partying sans wedding band with pal Eva Longoria Parker and Russell Crowe in Las Vegas. (A source says, “According to Jennifer, he didn’t cheat.”)

Now there’s a smart move…because, of course, nobody in the world knows who J-Lo or Marc are.  I’m sure he was totally anonymous!

If any of this is true, then it sort of blows a hole in the side of the perfect little family picture that Jennifer has tried to sell us for so long.  She and Marc were spotted out the next day going out to a lovey-dovey dinner with their rings on, but if there’s one thing J-Lo knows how it do it is manipulate and play the media.  Like the article above said, she does nothing on accident, including being “caught” without her rings on.

But what does Scientology have to do with all of this?  Well, check out this little throwaway blurb in the article:

Lopez isn’t the only one with growing resentment toward her husband. Her best friend, Leah Remini, also can’t stand him.

“It if was up to her, Leah would just break them up today,” a pal says.

Ooh.  I haven’t worked at this site for over a year and not picked up a few things here and there.  Leah Remini, if you follow the CoS, is pretty active in the Cult of Scientology.  She’s also bff’s with J-Lo.  So how does this all tie together?

Work with me here.  Back in October, I did a story on Jennifer mulling over the idea of possibly putting her kids in  Scientology classes:

The conversation turns to Scientology. “I know a lot of your friends are Scientologists,” I say. “Your father has been a Scientologist for about 20 years …”

“More than that now,” she says.

“Scientologists don’t believe in shrinks. Would you ever call on Scientology if you were having those problems again?” I ask.

“I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices.  I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It’s very helpful.  So in a sense, yeah, you do call on it.”

“Do you consider yourself a Scientologist?”

“No.”

“If you were, would you be open about it?”

“Yeah. I wouldn’t have a problem saying it because I know what it is. I have no problems with it and it really actually bothers me that people have such a negative feeling towards it.”

“That it is too exotic? Too cultish?”

“Just negative feelings.”

“Would you consider schooling Emme and Max in a Scientology school?” I ask.

“Yeah. I wouldn’t mind. Not at all. Because I know that the technologies that they have are very helpful… It’s all about communication. That’s the thing I really don’t like about talking about this. I do know so many great people who do do it, who choose it as a lifestyle and really follow it and it is their religion…I just wish that people wouldn’t judge it without knowing what it is.”

Was this a new idea in Jennifer’s head?  Nope, because she and current hubby Marc took a class in the cult as far back as December 2006:

My sources tell me that as recently as December [2006], Lopez and Anthony were taking professional business meetings at Scientology’s Celebrity Center in Hollywood.

Anthony is said to have taken the “purification” course, a hopped-up sauna that supposedly “cures” all ills. Lopez may have invested in the IRS-sanctioned religion thanks to infertility issues and difficulties in the couple’s marriage.

What’s very clear is that Lopez and Anthony’s sudden friendship with chief celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise is no accident. Other than belonging to the expensive pay-as-you-go religion, Cruise and the Lopez-Anthonys would have nothing in common.

From what I’m told, Lopez and Anthony entered Scientology with the help of Angelo Pagan, the husband of “King of Queens” actress Leah Remini. Both Pagan and Remini — mostly the former — have taken dozens of pricey courses in L. Ron Hubbard’s creation.

In keeping with Scientology’s Hollywood deal in which members hire each other, Pagan has had parts in John Travolta’s “Swordfish” and Jenna Elfman’s “Dharma & Greg,” as well as in several episodes of “King of Queens.” [...]

Scientology is notable for recruiting stars at low points in their careers or personal lives, preying on uncertainty, instability or just plain fear by promising to fix life issues.

A source says that they were invited to meet Lopez and Anthony at the Celebrity Center where they were ensconced in four-star digs. There, Anthony talked excitedly about the “purification” program while Lopez discussed career matters.

“They’re in,” a source said. “There’s no doubt about it.”

Lopez’s father has been a Scientologist for 20 years, as recently revealed.

So not only do you have the friend angle, but the father angle.  Now…reread the first portion of this article.  See where J-Lo is frustrated with being just a housewife, where she’s irritated that her career has stalled, where she’s blaming Marc for her professional life going down the toilet?  Well, Leah felt that way too.  And here’s what she did about it:

This is Leah Remini Writing you again. Some of you may know me from the TV show “King of Queens”, but what is more important is that I am now OT V and at one point I was a very stalled Clear. A lot of people helped me to get OT, and I decided I was going to turn around and help every Clear make it to OT. A couple of months ago, you received a letter from me about an event I was holding to help people move who were stalled on the Bridge. Obviously you did not come and for some reason, feel you are not indeed a “stalled Clear”. Let me start with the definition of
“stalled”. Not that you are-but who knows? STALL: To slow down or halt the progress of. (American Heritage Student Dictionary). If you are not aggressively moving on your next step-your next “Gradechart Action”, you are stalled. Look at the Gradechart, it says: Clear-Sunshine Rundown-Solo Course Part 1-OT Preparations and so on up the chart. If you are not on your next step as per this chart, and are not on a prerequisite for Solo, you are stalled-plain and simple.

[...] So, it is up to you now to be honest with yourself and look at your own progress up the Bridge. Do you ever wonder why you are not moving? No? Then that’s an outpoint. You are Clear, you are special, why have you not moved? Whatever the reason, there is an answer and a solution. I don’t care what it is: you were not serviced right or fast enough, people don’t get you, you have other things going on that we don’t get, you are helping others, you are upset, you haven’t been acked, your life is actually going well, your life is not going well, there’s no money there’s no time, if you were a millionaire you would do it no problem, you are waiting for your 2D to make it, there’s no urgency, you are not sure if you have what it takes to be OT, you hated your auditor, you don’t like the parking situation…WHATEVER IT IS, IT IS STOPPING YOU AND THERE IS A REASON FOR THAT! [...]

You are in charge and responsible for what you do this lifetime. Not being on course and not doing your next step is getting you where? Play out the scenario-there you are being a Clear, being right about whatever it is that is keeping you from being on course and doing your next step. Years go by, you are making money, you have a nice house and a nice car. You spent time with those friends you wanted to hang out with, you cleaned out the garage, you traveled. You do all the things that were keeping you from taking your next step. Then what? Then you are going to move? I hate to say this but you are lying to yourself. You need to move now, regardless of your situation. Are you just going to keep in place what you have had sitting there for lifetimes to come? Do you think we are just going to be here forever? So I say knock off any critical thought right now that you may have about me, the orgs, your FSM, your auditor, anyone else, and contact us so we can help you. All you need to do is just reach once and we can help. LRH was very clear on what we need to do- obviously in some way you are out of agreement with that. That again, is an outpoint, and we can help you with that.

Now, just what is the definition of “clear“?

In Dianetics and Scientology, Clear is stated to be a condition in which a person is free of the unwanted influence of engrams, unwanted emotions or painful traumas which are not readily available to the awareness of present time. A person in this condition, then referred to as a “Clear”, would be a person cleared of those negative influences. Such a person is said to be “at cause over” (in control of) their “mental energy” (their thoughts), and able to think clearly even when faced with the very situation which in earlier times caused them grave difficulty.

Okay.  Jennifer’s career is stalled and she feels frustrated in her boring life.  Now, I have no way of knowing if J-Lo and/or Marc are truly Scientologists, and if they are, if they are “clear” or not.   However, as we have seen in the case of Tom Cruise, a Scientologist surrounds himself with other Scientologists as close friends.  People who are not Scientologists are tolerated for a while, but are usually eventually cut out of the person’s life.  J-Lo and Leah are bestest buds while Leah wants Marc out like yesterday.  See a connection?

Basically, it’s a pretty safe assumption to make that if J-Lo is total friends with Leah Remini, then J-Lo must at the very least be open to the teachings of the CoS.  And Leah is pretty adamant that you (yes, you) can be helped in every little thing if only you’d join the CoS…your infertile womb will bear fruit, your stalled career will be rejuvenated, your stale life will become fresh again.  Jennifer has already birthed out two babies after years of fertility problems…now she’s bored with playing house and wants her crappy career to be jump-started.  Enter Leah Remini, conveniently voicing her lousy opinion of Marc and how she’d like Jennifer and Marc to split up.  Maybe Marc decided he didn’t want to waste his millions on a failed novelist’s con game?  Perhaps that is the true reason behind their rumored breakup, and the whole “he’s controlling/she’s controlling” thing just grew out of that?

It’s all speculation and conjecture at this point (and I’m sure Dawn will come along later and clear up some points which I might have gotten wrong), but the parallels are not hard to draw.  Time will tell, but I won’t be surprised if it turns out J-Lo is a Scientologist after all.  Hey, I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’.

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