Actress Jennifer Lopez: Boyfriend Casper Smart Is a ‘Good Egg’

After her highly publicized split from husband Marc Anthony last summer after seven years of marriage, great actress,pop singer and superstar Jennifer Lopez could have taken her love life in a few different directions. She could have played the real field,could have sworn off men for a little few years,and could have even reconciled with Anthony, the father of her twin 4-year-olds (though he was a partner many thought was a mismatch from the start). Instead the 42-year-old pop singer, movie actress, and reality show judge jumped right back into a monogamous relationship, and has had the public enthralled ever since thanks to the fact the guy,a backup dancer named Casper Smart,is just 24 years old. (Would a man in his 40s have caused this kind of frenzy if he dated a woman 18 years his junior? Of course not.It's a really double standard for sure, but we can debate sexism another time.Since getting together with the very tattooed Smart a few months ago,the couple has been spotted everywhere together from the "American Idol" set to Carnival in Brazil to a fashion shoot in Miami but Lopez has stayed mostly mum on the subject of her new love. In the April issue of Vogue, however,she gives us a little insight into why she's so smitten.

"He's adorable. But you already see that,"Lopez tells the reporter. When he mentions that Smart seems very loving and sweet, she agrees. "He is. He really is. He's a good egg. I don't want to talk about it too much. It's my private thing."