Jennifer Lopez - Lopez's Dancing And Singing Once Got Her Fired

JENNIFER LOPEZ is thrilled she's been able to secure a career singing and dancing - because the same talents were responsible for her getting fired from one of her first jobs.

The AIN'T IT FUNNY singer had a string of jobs in her native New York when she was a teen, including assistant positions in a jeans store and a perfume store. But her love for singing and dancing soon left her out of work.

She says, "I kept getting fired! I got fired from the jeans store because I kept dancing around too much.

"It was one of those hip jeans stores where they sold like LEE's and LEVI's and all that kinda stuff.

"So they would play good music in there; young music at the time, like freestyle and stuff like that. I loved it, so I would sing and dance.

"The manager just basically called me over and she was like, 'Look, it's okay if you bop your head to the music, but you can't be dancing up and down the aisles.'

"I was like, 'Am I dancing up and down the aisles? I'm sorry!' But I couldn't stop and finally she just fired me. She was like, 'You have to go!'"