The Ups and Downs of J.Lo, Drew Barrymore and Sir Paul

June 17 -- I see the bright colors, hear the people whooping and hollering and think, "This is gonna be great."

Then, once I'm in that line running my hands along the grotesquely unsanitary steel dividers, I really look at the thing and I fall apart. First it's the racing heart that I can clearly see through my shirt, then the lip sweat, the palm sweat and the stomach flips. I don't tell the friends who are with me that I'm dying inside, for I fear their chiding and mockery almost as much as I do the behemoth mass of metal that has now become the dreaded monster that lives under my bed.

"It's only a ride," I tell myself — one that I'm so afraid to take. It's the same thing I tell myself every time I start to fall in love.

J.Lo’s Woes

If it's so difficult for the Average Jo/Joann to fall in love and maintain a relationship, imagine what it's like for a superstar. Talk about an amusement park ride! Regular people deal with the normal trepidations — "Will I get hurt? What if this isn't it? We're so different, but it feels so right." Blah, blah, blah.

Now, I suppose celebs deal with that too; after all, they may be famous, but they are human (OK, maybe not Madonna). The additional problems celebrity poses are considerable when love is in the air. Imagine what happens when one partner is famous and the other is not. This introduces a lack of self-esteem for the non-famous of the two. Couple that with outside pressures, constant travel, adoration and idolization, no privacy, no time, no anonymity, more money than they know how to count, really no normalcy.

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It is with all this explained that I say, "I feel bad for J.Lo."

With the whole Puffy debacle behind her, Ms. Lopez was fortunate enough to meet a new man. They fell in love, married.

All seemed right in Jennifer's world and then boom! — eight months in, they separate. The rumored reason: Cris Judd just couldn't handle her stardom.

I have to wonder how truthful this is. He couldn't have possibly thought she was on a downward spiral and it was going to get better. She's big and getting bigger. If she sneezes, they make it into a song, a video and inspiration for a new line of J.Lo tissues.