Jennifer Lopez claims she did NOT receive enough love as a child from her 'narcissistic' mother and 'absent' dad in her documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told!

Jennifer Lopez documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told debuted on Tuesday.

The 54-year-old actress let fans see deep inside her inner turmoil she has battled since a child growing up in the Bronx.

At the heart of the documentary and the accompanying musical movie also released - titled This Is Me... Now - is Lopez's demons.

Her biggest issue is as a middle child - she has two sisters, Leslie and Lynda - she did not get enough love, which caused her to turn into a very hard worker so she would get noticed. 

'I wasn't the oldest and I wasn't the youngest, I was in the middle,' she says with regret. 

And Jennifer also brought up it was hard having a 'narcissistic' mother who was 'the life of the party' and an absentee dad who worked all night and slept all day. He was employed as a computer technician.

Her parents Guadalupe Rodriguez and David Lopez did not appear in the documentary though they were seen in flashback photos. 

Jennifer Lopez 's documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told debuted on Tuesday. The actress let fans see deep inside her inner turmoil she has battled since a child growing up in the Bronx

Lopez and her father David Lopez in the 00s

It is surprising she would remark her mother is a narcissist - a personality disorder that is often viewed as unflattering - as she spends a lot of time with her.

Lopez has addressed her mother's over-the-top personality before in a previous documentary, Halftime from 2022.

'My mom is a super complicated woman and she carries a lot of baggage, she wanted us to be independent and never have to rely on a man,' said Jennifer.

And the star also said that her mother beat her: 'She did what she had to do to survive, and it made her strong, but it also made her tough.

'She beat the s**t out of us.'

They also fought about Jenny going to college: 'I didn’t want to go to college — I wanted to try dance full time. So she and I had a break,' she told W magazine.

'I started sleeping on the sofa in the dance studio. I was homeless, but I told her, "This is what I have to do."'

Jennifer appears to be close to her father David, who is divorced from Guadalupe and has remarried.

During Father's Day last year Jennifer shared a post for her dad saying, 'Daddy, I love you.' He replied, 'Thank you, sweetheart, I love you more.' 

In 2016 she gushed about her father while on the Today show noting that he 'encouraged' her and always expressed how 'proud' he was of her accomplishments.

'I feel like he's always been proud since I was like running track when I was 9 or 10 years old,' she told host Hoda Kotb. 'He was like, "My daughter runs track!"... It just didn't matter to him. He was just proud of me.'

Most of the documentary was about finding true love. 

After three failed marriages and years of therapy, she worked on trying to love herself, which is really the message of these films.

She even admitted that at times she did not 'think much of myself' and it was hard to get over that.

Husband Ben Affleck also shares that there are not enough 'likes' on social media to heal that pain and Jennifer had to do the work herself.

He also mentioned lightly his own battle with alcohol as he said there is not enough alcohol in all the liquor stores in the world to take care of inner pain and the hard work had to be done.

The Hustlers actress  breaks down in tears many times during the documentary.

At one point she sobs over not being able to join ben on his press tour.

She says she feels like she works very hard only to just do an OK job - and that includes her career, marriage and kids. She has 16-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex-husband Marc Anthony, 

Luckily Ben was able to prop her up and tell her she is a real talent which helped improve her self-confidence.

She said: 'What he said and what he saw in me, and what he made me believe about myself, only comes from love.' 

She added, through tears, 'Because nobody else could have made me see that about myself. It's very moving.

'Because I didn't think much about myself and so the world didn't think much of me. That lined up.' 

Jennifer, 54, and Ben, 51, were famously engaged in the early 2000s before breaking up, only to reunite - and later marry - in July 2022.

Jennifer also spoke about how Ben served as her muse for her new album and she had her team read handwritten love letters from Ben that inspired the record. 

She said: 'We're totally different people now and we're the same and we have the same love 100 percent. Like I'd never fallen out of love with you. I had to just put it over here.'

Her crew member then responded: 'It seems like it's liberating in a sense because he loves every part of you but it's not dependent on what this album is or anything.'

The couple's love story started in 2002 when they dated while filming the movie Jersey Girl. They became engaged the following year but broke up in 2004.

Yet it was meant to be for the couple, known collectively as Bennifer, who found their way back to one another in July 2021, marrying just one year later.

They detailed the highs and lows of their rekindled romance in Jennifer's new documentary, with Ben revealed he initially asked his wife to keep their relationship offline when they decided to give things another ago.