Jennifer Lopez opens up to ELLE about her nude pregnancy pictures

"We knew nothing was wrong with either one of us," Mrs. Marc Anthony said about not being able to get pregnant right away. "I had been checked, and he had kids already. I knew something's not ready here, in my head or in my life, and when it is, I know it's going to happen."

The singer was working during the beginning of her pregnancy, so when the grueling tour concluded, she said she really leaned on Marc, whom she married in 2004.

"We came off tour and I said 'I did the superwoman thing, I finished the tour — now I need you to take care of me. I love doing things for you; if I'm not cooking, then I'm picking out a shirt. But this is the first time in my life where I'm just going to be a little bit selfish. I don't know if I'm going to have kids again, so I want it to be a beautiful experience. I don't want to have any drama. I want to just be smiling every day.'"

Two weeks before she gave birth, Lopez says she commissioned a book of photos of herself for her hubby. "I was like, How am I going to rock this moment of my life?... I felt very womanly. Marc was in a dream. He loved it."

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