Jennifer Lopez has said she wasn’t surprised when people started talking about what turned out to be her baby bump - not only because she’d been subject to similar rumours for years, but because she had a “bubble gut”.

Jennifer and husband Marc Anthony finally confirmed months of baby speculation in November but told Harper’s Bazaare recently: “We’re just getting used to the fact that we’ve told everybody.”

“I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway. I was on tour with a bubble gut!”

She added she thinks she made the right choice to try to keep it a secret to start with, even though that involved making outright denials: “I do realize people want to know because they’re interested, but this is the first time I’m going through this. This is my experience and my husband’s experience, and we get to hold that for a little while.”

“Marc is a really private person, and he’s been singing onstage since he was really young. He made me realize you can be an artist, and have credibility and success, without your life being on public display 24 hours a day.”

The baby (or babies) are due in the early spring.