Is she or isn’t she?
J.Lo kept coy when first asked if she was expecting, and that air of mystique continued Tuesday as rumors swirled that a pregnant Jennifer Lopez had checked in to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.
Hospital officials denied that the Bronx-born superstar who is expecting twins was there. A hospital source, however, said she was “in the house” and had checked in under a false name.
Lopez, 38, and her husband, the singer Marc Anthony, live in Brookville and announced in November they were expecting.
Rumors circulated throughout the hospital Tuesday that Lopez, who has not announced her due date, was there.
Visitors to the hospital in recent days have reported hearing staff talk about “the J.Lo room,” and — no surprise — it’s a little more lavish than what you find in the average maternity ward. The brand-new room, probably located on the existing maternity floor, is said to feature wood flooring instead of standard-issue hospital linoleum, and two flat-screen TVs.
Officials Tuesday repeatedly denied she was at the hospital, and a representative for Lopez could not immediately be reached for comment.
“She is not in the hospital,” said hospital spokeswoman Adina Conn. “She is not here under a pseudonym.”
But rumors circulated on the Internet over the past two days that Lopez was getting ready to give birth. On Monday, USmagazine.com reported that Anthony’s representatives said that online reports that Lopez was in labor were “not true.”
“We have been getting the same phone calls since last week,” the rep told Us. “Everybody figures it is happening around now, so they have started throwing out the story hoping they will be right and be the one to break the news, but it isn’t yet.”
Lopez and Anthony have been married since June 2004.
Meanwhile, the parking lot was quiet at the hospital Tuesday, and business seemed as usual.
Lopez is apparently having twins, as Real LI has noted — a boy and a girl. And the mother-to-be has set up one of three nurseries at the Brookville home.
Baby boutique Petit Tresor was designing the nurseries on Long Island and in Los Angeles and Miami with “traditional sleigh cribs and Ultrasuede gliders from Europe,” as well as “silk and organza sheet sets” with the babies’ names embroidered on the linens “later on.”
Says a source: “She’s very involved with everything. Her taste is very elegant … very luxurious.”