Jennifer Lopez (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t just considered an expert when it comes to doling out legal rulings from the highest court in the land. As it turns out, thanks to her lengthy marriage of 50+ years to the late Martin Ginsburg, she’s apparently also considered an expert when it comes to doling out relationship advice from the court of love.
Earlier this summer, global pop star Jennifer Lopez felt the need to consult with Ginsburg in her search for marriage advice prior to making it official with her fiancé, baseball star Alex Rodriguez. Over the weekend at an event sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Notorious RBG revealed that she took a meeting with J. Lo in her Supreme Court chambers, where they “had a very nice visit” and that Lopez “mostly wanted to ask if [Ginsburg] had any secret about a happy marriage.” CNN has the details:
“So what was your secret to a happy marriage? Did you pass on your mother-in-law’s secret?” Ginsburg was asked on Saturday by NPR’s Nina Totenberg.
The justice laughed and then shared the advice she received on her own wedding day.
“On the day I was married, my mother in law — I was married in her home — she took me aside and said she wanted to tell me what was the secret of a happy marriage,” Ginsburg said Saturday.
The “good advice” Ginsburg shared with the audience has helped her not just in her marriage, but in “every workplace, including the good job [she has] now.”
In case you’re wondering, Ginsburg told Lopez that “[i]t helps sometimes to be a little deaf,” and truer words have never been spoken when it comes to marriage advice.
RBG was married for more than 50 years. J.Lo asked her for marriage advice [CNN]
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