Love Does Cost A Thing ...

In the movie, No Smoking, there is an interesting dialogue sequence between John Abraham and Ayesha Takia. It began when John asked Ayesha, “What gift do you want on our wedding anniversary?” Ayesha firmly replied, “Divorce!” Then John said, “I don’t have that budget.”

Really, nowadays divorce is getting too expensive. If you really want to get the real picture, ask Rupert Murdoch who got divorced from her wife Anna Murdoch with the settlement of a whipping 1.7 billion dollars - the most expensive divorce in the history!

And of course, there are Michael Jordan, Neil Diamond, Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg who have signed a handsome check (their handsome look wasn’t enough) to settle their divorces. Maybe that’s why, Tommy Manville joked, “She cried and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.”



But a woman paying her husband more than 10 million dollars to settle her divorce was unheard till Jennifer Lopez made it "loud." Her divorce to her second husband, Chris Judd, cost her $ 15 million. Surprised? Come on, today she even doesn’t need to act or sing to earn money. Just showing off her new-born baby’s photographs on magazine cover, she earns million dollars.



But if you rewind her life to the early 90s, it was totally different. Landed in New York with no shelter and food, she started performing in manhattans night clubs. Later in 1990, she went on to become a "Fly Girl (back-up dancer)" on the Fox's comedy show In Living Color; though she has been rejected twice by the Fox. In 1993, suddenly the time started forwarding with a new tango, when as a back-up dancer she appeared on Janet Jackson's video "That's the Way Love Goes." And today, she is the only artist in the history to have a No.1 movie (The Wedding Planner) and a No.1 album (J. Lo) in the same week.



It's right: when we fall in a river, we are no longer a fisherman; we are swimmer.