Vanessa Hudgens Reveals The Career Advice Jennifer Lopez Gave Her!

J.Lo to the rescue!
In a recent interview with Haute Living, Vanessa Hudgens — who turned 30 last month — opens up about the trials and tribulations of adulting.
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Although the High School Musical alum thought she figured life out when she was 25, she was sadly mistaken.
The actress confessed:

“At 25, I felt like I had life figured out. Like, ‘I’ve got this, I’m great at life; I understand how to do it.’ And then, at 27, I woke up on my birthday and felt like I had no idea who I was, what I stood for, what I was doing with my life. I felt kind of lost… I realized, ‘I am not a child anymore. I am not a teen. I am fully an adult, and there are so many responsibilities that come with that.’ I felt extremely overwhelmed.'”

Coupled with this overwhelming point in her life, in 2016, the singer lost her father to cancer.
Despite her grief, Hudgens turned tragedy into triumph, and became a stronger and wiser person.

“I felt like [the death of my father] really pushed me to expand and grow as a person, whether I liked it or not… I [now] feel like those moments are really great to have because they force you to reassess your life, what you believe in, what you stand for, who you want to be.”

While filming her latest film Second Act, Vanessa grew close to costar Jennifer Lopez, who gave her great advice about her career.

“We’d be between sets, and we’d just talk. I’d tell her about my career and where I think I’m lacking, and she’d tell me what she thinks the right steps are to get to where I want to be… She told me, ‘If you aren’t happy in a certain aspect of your career, look at who is doing what you want to be doing, and mimic it’… [Jennifer] was great at being like, ‘In order to do that, you’ve got to do this,’ and she spells it out in the most simplistic way possible. And I’d be like, ‘Oh yeah, of course, I’ll do that, and I’m going to conquer the world just like you!'”

Read the full interview HERE!
See pics of her spread (below):

[Image via Ivan Nikolov/WENN.]