BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Newly single mother of two, Jennifer Lopez, recently explained her decision to divorce from Marc Anthony on the September cover of Vanity Fair.

“To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself- if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me,” the “American Idol” host said.

Lopez explained her decision to separate from Marc Anthony, saying “Sometimes it doesn’t work… and that’s sad.”

She told Vanity Fair that both she and Anthony wanted their seven-year marriage to last longer. She felt as though her marriage was robbing her of her identity: “Sometimes we don’t realize that we are compromising ourselves.”

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony announced their shocking split on July 9, 2011. Married three times previously, Lopez also divulged that the divorce was the hardest decision she has ever made.