J-Lo angers animal rights group by posing in a fox fur coat

J-Lo angers animal rights group by posing in a fox fur coat Mario Testino/Vanity Fair

Jennifer Lopez has come under fire from animal rights groups by posing for Vanity Fair magazine in a white fox fur coat.

In the new issue of Vanity Fair, J-Lo, who is rumoured to have tired of being told what to wear by her soon-to-be-ex-husband, poses for photograher Mario Testino wearing nothing but the coat and a pair of gold strappy sandals.

The actress and singer has angered campaigners for years as a result of her love of furs. The magazine has confirmed that she is wearing real fur and, as a result, she has now been branded "arrogant" by animal rights group PETA.

Dan Matthews of PETA says: "People who wear fur are either ignorant or arrogant about animal suffering. J-Lo is situated firmly in the arrogant camp."

In the accompanying interview, J-Lo who split from her husband of seven years, Marc Anthony, just two weeks ago says that ending her marriage was "the hardest decision I've ever had to face".

She says: "Sometimes we don't realise that we are compromising ourselves. 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. I love myself enough to walk away from that now."

The September issue of Vanity Fair is on sale on Friday.