Jennifer Lopez.Photo:Dave Benett/Getty Images
Dave Benett/Getty Images
Jennifer Lopez’stwins aren’t afraid to tell their mom how they really feel.
“They said, ‘Is this you, Mommy?’ " Lopez recalled. “I’m like, “Yeah, this is an album I did 18 years ago.' I played them another song and asked them if they liked it, and they said yes, and I said, ‘I wrote this.'”
“And then they’re like, ‘Yeah, we like this more than the music you make now,’ " she shared, laughing. “Ouch. But a good ouch.”
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Jennifer Lopez with her twins.Jennifer Lopez Instagram
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Lopez shares her twins with exMarc Anthony. She is married to actorBen Affleck, 51, who shares his three kids — Violet, 18, Seraphina Rose, 15, and Samuel, 11 — with exJennifer Garner, 51.
Looking back at her 2012 “Dancing Again World Tour” in conversation withTravel + Leisurein December, Lopez saidone of the best parts was being ableto bring twinsMaxandEmme, then 4, along with her.
“It gave the kids the opportunity to see the world,” she told the outlet. “The kids got to see South America, Europe, all over the United States, Asia, and all different places.”
“So they got to see all of this at a very young age and I always thought, ‘What an amazing thing to do when you’re only 4 years old,’ " Lopez continued.
It was a vast difference from her own upbringing in the Bronx, something that she was happy to be able to provide for her kids.
“They came back from that trip saying, ‘Can we go back to Singapore next year?’ Where someone like me, who grew up in the Bronx, never had things like that,” she said.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the Los Angeles Special Screening Of “Marry Me” on February 08, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Frazer Harrison/Getty
Frazer Harrison/Getty
During an appearance onLive with Kelly and Markin May, theMotheractress opened up about parenting teens with her husband.
“It’s almost five teenagers!” Lopez told the hosts. “The younger is 11, so he’s not quite, but pre-teen!”
When Ripa teased those years were “worse than teens,” Lopez insisted, “he’s an angel.”
Lopez continued, “It’s a time when they are individuation, and they are challenging everything you say and everything you do and everything you are, and that’s what it is. And you have to kind of just ride the waves.”
“I feel like it’s surfing. I’m riding the waves, and then it’s like, ‘Oops, I just got knocked over!’ Now, I’m back, I’m back!”
source: people.com
