Jennifer Lopez Says She Had "Very Little Help" Raising Her Twins

Jennifer Lopez Details Her Emotions About Her Twins Max, Emme Going Away to College

Jennifer Lopez ain't your mama, but she is to kids Emme and Max.

The "On the Floor" singer—who shares the 18-year-old twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony—reflected on her "crazy" motherhood journey amid her children's high school graduation, marveling at how she juggled parenting duties on top of her booming career.

"Now, I can really look at my life, appreciate it for what it is and what I’ve created for myself and be really happy," J.Lo shared on the June 15 episode of the SmartLess podcast. "Both my kids got into all their colleges. They both got scholarships and they're going where they want to go."

"I was like, ‘You did that s--t all by yourself,'" the 56-year-old told hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. "That’s great. Like, ‘You had very little help,' you know?"

Lopez was married to Anthony (real name Marco Antonio Muñiz) for seven years before their 2011 breakup. The pair finalized their divorce in 2014, agreeing to joint legal and physical custody of their twins.

Since then, Anthony—who was already dad to kids Arianna, 31, Chase, 35, Cristian, 25, and Ryan, 22, from previous relationships when he married Lopez in 2004—has continued to expand his family.

He and wife Nadia Ferreira welcomed son Marco in 2023, before announcing that they're expecting their second baby—Anthony's eighth overall child—earlier this year.

"I’m enjoying every second of it," the Grammy winner told E! News in February. "I’m extremely fortunate."

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Meanwhile, Lopez was married to Ben Affleck for two years, during which she blended her family with the Argo actor's kids Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 14, from his marriage to ex Jennifer Garner.

"It's been a really kind of emotional transition," the Wedding Planner alum told Today in 2023, one year before her breakup with Affleck, "but at the same time all your dreams coming true."

But despite moving on from Anthony, Lopez will always have a special place for him in her heart. As she put it during a 2017 appearance on The View, "We’re great friends. And we’re parents together."

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