Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at the premiere of “The Flash”.Photo:Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty
Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty
Jennifer Lopezis opening up about how she’s shielding her kids from the scrutiny that comes with being a public figure.
“And you can’t protect them from that, right?” Lowe asks, referring to the things her kids might read online about Lopez and husbandBen Affleck.
Lopez shares twinsMaxandEmme, who celebrate their 16th birthday next week, with ex Marc Anthony. Affleck shares histhree kids— Violet, 18, Seraphina Rose, 15, and Samuel, 11 — with exJennifer Garner, 51.
“We can’t because they’re techie kids. Like every other kid, they’re on their phone constantly. They search everything. The minute you say any new word to them, they look at any new name, any new anything,” she explains.
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Jennifer Lopez with Max and Emme.Jennifer Lopez Instagram
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“Any new information they want to know what it is, and they know they can. And so they’re much more informed and it’s totally into the meme culture and think it’s hysterical,” Lopez continues. “And now that they’re a little bit older, we try not to make it such a big thing in our house because their lives are so much more than the fact that we are their parents in that way, that we’re famous.”
Adding that her kids have been handling fame “really well,” the proud mom says “the five of them have had a difficult kind of… I wouldn’t say difficult, but kind of this surrealistic kind of upbringing where they’ve been watched from the time they were very small.”
“And so them becoming who they are in the public eye could be very, very hard for them. And I am sure it is at times even more than they share with us, but they handle it very beautifully.”
Jennifer Lopez with Emme and Max in 2012.FOX/Getty
FOX/Getty
During an appearance onLive with Kelly and Markin May, theMotheractress opened up about parenting teens with her husband.
“It’salmost 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.”
Lopez opened up about the twins' teen years in an appearance onLive with Kelly and Ryanin early 2022.
“They’re amazing, first of all,” said Lopez. “And they’re just now, they’re adults. They’re like little adults and they have their own lives and they have all their own ideas about the world already and they love to kind of like, show you that they know things.”
The actress said her twins are also constantly teaching her new things.
“I feel like I learn so much from them. They keep me so abreast with the world and what’s happening now and how kids are thinking,” she shared. “It’s a whole different thing. It’s a different world!”
source: people.com
