Jennifer Lopez opened up about the toll her celebrity has taken on her 15-year-old twins, Max and Emme Muiz, in a recent interview with Audacy to promote her film “The Mother.”
She stated her ex-husband Marc Anthony’s adolescents have only lately begun to tell her that when they come into a room, they feel like others are thinking about who their parents are and aren’t “seeing them for who they are.”
Strangers, according to Lopez, frequently evaluate their children. And, while she understands that it may not be a particularly relatable problem for most people, it’s difficult for them to deal with the reality that they have a “lens” on them that others do not.
“I did that to them,” she admitted, adding that she feels “guilty” about it all the time.
When asked what she’d most want to protect her children against, Lopez was inspired to ponder the hardships of having famous parents. She quipped that, like most parents, she hopes she can protect Max and Emme from “everything,” citing “heartbreak,” “disappointment,” and “not getting the job they want” as some of her main fears.
“You don’t want them to experience any pain in their lives,” she joked, conceding that the objective was unachievable.
One of the advantages of suffering, according to the 53-year-old, is that it sometimes “makes you feel like a warrior when you get through it.” She does want her children to “feel strong” and “unapologetically be themselves, standing in their own truth and power.”
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Lopez, who married Ben Affleck in July 2022 after the couple called off their engagement over two decades earlier, has been candid about the strain stardom can place on her personal life.
Years before rekindling her romance with Affleck, she said on “The Graham Norton Show” in May 2010 that their relationship “did suffer” from being under the “siege” of a bright spotlight for so long.
“I would never blame the media for anything, but I think it definitely played a part in the dynamic of our relationship,” she stated at the time.