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How Jennifer Lopez's Role successful The Mother Helped Her Grow As a Mom
Jennifer Lopez's kids aren't acrophobic to get loud.
The multi-hyphenate recently shed airy connected what it's similar raising her 15-year-old twins, Max and Emme, especially now that they person funny minds of their own.
"You volition ever adore your children," J.Lo told Vogue Mexico successful an interrogation published connected June 22, translated from Spanish to English. "There is an acceptance they person of you. And past arsenic they get older, they commencement to wonder, 'Why are we doing this? Why is my ma doing that? Do I person to bash it too?'"
As she enactment it, "That's wherever they commencement to situation you."
However, Jennifer—who shares her twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony—understands that everyone goes done this phase.
"You astir apt retrieve erstwhile you were a teen and you gave your ma a hard time,'" she described. "And I don't deliberation it's due to the fact that they're not bully kids. Rather they conscionable privation to know, to learn, they privation answers."
And increasing up successful the nationalist oculus hasn't been casual for Max and Emme.
"I deliberation being the kid of celebrated parents is not thing galore radical tin understand," the JLO Beauty founder told Audacy last month, "and I consciousness for [my kids] for that due to the fact that they didn't take that."
She continued, "They person conscionable started letting maine cognize however radical dainty them—so erstwhile they locomotion into the room, that's what radical are reasoning about. They're not seeing them for who they are."
Although she tries her champion to protect them from the critics, it doesn't impact her children immoderate less.
"Being judged by radical that you don't adjacent cognize successful a mode is, I think, truly hard for them to turn up and beryllium themselves," she shared. "They cognize that there's a lens connected them, and that's hard."
As she enactment it, "I did that to them, and truthful again we person this guilt arsenic moms, what we do, and what we brought into their lives."
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It's times similar this that marque having a blended household each the much meaningful.
According to the 53-year-old, she and her twins person perfectly adjusted to life with Ben Affleck and his kids, Violet, 17, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, who helium shaes with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
"We moved successful together," J.Lo told Today in January. "The kids moved successful together. It's been, like, a truly benignant of affectional transition, but astatine the aforesaid clip each your dreams coming true."
She added, "It's conscionable been a phenomenal year. Like, my champion twelvemonth I deliberation since my kids were born."
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