Jennifer Lopez thinks her 15-year-old twins have a hard time being the children of famous parents: 'I did that to them'
- Jennifer Lopez feels "guilt" that her fame makes life "hard" for her twins Max and Emme Muñiz.
- "I did that to them," she said.
Jennifer Lopez opened up about the toll she feels her fame has taken on her 15-year-old twins, Max and Emme Muñiz, in a recent interview with Audacy promoting her movie "The Mother."
She said the teenagers, who she shares with her ex-husband Marc Anthony, have just recently begun to share with her that when they walk into a room, they feel like people are thinking about who their parents are and aren't "seeing them for who they are."
Lopez said that her children are often judged by strangers. And though she knows it might not be a very relatable problem for most people, it's hard for them to handle the fact that there's a "lens" on them that others don't have to deal with.
"I did that to them," she said, adding that she often feels "guilt" about it.
Lopez was prompted to reflect on the difficulties of having famous parents when asked what she'd most want to protect her kids from. She joked that like most parents, she wishes she could shield Max and Emme from "everything," listing "heartbreak," "disappointment," and "not getting the job they want" as some the concerns at the top of her mind.
"You don't ever want them to feel a moment of pain in their lives," she laughed, admitting that the goal was unrealistic.
The 53-year-old said that one of the benefits of pain is that it sometimes "makes you feel like a warrior when you get through it." She does want her kids to "feel strong" and "unapologetically be themselves and stand in their own truth and in their own power."
Lopez, who married Ben Affleck in July 2022 after the couple broke off their engagement nearly two decades eariler, has been open about the pressure fame sometimes put on her personal life.
In May 2010, years before she rekindled her relationship with Affleck, she said on "The Graham Norton Show" that their relationship "did suffer" from being under the "siege" of a bright spotlight for many years.
"I would never blame the media for anything, but I think it definitely played a part in the dynamic of our relationship," she said at the time.