Jennifer Lopez has mixed feelings about her children leaving home
The 56-year-old singer-and-actress is currently promoting her new movie Kiss of the Spider Woman and during her downtime, she's been touring colleges with 17-year-old twins Max and Emme - who she has with ex-husband Marc Anthony - and while she's sad at the idea of being alone, she is also excited for the "adventure" her offspring have in store
8 October 2025
Speaking on Live with Kelly and Mark, she said: "I mean, it's crazy. We're visiting colleges today, between doing this [press] and the premiere, we're visiting a college today.
"It's happening - they're leaving, they're going, and it's crazy.
"I'm happy because I feel like, I remember how exciting that time in my life was like, 'Oh, I'm figuring out what I want to do with my life.'
"And it's an exciting adventure, I want that for them. But I also think like, 'Oh! I'm going to be by myself.'' "
When co-host Kelly Ripa told Jennifer she was going to love the new stage of her life, the Hustlers actress admitted she has an "inkling" she might enjoy some of it but she's hopeful her kids will still want to come back to her.
She added: "But also always making a home that they want to come back to, right? That was the goal for me since they were born," the "On the Floor.
"Whatever this is, whatever we create, the three of us together, it's going to be something that they always are like, 'When I go home, it feels good. It smells like home, it tastes like home.' All of it.' And I always concentrated on that with them. And I feel like we've created that."
Jennifer noted she was in a "brutal" phase a few years ago with the twins but now they get along in a "really beautiful" way.
She said: "Now they're 17, they'll be 18 in February. They're graduating this June from high school and I feel like, we're close. We're a close-knit three now. A lot has happened with us.
"We had to bond together, you know what I mean? That kind of changed things and made it really beautiful for us."
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