Jennifer Lopez was a really proud mom as she shared a behind-the-scenes have a look at her twins Max and Emme’s highschool graduation.
“They are saying I’m lucky, I don’t disagree…Just this sense,” Lopez, 56, wrote on Saturday, June 27, alongside an Instagram carousel of recent events in her life.
The photos include the twins celebrating being a part of the category of 2026, in addition to other personal milestones, like commemorating the discharge of her recent comedy Office Romance on Netflix with a box of cupcakes and chowing down on what is perhaps the world’s largest croissant.
Lopez has often reflected on the prospect of becoming an empty nester over the past few months, now that the twins shall be off to 2 different colleges in the autumn.
Earlier this month, Lopez told Extra that each Max and Emme had overcome adversity on their strategy to graduating highschool. (Lopez shares the twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony, whom she was married to from 2004 to 2014.)
The “On the Floor” singer noted that the twins’ academic accomplishments have been particularly inspiring because they’ve ADHD, which implies they “learn in another way and there have been struggles at times.”
“I’m so proud that they set goals for themselves. All of them got into all five colleges that they applied to. Each got a scholarship to a faculty,” Lopez said. “And I just felt like they worked so hard. I watched how hard they worked — from the time that they were like, you realize, when school gets serious within the fifth grade — they only worked hard, worked hard.”
She went on, “I’m just so pleased with them because they did what they said they were going to do. They’re good people. They’re loving, good hearted people. And so they at all times said that. I’d say to them, ‘What do I say?’ They are saying, ‘Doesn’t matter if we get good grades as long as we’re good people.’ I used to be like, ‘That is correct.’ And so they still sometimes will quote that back to me. So I’m very, very pleased with each of them.”
During a May appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jennifer said she’d been “crying for 2 months” over the prospect of the twins going to varsity. She confirmed that, very similar to in highschool, Max and Emme selected to go to 2 different universities.
“It’s advantageous. I would like them to be blissful, go where they need to go, and do what they need to do,” she said.
As for becoming an empty nester, Lopez acknowledged on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on June 8 that it had been an “emotional time.”
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“It’s been the three of us,” she reminisced. “People have are available in and out of my life, nevertheless it’s been the three of us. They’ve at all times been there, and I’ve at all times been there.”
Lopez admitted that, until recently, she “never really thought” concerning the prospect of her twins moving out.
“I just never thought that far ahead,” she confessed to host Andy Cohen. “I assumed, too, that they’re so independent — I gave them roots and wings. [I thought], ‘It’s great, that is the way it is … this can be a healthy mom thing to do.’ After which a couple of couple of months ago, I just was, like, writing something for his or her end-of-the-school-year thing for them to place in this system on the graduation, and I just haven’t … each time it comes up, I just start crying. I could cry straight away.”