Jennifer Lopez has bared her ‘guilt’ over the negative impact her fame has had on her 15-year-old twins Max and Emme.
The 53-year-old pop diva, who is currently on her fourth husband Ben Affleck, shares her children with her third ex-husband Marc Anthony.
She noted that ‘being the child of famous parents is really not something that many people can understand, and I feel for them for that because they didn’t choose that.’
Speaking to Audacy, the Selena star revealed, ‘I haven’t talked to them a lot about this but we have just started – they have just started letting me know, like, how people treat them and do things like that.’
J-Lo, who last year introduced Emme onstage with gender-neutral pronouns, also held forth about the difficulty of seeing her children be ‘judged’ by strangers.
Mother of two: Jennifer Lopez has bared her ‘guilt’ over the negative impact her fame has had on her 15-year-old twins Max and Emme, with whom she is pictured in Paris last July
Frank: She told Audacy that ‘being the child of famous parents is really not something that many people can understand, and I feel for them for that because they didn’t choose that’
The Gigli star was giving an interview to promote her new Netflix movie The Mother, an action thriller in which she plays a hit woman.
When her personal life came up, Jennifer acknowledged that her celebrity is on the forefront of people’s minds even when they meet her teenage children.
‘So when they walk into the room, THAT’s what people are thinking about, they’re not seeing them for who they are,’ said she.
‘And I think that that has to be a really hard thing for them, so I would love to have been able to protect them from that.’
The Jenny From The Block hitmaker explained that for Max and Emme, ‘being judged by people that you don’t even know in a way is, I think, really difficult for them to kind of grow up and be themselves.’
She added: ‘It’s just like they know that there’s a lens on them, and that’s hard. Probably not very relatable thing to say, ‘cause a lot of people don’t understand it. They’re like: “Okay, so you’re famous and your kids are blah, blah, blah,” right?’
Jennifer touchingly reflected: ‘But it is, it’s hard for them I think. I did that to them. And so that, you know, again, like, we have this guilt as moms, it’s like what we do and what we brought into their lives.’
Earlier in the interview she argued that ‘I’m not a traditional mom. I’m not a, you know, stay-at-home mom. I’m a single mom. I’m a working mom.’
The way they were: The 53-year-old pop diva, who is currently on her fourth husband Ben Affleck , shares her children with her third and latest ex-husband Marc Anthony (right)
Plugging away: Jennifer is pictured with Ben on May 10 at the premiere of her new Netflix movie The Mother
A hit: The film rocketed to number one on the streaming website upon its release Friday
The Dinero songstress added: ‘I’m more than, in a way, I’m kind of a famous mom, which is a weird thing for kids too. So I have a whole set of things that is not normal, what people think of as not normal.’
After dropping on May 12, two days before Mother’s Day, Jennifer’s new movie rocketed to the position of number one film on Netflix.
She herself rang in Mother’s Day with a blended family celebration in which she and her husband Ben took both of their mother’s out in Los Angeles.
The couple were joined by both of Jennifer’s twins as well as Seraphina, 14, one of the three children Ben shares with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
Seraphina’s siblings Violet, 17, and Samuel, 11, were not in attendance, presumably because they were marking the holiday with their mother.
