When Jennifer Lopez wed fourth husband Ben Affleck in 2022 their family got a whole lot bigger thanks to her two children and his three children from prior marriages.
‘The five of them have had a difficult kind of… I wouldn’t say difficult, but kind of this surrealistic kind of upbringing where they’ve been watched from the time they were very small,’ the 54-year-old pop star explained to Apple Music Radio on Wednesday.
‘And so them becoming who they are in the public eye could be very, very hard for them. And I am sure it is at times even more than they share with us, but they handle it very beautifully.’
Host Zane Lowe replied: ‘And you can’t protect them from [online gossip], right?’
‘We can’t because they’re techie kids. Like every other kid, they’re on their phone constantly. They search everything. The minute you say any new word to them, they look at any new name, any new anything,’ Jennifer said.
When Jennifer Lopez wed fourth husband Ben Affleck in 2022 their family got a whole lot bigger thanks to her two children and his three children from prior marriages (pictured in 2022)
The 54-year-old pop star explained to Apple Music Radio on Wednesday: ‘The five of them have had a difficult kind of… I wouldn’t say difficult, but kind of this surrealistic kind of upbringing where they’ve been watched from the time they were very small’
‘Any new information they want to know what it is, and they know they can. And so they’re much more informed and it’s totally into the meme culture and think it’s hysterical. And now that they’re a little bit older, we try not to make it such a big thing in our house because their lives are so much more than the fact that we are their parents in that way, that we’re famous.’
Lopez continued: ‘And so we do it in ways that kind of just go by like, “You know that’s ridiculous?” They’re like, “No, we know. We know.” And they’re all so incredibly smart and heartful and brilliant in their own ways.’
On February 22, the two-time Grammy nominee will celebrate the sweet 16 birthdays of her fraternal twins – Emme Muñiz and Max Muñiz – from her seven-year marriage to Marc Anthony, which ended in 2014.
Little Emme came out as gender-neutral in 2022 and uses they/them pronouns.
And on February 27, the 51-year-old actor-director will celebrate the 12th birthday of his youngest child, son Samuel.
Ben is also father to two teenage daughters – Violet, 18; and Seraphina aka Fin, 15 – from his decade-long marriage to Daredevil leading lady Jennifer Garner, which ended in 2018.
Affleck will next have a mystery role in Dave Meyer’s ‘therapy-musical biopic’ This Is Me… Now: A Love Story – premiering this Friday on Prime Video – to coincide with the release of Jennifer’s ninth studio album.
Lopez reportedly dedicated nine of the 13 songs to the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker on This Is Me… Now, which marks her first record since A.K.A. a decade ago.
Jennifer continued: ‘And so them becoming who they are in the public eye could be very, very hard for them. And I am sure it is at times even more than they share with us, but they handle it very beautifully’
![Host Zane Lowe (R) replied: 'And you can't protect them from [online gossip], right?'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/14/17/81267033-13083927-image-a-19_1707932143276.jpg "Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck struggle to shield their blended family of five 'techie kids' from online gossip as the kids are constantly on their phones. 7")
Host Zane Lowe (R) replied: ‘And you can’t protect them from [online gossip], right?’
Lopez said: ‘We can’t because they’re techie kids. Like every other kid, they’re on their phone constantly. They search everything. The minute you say any new word to them, they look at any new name, any new anything’
The two-time Grammy nominee continued: ‘Any new information they want to know what it is, and they know they can. And so they’re much more informed and it’s totally into the meme culture and think it’s hysterical. And now that they’re a little bit older, we try not to make it such a big thing in our house because their lives are so much more than the fact that we are their parents in that way, that we’re famous’ (pictured July 16)
Jennifer said: ‘And so we do it in ways that kind of just go by like, “You know that’s ridiculous?” They’re like, “No, we know. We know.” And they’re all so incredibly smart and heartful and brilliant in their own ways’ (pictured May 20)
On February 22, Lopez will celebrate the sweet 16 birthdays of her fraternal twins – Emme Muñiz and Max Muñiz – from her seven-year marriage to Marc Anthony, which ended in 2014 (2019 family portrait)
And on February 27, the 51-year-old actor-director will celebrate the 12th birthday of his youngest child, son Samuel (R, pictured February 2)
Ben is also father to two teenage daughters – Violet (L, pictured July 4), 18; and Seraphina aka Fin, 15 – from his decade-long marriage to Daredevil leading lady Jennifer Garner, which ended in 2018
Affleck will next have a mystery role in Dave Meyer’s ‘therapy-musical biopic’ This Is Me… Now: A Love Story – premiering this Friday on Prime Video – to coincide with the release of the Can’t Get Enough singer’s ninth studio album
Jennifer reportedly dedicated nine of the 13 songs to the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker on This Is Me… Now, which marks her first record since A.K.A. a decade ago
Lopez has a notorious reputation in the music industry for passing off the vocals of African-American singers like (from L-R) Ashanti, Christina Milian, and Brandy as her own
For instance in 2002, the Emmy-nominated producer not only kept the entire Jenny from the Block chorus and bridge performed by her back-up vocalist Natasha Ramos on the finished record, she even kept her giggles from the original demo
The Can’t Get Enough singer – who gets 24.9M monthly listeners on Spotify – has a notorious reputation in the music industry for passing off the vocals of African-American singers like Ashanti, Christina Milian, and Brandy as her own.
For instance in 2002, Jennifer not only kept the entire Jenny from the Block chorus and bridge performed by her back-up vocalist Natasha Ramos on the finished record, she even kept her giggles from the original demo.
On the acting front, Lopez will next star in William Goldenberg’s Anthony Robles biopic Unstoppable and Brad Peyton’s AI thriller Atlas destined for Netflix.
The Emmy-nominated producer also oversees the 19-episode fifth (and final) season of Joanna Johnson, Bradley Bredeweg, and Peter Paige’s The Fosters spin-off Good Trouble, which airs Tuesdays on Freeform.
