Jennifer Lopez on whether children should grow up in the spotlight of their famous parents

Jennifer Lopez is opening up on an important subject surrounding the impact Hollywood and the fame that accompanies it has on children growing up with famous parents.

The ‘Love Don’t Cost a Thing’ singer shares 14-year-old twins Maximilian and Emme with her former husband Marc Anthony. She is now married to Ben Affleck after the two married in the summer of 2022.

While on tour to promote her new Netflix film, ‘The Mother’, JLo told Audacy that she wishes she could have protected her kids from the spotlight.

“Everything,” Lopez said when asked about what she would do differently. “There’s so many things.”

“I think being the child of famous parents is not something many people can understand, and I feel for [my kids] for that because they didn’t choose that,” JLo explained. “They have just started letting me know how people treat them—so when they walk into the room, that’s what people are thinking about.”

“They’re not seeing them for who they are,” the singer and actress continued. “And I think that has to be a really hard thing for them. So I would love to be able to protect them from that.”

JLo talks bullying and judging

Lopez also tackled issues such as bullying and “being judged” by other kids.

“Everybody has to deal with being bullied,” Lopez said. “It doesn’t matter who you are, you can get bullied.”

“But being judged by people that you don’t even know in a way is really difficult for them to grow up and be themselves. They know that there’s a lens on them, and that’s hard,” she explained.

“[It’s] probably not [a] very relatable thing to say, because a lot of people don’t understand it—but it’s hard for them, I think.”

“And I did that to them, and so again we have this guilt as moms, what we do and what we brought into their lives. So there’s that part,” JLo confessed.

“I think I would want to protect them from everything. You don’t ever want them to feel a moment of pain in their lives, but that’s not realistic. You realize as you get older, OK, the pain is necessary. The pain is actually good. The pain kind of makes you feel a little bit like a warrior when you get through it.”