Jennifer Lopez was a very proud mom as she shared a behind-the-scenes look at her twins Max and Emme’s high school graduation.
“They say I’m lucky, I don’t disagree…Just this feeling,” Lopez, 56, wrote on Saturday, June 27, alongside an Instagram carousel of recent events in her life.
The photos include the twins celebrating being part of the class of 2026, as well as other personal milestones, like commemorating the release of her new comedy Office Romance on Netflix with a box of cupcakes and chowing down on what might be 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 will be off to two different colleges in the fall.
Earlier this month, Lopez told Extra that both Max and Emme had overcome adversity on their way to graduating high school. (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 have ADHD, which means they “learn differently and there were struggles at times.”
“I’m so proud that they set goals for themselves. They all got into all five colleges that they applied to. Each one got a scholarship to a school,” 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 know, when school gets serious in the fifth grade — they just worked hard, worked hard.”
She went on, “I’m just so proud of them because they did what they said they were going to do. They are good people. They are loving, good hearted people. And they always said that. I would say to them, ‘What do I say?’ They say, ‘Doesn’t matter if we get good grades so long as we are good people.’ I was like, ‘That is right.’ And they still sometimes will quote that back to me. So I’m very, very proud of both of them.”
During a May appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jennifer said she’d been “crying for two months” over the prospect of the twins going to college. She confirmed that, much like in high school, Max and Emme chose to go to two different universities.
“It’s fine. I want them to be happy, go where they want to go, and do what they want 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 come in and out of my life, but it’s been the three of us. They’ve always been there, and I’ve always been there.”
Lopez admitted that, until recently, she “never really thought” about the prospect of her twins moving out.
“I just never thought that far ahead,” she confessed to host Andy Cohen. “I thought, too, that they’re so independent — I gave them roots and wings. [I thought], ‘It’s great, this is how it is … this is a healthy mom thing to do.’ And then about a couple of months ago, I just was, like, writing something for their end-of-the-school-year thing for them to put in the program at the graduation, and I just have not … every time it comes up, I just start crying. I could cry right now.”
