Jennifer Lopez said on the June 15 SmartLess podcast, "That’s great. Like, ‘You had very little help,' you know?" as she recalled raising her and Marc Anthony's twins while balancing a major career.
Jennifer Lopez on SmartLess
"I was like, ‘You did that s--t all by yourself,'" Jennifer Lopez added on the June 15 episode, anchoring the anecdote in a straight, personal line: she had "very little help" parenting Emme and Max even as they approached adulthood.
Emme and Max Graduation
Both my kids got into all their colleges. They both got scholarships and they're going where they want to go," Lopez said, reporting that her 18-year-old twins secured college places and scholarship support as they graduated high school—details that convert a parenting claim into concrete outcomes for Emme and Max.
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Marc Anthony Custody Timeline
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony finalized their divorce in 2014 and agreed to joint legal and physical custody of their twins, a legal arrangement that exists alongside Lopez's June 15 assertion of limited day-to-day help; Lopez had previously said in 2017 on The View, "We’re great friends. And we’re parents together," which framed co-parenting publicly.
The 18-year-old twins Emme and Max now heading to college sharpen the practical question at the center of Lopez's remark: joint custody established in 2014 appears in the record, but Lopez's on-record account of doing much of the raising suggests legal custody did not equate to equal daily caregiving, a common divergence between court orders and household routines.
Given the 2014 custody agreement and Lopez's repeated public statements—both the June 15 SmartLess remarks and the 2017, "We’re great friends. And we’re parents together" line—the most defensible conclusion is that joint legal and physical custody provided a framework while Lopez carried a larger share of day-to-day parenting responsibilities for Emme and Max.
