Jennifer Lopez said on the June 15 episode of the SmartLess podcast that she had "very little help" raising her and Marc Anthony's 18-year-old twins as they graduated high school.
June 15: Jennifer Lopez Quote
18-year-old twins Emme and Max graduated high school, and Lopez told the SmartLess podcast, "Both my kids got into all their colleges. They both got scholarships and they're going where they want to go." That announcement framed her remark that she had "very little help" during their upbringing.
Emme and Max College Plans
June 15 comments made clear what changes now: both twins secured college admission and scholarships, which shifts Lopez's daily role from active high-school parenting toward overseeing a college transition. Operationally, that typically means coordinating enrollment steps, scholarship paperwork and housing logistics — responsibilities the source says Lopez will manage as the twins move into higher education.
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2014 Lopez and Marc Anthony Agreement
2014 marked the finalized divorce when Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony agreed to joint legal and physical custody of Emme and Max; Lopez reflected on that history on SmartLess and earlier on The View, saying, "We’re great friends. And we’re parents together." She also told SmartLess, "Now, I can really look at my life, appreciate it for what it is and what I’ve created for myself and be really happy."
Jennifer Lopez added a direct reaction to observers of her parenting, saying, "I was like, ‘You did that s--t all by yourself,'" and, "That’s great. Like, ‘You had very little help,' you know?" Those lines supply the human moment and the operational claim — that Lopez handled day-to-day parenting work while the twins reached milestones.
Marc Anthony has continued expanding his family since his marriage to Lopez ended; he and Nadia Ferreira welcomed son Marco in 2023 and announced another baby earlier in 2025. That timeline creates a factual complication: joint legal and physical custody was agreed in 2014, yet Lopez's June 15 description portrays a largely solo parenting workload during Emme and Max's upbringing.
Marc Anthony: what specific support, if any, did he provide while Lopez was raising Emme and Max?
