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Jennifer LopezandBen Affleckare doing their best with a house full of teenagers.
During an appearance onLive with Kelly and Markon Friday, theMotheractress, 53, opened up about parenting teens with her husband.
In addition to her twins, 15-year-old twinsMaximilian “Max” David and Emme Maribel, who she shares with ex-husbandMarc Anthony, Affleck is also dad to sonSamuel, 11, andSeraphina, 14,Violet, 17, with ex-wifeJennifer Garner.
“It’s almost five teenagers!” Lopez told the hosts. “The younger is 11, so he’s not quite, but pre-teen!”
When Ripa teased those years were “worse than teens,” Lopez insisted, “he’s an angel.”
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Lopez continued, “It’s a time when they are individuation, and they are challenging everything you say and everything you do and everything you are, and that’s what it is. And you have to kind of just ride the waves.”
“I feel like it’s surfing. I’m riding the waves, and then it’s like, ‘Oops, I just got knocked over!’ Now, I’m back, I’m back!”
Ripa joked that she’d sometimes hide from her teens in the closet, to which Lopez joked, “I understand more than you know!”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Lopez commented on her and her mom’s different parenting styles.
“So she was kind of a kid raising kids. And I had my kids when I was 38, so I had them much later, so I was more of an adult at that time,” said Lopez. “We kind of grew up together.”
source: people.com
