{"id":5726,"date":"2026-06-16T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jennifer-lopez-throws-shade-at-marc-anthony-as-she-jokes-about-raising-twins-with-very-little-help\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:17:03","slug":"jennifer-lopez-throws-shade-at-marc-anthony-as-she-jokes-about-raising-twins-with-very-little-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jennifer-lopez-throws-shade-at-marc-anthony-as-she-jokes-about-raising-twins-with-very-little-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez throws shade at Marc Anthony as she jokes about raising twins &#8216;with very little help&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F131163063.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jennifer Lopez threw shade at ex-husband Marc Anthony over his alleged lack of \u201chelp\u201d when it came to raising their twins, Emme and Max.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HU7Qc03tv_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSmartLess\u201d podcast<\/a> Monday, the \u201cSelena\u201d actress got candid about how <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/28\/parents\/jennifer-lopez-tears-up-over-twins-graduating-high-school-moving-out-in-emotional-interview\/\">\u201cemotional\u201d she\u2019s become<\/a> as her 18-year-old kids prepare to head to college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy. And now I can really look at my life, appreciate it for what it is and what I\u2019ve created for myself and be really happy,\u201d she told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd both my kids got into all their colleges and they both got scholarships and they\u2019re going where they want to go,\u201d Lopez, 56, added. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Jennifer Lopez (seen above with her family in 2009) claimed she raised her and Marc Anthony\u2019s twins without much help. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cAnd both my kids got into all their colleges and they both got scholarships and they\u2019re going where they want to go,\u201d the \u201cSelena\u201d star (seen with her kids in 2025) said on the \u201cSmartLess\u201d podcast Monday. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just \u2026 I was like, \u2018You did that s\u2013t all by yourself.\u2019 That\u2019s great. Like, \u2018You had very little help,\u2019 you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez\u2019s comments come nearly a month after the \u201cVivir Mi Vida\u201d singer, 57, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/29\/parents\/marc-anthony-skips-emmes-graduation-as-jennifer-lopez-and-ben-afflecks-son-attend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared to skip Emme\u2019s high school graduation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cI\u2019m Real\u201d songstress and her ex Ben Affleck\u2019s son, Samuel, attended the Los Angeles ceremony, at which Emme <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/29\/celebrity-news\/jennifer-lopezs-child-emme-debuts-new-name-at-high-school-graduation-ceremony\/\">debuted a new name, \u201cOskar Mu\u00f1iz.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Lopez (seen above in Paris in June) said she had to tell herself: \u201c\u2018You did that s\u2013t all by yourself. \u2026 You had very little help.&#8217;\u201d <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Last month, Anthony appeared to skip Emme\u2019s high school graduation (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anthony also <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/09\/parents\/jennifer-lopez-wipes-away-tears-at-son-maxs-graduation\/\">wasn\u2019t seen at Max\u2019s high school graduation<\/a> ceremony earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Grammy winner and the \u201cOffice Romance\u201d star were <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2013\/01\/25\/j-lo-in-serious-agony-after-marc-anthony-split\/\">married from 2004 to 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They welcomed their twins in February 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Lopez <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/07\/celebrity-news\/jennifer-lopez-details-really-tough-marc-anthony-divorce\/\">detailed her \u201creally tough\u201d divorce<\/a> from Anthony.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cVivir Mi Vida\u201d singer was also not present for Max\u2019s graduation earlier this month. (Pictured: Lopez and Emme at Max\u2019s graduation.) <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The four-time Grammy winner and the \u201cOffice Romance\u201d star (both seen above in 2012) were married from 2004 to 2014. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAfter my third divorce, that\u2019s when I really started getting good at it,\u201d the two-time Grammy nominee joked during her Las Vegas residency show at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously, that\u2019s not funny,\u201d she continued, before explaining that \u201cit was actually a really tough time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez said she was \u201creally about to give up on it all\u201d as she struggled as a \u201csingle mom\u201d of two then-3-year-old twins.<\/p>\n<p>The pop star said she called her mentor\u00a0Louise Hay, who helped her through the tough time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>They welcomed the twins (seen above with their parents) in February 2008. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>In March, Lopez detailed her \u201creally tough\u201d divorce from Anthony (seen above with the actress in 2016). <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Anthony is now married to model Nadia Ferreira (seen above with the singer in 2023). She is currently pregnant with his eighth child. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe said to me, \u2018Jennifer, you\u2019re a dancer, right?\u2019\u201d she recalled. \u201cI said, \u2018Yes, I am.\u2019 And she said, \u2018When you\u2019re learning a dance, and you get the steps wrong, what do you do?\u2019 I said, \u2018I just keep going until I get the steps right.\u2019 And she said, \u2018That\u2019s right, Jennifer. Always keep dancing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEnough\u201d actress was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/article\/jennifer-lopezs-7-husbands-boyfriends-and-fiances\/\">married three other times<\/a>: to Cuban waiter Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998; to dancer Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003; and to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/article\/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-relationship-timeline\/\">Ben Affleck from 2022 to 2025<\/a>. She is currently single.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Anthony has been <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/01\/29\/marc-anthony-marries-nadia-ferreira-in-lavish-miami-wedding\/\">married to Nadia Ferreira<\/a> since 2023. The 27-year-old model is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/28\/parents\/marc-anthony-is-expecting-baby-no-8-his-second-with-pregnant-wife-nadia-ferreira\/\">pregnant with the salsa hitmaker\u2019s eighth child<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/16\/parents\/jennifer-lopez-throws-shade-at-marc-anthony-as-she-jokes-about-raising-twins-with-very-little-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lopez threw shade at ex-husband Marc Anthony over his alleged lack of \u201chelp\u201d when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131163063.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}