Jennifer Lopez has opened up candidly about the guilt she felt as a working mother raising her twins, Emme and Max. After her high-profile divorce from Ben Affleck, Lopez threw herself into a busy schedule filled with acting roles and music projects.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with Spanish publication El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, the 55-year-old singer and actress reflected on the challenges she faced trying to juggle her career and motherhood. She admitted that her twins, now 17, might have felt her absence at times due to her demanding work life.<\/p>\n Lopez explained that the feeling of \u201cmom guilt\u201d is something many working mothers experience\u2014the constant internal struggle about whether they\u2019re giving enough to their kids. \u201cI was a working mom when they were little. They probably didn\u2019t get as much of me as they wanted, right? Because when you\u2019re a working mom \u2014 and so many working moms out there know this \u2014 you always have that guilt,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n There were moments when she wondered if she should have stayed home more or even quit working entirely. \u201cI should have been around more. I shouldn\u2019t have left at all. I should\u2019ve just stayed home,\u201d she confessed. But Lopez also acknowledged that despite these doubts, she did her best to raise her children under the circumstances.<\/p>\n Lopez\u2019s twins were often with her during important career milestones, traveling alongside her on world tours and attending shows like American Idol<\/em>. Reflecting on those times, Lopez now sees the experience as meaningful and valuable for the whole family. \u201cLooking back on it, it was an amazing experience. And I was glad that I was able to take them around the world. They were on tour with me. They would go to American Idol<\/em> with me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Recently, Lopez celebrated Emme and Max\u2019s 17th birthdays with a heartfelt tribute on social media, emphasizing how grateful she is for the time they shared together\u2014even amid the chaos of a busy career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jennifer Lopez has opened up candidly about the guilt she felt as a working mother raising her twins, Emme and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-73457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-jennifer-lopez"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}