Jennifer Lopez is in her feels as her twins, Max and Emme, ring in another birthday.
Lopez, 55, shared a sweet video montage of her kids via Instagram on Saturday, February 22, in celebration of their 17th birthday. The video featured clips from the past and present of Max and Emme — whom she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony.
“Seventeen. I love you beyond forever 
,” Lopez’s caption read with emojis referring to her long-standing nickname for the twins.
“I called them coconuts because, obviously, they are twins, there are two of them, and when they were in the crib and they were very, very little, their hair looked like coconut hair, on a coconut,” Lopez said on Live with Kelly and Mark in February 2022. “And so I used to call them coconuts, and it just stuck.”
“I like to think that they like [the nickname],” she added.
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In the 17th birthday tribute, Lopez shared personal photos of Max and Emme from over the years, including some from their toddler days to more recent snaps of the teens. She paired the montage with Miley Cyrus’ “Edge of Midnight (Midnight Sky Remix)” featuring Stevie Nicks.
Lopez welcomed the twins in February 2008 while married to Anthony, now 56. (They finalized their divorce in June 2014.) She then had long-term relationships with dancer Casper Smart and former MLB player Alex Rodriguez before marrying Ben Affleck in 2023 — 20 years after their first engagement. She filed for divorce from Affleck, 52, in August 2024 and their split was finalized earlier this year.
While discussing her role in Unstoppable in December 2024, Lopez told Entertainment Weekly that she struggles with the idea of being “enough” for her kids as a solo parent. (Lopez plays Anthony Robles’ mom in the boxing biopic.)
“I’ve been a single mom at times in my life, and [I’ve asked,] ‘Am I enough for them?’ And the truth is, all you need is really one good parent to love you,” she told the outlet, adding, “That’s what the movie gave me: You are enough.”
Lopez and Anthony still try to coparent the best they can, but she alluded to the fact that it’s been tricky with him being on the East Coast in a 2022 interview with Vogue. Still, Anthony captioned a photo in 2019 of the parents holding Emme’s hand on the way to a recital, “Nothing but love between us. @jlo.”
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“Marc and I are good how we are right now,” Lopez revealed of their coparenting arrangement during a March 2017 appearance on The View. “There’s a reason we’re not together, but we’re great friends. And we’re parents together. We’re even working on a Spanish album together. [And] that has been even better for us. We met working, and that’s where we’re really magical, when we’re on stage together, and so we leave it there. That’s it.”
Anthony also shares daughter Arianna, 30, and son Chase, 28, with ex-girlfriend Debbie Rosado, sons Cristian, 24, and Ryan, 21, with ex-wife Dayanara Torres, and 20-month-old son Marco with wife Nadia Ferreira.
