Jennifer Lopez at the premiere of “The Flash” in Hollywood in June 2023.Photo:Phillip Faraone/Getty Images

Jennifer Lopez attends the Los Angeles premiere of Warner Bros. “The Flash”

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Jennifer Lopez’s kids aren’t crazy when she bares her famous midriff.

On Thursday, the musician, 54, appeared onThe Viewand was asked about her two twin teenagers, Max and Emme. Noting that she heard Lopez’s kids can be “tough critics,” co-host Ana Navarro, 52, asks what the singer what her 15-year-olds thought of her new album.

Sharing how her kids told her they were bigger fans of her older albumThis Is Me…Thenversus her new albumThis Is Me…Now, Lopez says it inspired her to approach her new album differently.

“And suddenly, you are all that,” co-hostWhoopi Goldberg, 68, chimes in.

“Just for a second though. Then it’s right back to ‘Mom, don’t wear the crop top!’ " Lopez laughs.

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Jennifer Lopez and her twins.Jennifer Lopez Instagram

Jennifer Lopez with her kids

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“Why not?” she teases.

“And you can’t protect them from that, right?” Lowe asked, referring to the things her kids might read online about Lopez and husbandBen Affleck.

In addition to her twins, Lopez is stepmom to Affleck’sthree kids— Violet, 18, Seraphina Rose, 15, and Samuel, 11 — whom he shares with exJennifer Garner, 51.

“We can’t because they’re techie kids. Like every other kid, they’re on their phone constantly. They search everything. The minute you say any new word to them, they look at any new name, any new anything,” she explained.

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck attend the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros. “The Flash”

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“Any new information they want to know what it is, and they know they can. And so they’re much more informed and it’s totally into the meme culture and think it’s hysterical,” Lopez continued. “And now that they’re a little bit older, we try not to make it such a big thing in our house because their lives are so much more than the fact that we are their parents in that way, that we’re famous.”

Adding that her kids have been handling fame “really well,” the proud mom said “the five of them have had a difficult kind of… I wouldn’t say difficult, but kind of this surrealistic kind of upbringing where they’ve been watched from the time they were very small.”

“And so them becoming who they are in the public eye could be very, very hard for them. And I am sure it is at times even more than they share with us, but they handle it very beautifully.”

source: people.com