Jennifer Lopez is a lover of love. After rekindling her passion for Ben Affleck and marrying him in two different ceremonies over the summer, she is now focused on properly uniting their two families.
The 53-year-old triple threat star has 14-year-old twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Affleck has three children with his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner: Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10.
Lopez makes a rare statement about Garner, calling the Alias star “a great co-parent” and adding that the 50-year-old actress and Affleck “work extremely well together.”
Lopez believes the melding of their two families “needs to be handled with so much care.”
“They have so many feelings. They’re teens,” she says of her and Affleck’s kids. “But it’s going really well so far. What I hope to cultivate with our family is that his kids have a new ally in me and my kids have a new ally in him, someone who really loves and cares about them but can have a different perspective and help me see things that I can’t see with my kids because I’m so emotionally tied up.”
Lopez’s fourth spouse is Affleck, and she stunned several admirers by changing her surname to Affleck, a decision that was questioned in a New York Times opinion piece.