This makes Jennifer Lopez now parent to two legal adults, which comes with additional weight to a family that has been growing up in public and attempting to defend the aspects that are still considered home.
Emme Maribel Muñiz and Maximilian “(max)” Muñiz-Lopez twins of Marc Anthony, are now 18 and that age can be viewed as a mere milestone. Within the Lopez family, it has been the beginning of a new season as well college trips, final years of high school, and more occasions when the twins are next to their mother as not little children, but as semi-adults who are making their own decisions.
Lopez has always positioned that shift as both emotional and practical simultaneously. In one of her appearances at the first night of her Las Vegas residency, in October 2025, she said that her children maintain their concentration on mundane life, rather than celebrity life. “It’s funny, my kids are not very involved with mom’s work.” The quote is a through-line in the way she discusses them, not so much as continuations of her career, but as teenagers who desire stability.
Nevertheless, the general audience has seen Emme specifically rise to the occasion at very opportune times. Emme sang at the Super Bowl halftime concert by Lopez at age 11 and it was clear that she did it with a calm that was instinctive. It was followed by Emme performing alongside Lopez again in 2022, before which Lopez presented her child as they / he onstage at the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala. In the viral clip, she informed the viewers, “The last time we performed together was in a big stadium like this, and I ask them to sing with me all the time and they won’t.” Yes, this is a very special occasion, So this is a very special occasion. They are very, very busy. Booked. And pricey. They cost me when they come out. But they’re worth every single penny because they’re my favorite duet partner of all time.
Max, more quiet in the press, has also been characterized as being creative and performance-ready, having featured in an early youth version of “the Wizard of Oz.” Both twins have been attending high-profile events over the past few years alongside their mother, such as a coordinated red-carpet appearance at the Broadway premiere of “Othello” in March 2025 and a family appearance at a New York screening of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” in October 2025.
Their 18 th birthday led Lopez to give one of her most specific accounts of how it has been to have raised them. In a text reminding them of the night they were born, she wrote that they were “in the midst of the biggest, most beautiful snowstorm NY had seen in years!” and “I cannot believe you are now adults…18 years old!” She, too, reiterated one of their family nicknames that has accompanied them over the years: “I love you beyond forever…my coconuts,” and, “It has always been the three of us!! We have been on this journey together.”
With the graduation and college plans closer, Lopez has talked about the attempts to have a home base where the twins will look forward to returning, something that smelled like, tasted like, and felt like home, even though they would be starting to make a home elsewhere beyond the day to day sphere she inhabited. To the fans, it is that Emme and Max are 18. What has been silent is that the family has been on course to this handoff years ago, one backstage embrace, one duet, and one normal dinner request at a time.
