Jennifer Lopez tears up over twins graduating high school, moving out in emotional interview

Jennifer Lopez is getting loud about her future empty nester status.

The singer got emotional when asked about her 18-year-old twins Max and Emme’s high school graduation during her Wednesday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

“Don’t talk about it because [I] start crying,” she told host Jimmy Kimmel, noting that she will definitely shed tears at the upcoming ceremony. “I’ve been crying for two months.”

Lopez said that the teenagers’ milestone moment really hit her when she wrote notes for their high school yearbook.

“When I tell you, the tears — it took me two days to write those things,” she recalled.

The singer, 56, also shared that her twins will be going to different colleges, a choice she is “fine” with since she wants “them to be happy and go where they want to go and do what they want to do.”

She added, “We’re going to pack up their rooms here and they’re going to take all the things that they want to take to their dorm.

“Then they’re going to realize that their dorms are too small and they’re going to miss home,” Lopez continued. “I hope they’ll want to come back real soon. That’s my plan.”

Although the actress is sad her children will be moving away, she insisted she is even happier that they are embarking on a new chapter.

“All year people were asking me, ‘They’re going away to college, is it going to be terrible?’ I’m like, ‘No. It’s going to be great,’” she said. “They have big dreams it’s going to be great.”

Lopez welcomed Max and Emme in 2008 with former husband Marc Anthony. The exes were married from 2004 to 2014.

Back in February, the “Hustlers” star posted a touching tribute for her kids’ milestone birthday.

“It was as if God was making sure you would enter a world full of pure magic!!” she wrote via Instagram. “In my heart, I knew that’s how your life would always be!!”

“When I would hold you as infants, I honestly felt as if I were holding two angels sent straight from heaven above,” she added. “My life was changed forever.”

She concluded, “‘I love you’ could never encapsulate the depth of feeling, affection, and care that I have for you, my coconuts. It has always been the three of us!! We have been on this journey together. We have always had each other to hold on to and be that steady presence in the middle of any snowstorm. And I promise you, my beautiful coconuts, no matter how big you get, that’s how it will always be.”

Last October, Lopez admitted she became more present in the twins’ lives after a pivotal conversation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“They spoke to me, [and] they’re like, ‘You’re not a regular mom. You’re not here every day. You don’t drop us off and pick us up like the other [moms],’” she recalled on the “Howard Stern Show” in 2025, sharing that her kids were around the age of 10 when the talk took place.

The performer subsequently “realized how much they needed me there.”