Babies are still very much on Jennifer Lopez’s brain! Mom to twins Maximilian ‘Max’ David and Emme Maribel, 17 months, the actress — who turns 40 on Friday — admits in a new interview with Extra! that she and husband Marc Anthony “would love” to expand their brood. “I don’t know if we will…I don’t know if that’s in the cards for us,” she says, “but we’ll see.” Since welcoming the twins, Jennifer says she has been transformed. “You just mature so quickly in such a deep way and you think life is short and you have to just go for things,” she notes before adding,
“You can’t be afraid to try or do your best… just do it and that’s the example I want to set for my children as well. It’s like you can do anything. The only thing that ever holds us back is fear… it’s a useless emotion.”
The transformation was more than emotional. Jennifer says that she struggled to shed the baby weight, “just like everyone else.” She recalls,
“The first big amount of pounds comes off pretty quickly and then you have those last 10 or 20, 15 or 20 that just don’t want to go and you have to work really hard and I had to work really hard too. I had to diet and work out. I had to do a lot.”
In her first film since welcoming the twins, The Back-Up Plan, Jennifer plays an expectant mom — and she says a fake bump has nothing on a real one. “A bunch of us who have babies, we’re like, ‘It would be great when you are pregnant…you could take it off five times during the pregnancy, only for a half hour, then you have to put it back on,’” she muses. “That would be awesome. It would be perfect. But you can’t.”
Max and Emme have been frequent visitors to the set, keeping mom busy during breaks in filming. “I don’t think they realize what I do,” she says. “Once in awhile, they look at the monitor and go, ‘Mama.’ They’re just starting to talk.” Jennifer adds,
“I put Max to bed yesterday…and I said, ‘I love you baby. I’ll see you tomorrow.’ And he was like, ‘I love you.’”