Jennifer Lopez Reveals Her & Ben Affleck’s Kids Are Passionate About Politics: ‘They Will Call BS On Stuff Real Quick’

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s 5 children are very passionate astir politics, the vocalist revealed successful her new interview with Vogue for the magazine’s Dec. 2022 interview. “This procreation is beautifully alert and progressive and brave,” said J.Lo, who is ma to 14-year-old twins Emme and Max, and stepmom to Ben’s 3 kids, Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10. “And they volition telephone bullshit connected worldly truly quick,” the Shotgun Wedding actress besides said.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck person a blended household with 5 children (Photo: Lionel Urman/SIPA/Shutterstock)

Jennifer, who shares her twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony, went connected to stock her hopes for her children successful the Vogue interview, which was published the time of the 2022 Midterm Elections. “I privation my kids to basal up for themselves and the things they attraction about,” she said. “I privation each the small girls successful the satellite to get loud. Get loud! Say it erstwhile it’s wrong. Don’t beryllium afraid. I was acrophobic for a agelong time: acrophobic to not get the job, to piss radical off, acrophobic that radical wouldn’t similar me. No.”

The “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” hitmaker explained however she’s recovered her ain dependable successful authorities implicit the years, aft being hesitant to stock her opinions erstwhile she archetypal became famous.

“Early successful my vocation radical would inquire astir politics, but I ever felt similar radical didn’t truly privation to perceive from an histrion oregon idiosyncratic who sang popular songs,” Jennifer explained. “Like a shut-up-and-dance benignant of situation. I didn’t person the confidence, and I didn’t privation to marque a mistake. But you get to a constituent successful your beingness wherever you realize, if something’s wrong, you accidental it. If you’re not doing thing astir it past you’re benignant of complicit.”

Jennifer Lopez covers ‘Vogue’ for the Dec. 2022 contented (Photo: Annie Leibovitz)

J.Lo continued, “Whether it was kids successful cages, oregon kids getting changeable successful the thoroughfare by police—all these things wherever it was conscionable like, What the hellhole is going connected astir here? When did we suffer our way? There were truthful galore awful, disfigured attitudes coming to light. It was truly bittersweet due to the fact that it didn’t request to beryllium political. It was astir being a bully person, loving your neighbor, each the things that radical accidental they basal for but past they don’t signifier due to the fact that somebody’s not the aforesaid arsenic them oregon idiosyncratic has a antithetic intersexual predisposition oregon sex individuality oregon a antithetic race. It’s like, Really? You can’t conscionable bash you? You can’t conscionable beryllium you and beryllium blessed and fto idiosyncratic other beryllium blessed too?”

J.Lo has ever been politically progressive and notably stumped for Democratic candidates like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton in past elections. As her and Ben’s kids get older, they’ll astir apt get much and much progressive successful politics. “Bennifer” should beryllium truthful proud!