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“I had given birth and the kids honestly just gave me a new direction,” Lopez told Jess Cagle, editorial director of People and Entertainment Weekly. “They just made me realize…what was real and what wasn’t real. They just changed everything.”

"They did save me in many ways. Them being born and me realizing what true love was and them making me realize I need to love myself a little bit more really changed my life,” she told PA. 

“They’re great. They’re getting big. They’re at school. Their personalities are beautiful; they’re like yin and yang. They stay true to who they were from when they were born. Emma is like a mini-me; Max is really like a mini Marc. They’re complete opposites. But she’s like super focused and super sensitive, quiet and focused, and he’s kind of off the charts, lots of energy, super funny," she told Extra. 

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LIGHTS OF MY LIFE. You have brought me nothing but joy and happiness since the very second you were born. I am so proud of who you are and the beautiful loving caring people you are growing into. #coconuts8thBirthday #Iloveyoubeyondforever #maxandemme #February22nd And Thank you everyone for all the beautiful birthday wishes and videos. They are so precious!!," she captioned this photo on Instagram. 

“My kids are used to their mommy working a lot,” she told Hello! magazine. “They know I’m busy, and we’re like a team. If I’ve been working a lot, they actually try to make sure that they don’t wake me up in the morning. They’re amazingly supportive, and I try to stay with them as much as possible. They are usually with me wherever I’m working. It’s a hectic kind of life, but they’re used to it and they find it fun.”

“I love my kids,” she told Ellen DeGeneres. “I wish I would have four or five more.” She added: “The fact that you get to love somebody unconditionally in that way and not even care if they love you back – you just love them so much. Like that relationship, that’s the biggest blessing in the world.” 

“They are used to being around a lot of people,” she told ABC News. “They’re open, happy, curious, smart, loving, affectionate.” 

“There’s nothing as huge as giving birth to another human being and having to be responsible for another life. There’s you before kids and there’s you after kids – and they’re not the same you," she told InStyle. 

"That happened at eight for me, you know you think that would be at five, like oh they're not babies anymore. [I cried in the next room] the night before they turned eight," she said when talking about their latest birthday. 

“They’re loving and happy and healthy, thank God,” she said on Sirius. “And they love to jump around have fun.”