Jennifer Lopez Marks Memorial Day in White Bikini with Family Sing-Along Alongside Kids Max and Emme

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• Jennifer Lopez marked Memorial Day with her twins Max and Emme and close friends in Los Angeles

• The singer shared pictures of her sunbathing, swimming, and clips of her sing-along to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” with loved ones to Instagram on Monday, May 25

• Lopez welcomed her kids, now 18, with ex-husband Marc Anthony in February 2008

Jennifer Lopez was feeling patriotic as she marked Memorial Day with her nearest and dearest friends and family. 

The singer, 56, spent May 25 soaking up the bright Los Angeles sun and posted a picture of herself sunbathing poolside in a white triangle bikini on Instagram. 

In another clip, the mom of two was filmed taking a dip in a floatie while relaxing with her loved ones. 

Jennifer Lopez was pictured sunbathing poolside
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Lopez captioned the sweet images: “Spending the day with the people I love. Happy Memorial Day everybody ❤️🤍💙.” 

She was joined by her twins for the event, Max Muñiz and Emme Maribel Muñiz, both 18. The actress was filmed cuddling Max as the pair posed for a picture with the U.S. flag in the background. 

Jennifer Lopez and her daugher, Emme
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Lopez sported a white lace, cutaway dress for the event while Max and Emme dressed down.

The “On The Floor” singer even showed off her musical prowess as the crew enjoyed a passionate sing-along to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler.

Jennifer Lopez with her son, Max
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Lopez welcomed her kids with ex-husband Marc Anthony in February 2008, telling PEOPLE when they were age 6 that the love she felt for them was “unconditional.”

“I know everybody feels this way about their kids, but I just feel like they’re super special. I can’t wait to see what they do,” she added, noting, “I feel like my job is to not mess them up too much.”

Jennifer Lopez was joined by her friends and family for the event
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Emme has followed in Lopez’s multi-talented footsteps as a singer and author and once shocked fans by joining her mother onstage during her 2020 Super Bowl performance and belting out “Let’s Get Loud.”

But while Lopez is incredibly proud of her kids, the actress previously admitted that being a mom to teenagers comes with new challenges. 

The actress and singer soaked up the rays in a pool
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“The teenage years are tough,” she said in an interview on Live with Kelly and Mark in May 2023. “It’s challenging. You have this baby for a while and then it’s like, your best little friend who loves being with you all the time, and then all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Get out of my room.’ “

“They are challenging everything you say and everything you do and everything you are, and that’s what it is,” she added. “You have to kind of just ride the waves.”

“I think it’s particularly hard on moms, because they always love dad, they’re always like, ‘Dad’s the best!’ — and I was like that with my dad too!” she continued, turning to her mom, Guadalupe Rodríguez, who joined her on the show. “And my mom told me, and I’ll say it to you right now, on TV in front of everybody. I understand you so much more now.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Lopez commented on how she parents differrently to her mother, revealing that she was “looser” than her mom.

“I think my mom, for a long time, was a stay-at-home mom, and I’ve always been a working mom, so that right there is a very different thing,’ she continued. “And also she was 20 years old — by the time she was 26, she had 3 kids.”

“So she was kind of a kid raising kids. And I had my kids when I was 38, so I had them much later, so I was more of an adult at that time,” said Lopez. “We kind of grew up together,” she concluded.

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