“I Just Got Knocked Over”: Jennifer Lopez Has a Hilarious Surfing Analogy To Explain Wild Ride of Raising Teenagers With Ben Affleck

Surfing is a wild sport, and the surfers who dare to attempt it are even wilder. While on the outside it may seem like the most fun outdoor activity, it has its dangers. The unpredictability of waves in terms of their size and speed has often had repercussions on surfers. Parenting, and especially to teenage kids, is sort of like the same thing, believes actress, dancer, and singer Jennifer Lopez. She draws parallels between raising a teenage child and stumbling to find a level with them to tumbling on a large and ferocious wave before getting back on the surfboard.

In a recent appearance at a chat show, Jennifer Lopez talks about raising a family with her actor-director husband Ben Affleck. One of the challenges, she said, was raising their teenage children. Both Affleck and Lopez have children from their previous marriages who are almost all in their teenage years.

Stumble and rise, the essential key to surfing or parenting

Jennifer Lopez recently appeared on the chat show ‘LIVE with Kelly and Mark’ alongside the namesake co-hosts. There she revealed that she is very much in love with her husband Ben Affleck and are focused on raising their family together. She also mentioned that between the two of them, there are almost 5 teenage children i.e. one of them is 11 years old. Lopez also credited Affleck for beautifully blending both their families from their previous marriages.

However, the interesting part of the conversation came when Lopez drew an analogy between raising teenage kids and surfing. She said, “No listen, it’s the time when they are individuating and they are challenging everything you say and everything you do and everything you are… you have to kind of just like ride the wave. I feel like it’s like surfing”.

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Before continuing further, Lopez enacted out what surfing and tumbling to a large wave must feel like. She continued, “I’m just riding the wave… just got knocked over… I’m back, I’m back”. All the while acting it out with her arms in motion, creating a hilarious situation on live air.

The extended family of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez was previously married to singer Marc Anthony from 2004-2014. She had a pair of twins with him, namely Emme Maribel Muniz and Max Muniz, who are both 15 years old. She was later engaged to New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez but got separated. Rodriguez too found comfort in his ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis after breaking up with Jennifer Lopez. Since 2021, she was dating Ben Affleck again, whom she married in 2022. Ben Affleck, on the other hand, has 3 children, 2 daughters, and a son, with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner. His daughters are Violet Anne, 17 years old, and Seraphina Rose Elizabeth, 14 years old, and his only son is Samuel Garner, who is 11 years old.

Together the couple, both in their 50s, are raising 5 children among them, most of them teenagers. Whether Jennifer Lopez has actually braved the dangers of surfing or not, is unclear. But the 53-year-old mother explained that she now understands what her mother, and by that token, all mothers go through while raising kids.

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