Jennifer Lopez is spending Memorial Day in the US with her twins Emme and Max, who are about to leave for university. The twins, son and daughter from her marriage to Marc Anthony, are at 18 stepping into the last summer before they leave the family home - and Lopez, at 56, said it quietly in the moment before it ends: "They are leaving, they are leaving - it is wild."

The celebration took place by the pool, with close friends and family. The table was dressed with summer motifs - green vases, white and pink roses, a basket of lemons and oranges - and the family sang music together around it. Lopez wore a white bikini, no make-up and no pretensions.

Back in February 2025 Lopez revealed she had been touring universities with the kids. "I am going to be alone!" - she said then, in the moment when every parent knows the joke covers something heavier. Wealth, career, support networks - none of it helps on the night before you stare at an empty kids' room. That is the part of "superstar mom" no one writes about.

The Balkan reader knows this point well - maybe even better than the American one, with smaller apartments and tighter family bonds. When the children leave, the silence is the same in Los Angeles and in Skopje. Lopez did not have much to say about it - and that was the most honest part of all.