Jennifer Lopez details holiday plans after ‘intense year’ and Ben Affleck divorce

It’s onward and upward for Jennifer Lopez, who says she’s excited astir nan upcoming vacation play aft filing for divorcement from Ben Affleck successful August.

“It was a beautiful aggravated twelvemonth for me, and I’m astir looking guardant to spending clip pinch my kids and my family coming retired from nan East Coast,” Lopez, 55, told People successful an question and reply published Wednesday.

“The holidays are specified a typical clip for us, and they’ve ever been since I was a small girl,” she continued. “And I really look guardant to those moments erstwhile I tin beryllium pinch my sisters and conscionable relax and person nosy and create caller memories.”

The multi-hyphenate co-parents 16-year-old twins Max and Emme pinch her ex-husband Marc Anthony. Her 2 sisters are Leslie Lopez, 56, and Lynda Lopez, 53.

Jennifer, who is busier than ever, described nan holidays arsenic a clip to “slow down” and “enjoy” being pinch her loved ones.

“We don’t get to spot each different each year, truthful we benignant of drawback up connected what everybody’s doing and really life is,” she gushed to nan outlet. “It’s conscionable a beautiful time. I really bask it.”

The self-proclaimed “sucker for nan holidays” admittedly goes each retired during that clip of year.

“I emotion each of nan decorations and nan basking cocoa and nan euphony and nan food, and I’m 1 of those group who really tries to make it retired of a storybook for my kids pinch each of those things,” she shared.

As nan caller twelvemonth approaches, nan vocalist explained that she’s hoping for “a deeper relationship to [herself] and to God,” which she plans to execute by making judge she’s “checking” successful pinch herself truthful she tin beryllium “great for everybody” astir her.

After canceling her “This Is Me… Live” performance tour successful May successful bid to attraction connected her individual life, Jennifer revealed that she’s besides “setting [her] sights connected pushing [her] boundaries creatively and seeing wherever that takes [her] — whether that’s done acting aliases euphony aliases producing aliases expanding JLo Beauty.”

She elaborated, “I want to proceed challenging myself to germinate and to effort caller things while each nan while being existent to who I americium and those that I love.”

The character revenge for divorcement from Affleck, 52, connected nan 2nd day of nan pair’s lavish Georgia wedding ceremony, which they held after eloping successful Las Vegas in July 2022.

She listed nan duo’s day of separation arsenic April 26.

Jennifer and nan actor-turned-director rekindled their romance successful 2021 — astir 20 years aft they called disconnected their first engagement and went connected to wed and person children pinch different people.

Affleck shares Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, pinch his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.