Jennifer Lopez reveals Christmas plans after ‘intense’ Ben Affleck split

Jennifer Lopez is getting into nan vacation tone contempt her looming divorcement from Ben Affleck.

The “Let’s Get Loud” singer, 55, told People how she plans to observe Christmas adjacent period aft breaking disconnected her two-year matrimony to nan “Argo” actor, 52.

“It was a beautiful aggravated twelvemonth for maine and I’m astir looking guardant to spending clip pinch my kids and my family coming retired from nan East Coast,” she shared successful nan question and reply published Tuesday.

“The holidays are specified a typical clip for america and they’ve ever been since I was a small girl,” Lopez 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 superstar’s family includes mom Guadalupe Rodriguez, sisters Lynda and Leslie Lopez, and her 16-year-old twins Max and Emme, who she shares pinch ex-husband Marc Anthony.

Lopez, who spent nan past 2 vacation seasons joined to Affleck, said she’s looking astatine this year’s festivities arsenic a chance to “slow down” and “enjoy” clip pinch her loved ones.

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

Lopez further gushed astir nan holidays, “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. I’m a sucker for nan holidays.”

The “Unstoppable” star besides looked up to nan caller twelvemonth and said that 2025, for her, “is astir a deeper relationship to myself and to God, making judge we’re checking pinch ourselves truthful we tin beryllium awesome for everybody that we emotion astir us.”

“I’m besides mounting my sights connected pushing my boundaries creatively and seeing wherever that takes me, whether that’s done acting aliases euphony aliases producing aliases expanding JLo Beauty,” she went on. “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.”

Lopez filed to dissolve her national pinch Affleck successful Los Angeles County Superior Court connected Aug. 20, nan two-year day of nan couple’s 2nd wedding ceremony. She listed the day of separation arsenic Apr. 26, 2024.

The “Shotgun Wedding” prima is reportedly still surviving successful her and Affleck’s $68 cardinal Beverly Hills mansion that deed nan marketplace successful July, but has yet to sell.

Affleck, meanwhile, bought a $20.5 cardinal Los Angeles mansion complete nan summer.

An August study claimed Lopez isn’t comfortable surviving successful their erstwhile marital home, because it’s “way excessively large for her and filled pinch excessively galore memories arsenic well.”

Lopez addressed her divorcement from Affleck while speaking to Nikki Glaser for Interview Magazine last month, admitting her “whole f—ing world exploded” aft nan A-listers ended their romance.

She besides said that she wants to beryllium azygous aft her fourth divorce.

“I’m not looking for anybody, because everything that I’ve done complete nan past 25, 30 years, being successful these different challenging situations, what tin I f–king do erstwhile it’s conscionable maine flying connected my own,” she explained.

Affleck, for his part, made a uncommon remark astir Lopez recently while discussing their upcoming movie “Unstoppable.”

He told Entertainment Tonight that Lopez “is spectacular” successful nan film, which he produced, while she plays nan mother of a one-legged athlete.

The exes filmed “Unstoppable” earlier they separated. Lopez attended the film’s world premiere at nan Toronto International Film Festival successful September, while Affleck did not.