grow.
There are good periods and difficult periods.
Parents make mistakes, learn, adapt, and continue trying.
Children change too.
They develop their own personalities and their own boundaries.
That reality makes the relationship between a famous parent and a growing child far more human than the glamorous images surrounding them might suggest.
Motherhood Changed the Meaning of Success
Lopez has spoken over the years about how becoming a mother changed her.
This is hardly surprising.
Parenthood has a way of rearranging priorities.
Before children, professional achievements may feel like the clearest markers of progress. A successful project, promotion, award, or financial milestone can seem enormously important.
After becoming a parent, those things may still matter—but they coexist with an entirely different definition of accomplishment.
Sometimes success is simply being there.
It is making time for a conversation despite an exhausting schedule.