brooke- Five/six months of going it alone probably DOES seem like a long time when you’ve got twins! Anyway..yes, they did have help before, but I think it was pretty much the same kind of help us “ordinary” folks get…their family.

J-LO mentioned in another recent interview that (prior to getting the nanny, anyway), she and Mark leave the twins with their grandma or aunt (J-Lo’s sister).

A few other celebs do this as well. For example, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have said they don’t have a nanny for Harlow, but leave her with one of her grandmothers or her uncle Benji (Joel’s twin brother) when they go out.

Also, let’s face it, even most “normal” people techincally have help with their babies. It’s just not in the form of nannies, chefs, etc. Usually it is in the form of family members and/or close friends.

There’s nothing wrong with a nanny, how else are parents supposed to work without help and what celebrity doesn’t have a nanny nowadays. What’s weird of her to say is that she did it alone for a long time lol. Her twins are only 6 months and if she got a nanny a few weeks ago they were 5 months, so that’s comsidered a long time lol. Plus even without a nanny, marc said they had help from people in the house, so it might not have been a formal nanny but they had help, you can see plenty of pics the last few months of jlo out with marc and no babies around.

I know that the nanny comments are going to start soon but I just wanted to point out ahead of time that celebs hiring nannies (in most cases – not all) is not any different than our kids going to daycare so we can work. I think it is great that they can afford them and have someone in the kids’ own environment without the paps around or trying to get in like they could at a daycare. We have no idea how fortunate we are that our babies are not subjected to that. I think that she waited long enough trying to have children that she wouldn’t let a nanny “raise” her kids like some celebs out there….

I am not surprised she finally hired one! Twins are hard work.

There is nothing better than your child smiling at you…