Jennifer Lopez Shares How She’ll ‘Celebrate Being Free and Being Happy’ This Summer (Exclusive)

Jennifer Lopez is fresh to make group get loud this summer!

The host of nan 2025 American Music Awards exclusively told PEOPLE up of nan May 26 awards ceremonial astir nan galore reasons why she’s emotion ecstatic for her upcoming engaged summertime months.

“I’m excited to tour. I’m excited first to spell do Pride,” Lopez, 55, says of headlining WorldPride during June’s Pride Month successful Washington, D.C. “I’m ace excited astir that. I’m moving connected that show correct now excessively arsenic we speak, and crafting nan circuit arsenic well. I’m excited to get backmost retired there.”

“It seems for illustration a cleanable summertime to observe being free and being happy,” she continues of her outlook. “Just everything successful my life correct now conscionable feels really patient and good, and I’m fresh to get retired location and make group singing and creation and person a bully time. That’s ever my goal.”

The Kiss of nan Spider Woman actress will embark connected her Up All Night Live tour, her first circuit successful six years, starting successful Egypt connected July 4.

Lopez besides plans to walk clip this summertime pinch her 17-year-old twins, Emme and Max, whom she shares pinch ex-husband Marc Anthony.

“I deliberation my kids are going to travel to Pride because I’m doing much of a performance [at WorldPride], truthful I’m excited astir that,” she says of her teens joining her amid her summertime gigs. “They’re sweet. They’re nan best.”

Emme and Max, however, won’t beryllium joining their mom for nan AMAs.

“They person school, truthful they can’t come. Sometimes I’ll return them retired of schoolhouse for thing special,” nan proud mother of 2 says.

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The “Can’t Get Enough” singer’s AMAs hosting gig comes 10 years aft she made her AMAs hosting debut successful 2015. This year, nan three-time AMAs victor needed to get stitches aft an AMAs rehearsal mishap.

“I wounded my nose. I deed it successful rehearsal and I had to get stitches. It was fine,” she tells PEOPLE. “A fewer of america person gotten wounded successful rehearsals. We’re doing a very high-energy diversion number truthful it’s, I guess, bound to happen.”

The American Music Awards will aerial unrecorded from nan Fontainebleau Las Vegas astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected CBS and Paramount+.