Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez has dismissed rumours that her children Max and Emme were conceived using IVF or other fertility treatments.

The star was rumoured to have turned to medical help after failing to conceive a much-desired baby naturally and speculation increased after she was revealed to be having twins - but the new mum has told People magazine that wasn’t the case.

She explained: “It was natural. We didn’t do in vitro, which I know was reported. Everybody assumed that because we had twins.”

“I wanted to have a baby, but I’ve always said exactly what I said all those years [everyone] asked us since we’ve been married: ‘Well, when are you guys gonna have some kids?’ ‘When it happens naturally, I guess!’ And that’s when it happened. It was a surprise to us.”

But she admits she did begin to have doubts about whether she would ever become pregnant: “You start getting older, you think to yourself, ‘Maybe [having kids] is just not meant for me.’”

“[But] I knew there was nothing wrong with me. I knew that I could. Deep down, I really wanted it badly… [But] after one year, two years, three years… You know, you start thinking to yourself, ‘Well, maybe…’”

Max and Emme arrived last month. The pair are Jennifer’s first children and the fourth and fifth children of her husband Marc Anthony.