The phrase “Bennifer” would possibly embrace flashbacks to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, however every little thing comes again in fashion ultimately. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are spending time collectively, almost 20 years after their romance took the world by storm.
Affleck has reportedly been getting picked up in a white SUV that takes him to Lopez’s Los Angeles residence. It’s simple to grasp why they’d preserve their hangouts on the down-low when remembering their high-profile romance.
The pair first linked in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The two performed gangsters who fall in love whereas making an attempt to kidnap a neurodivergent man. The film flopped on the field workplace and amongst critics, who claimed Affleck and Lopez didn’t have a lot chemistry.
It was a distinct story off-screen. Lopez filed for divorce from second husband Cris Judd in June 2002, and he or she went public with the Good Will Hunting star after.
The “Waiting for Tonight” singer had one other rock on her finger by November. Affleck proposed with a 6-carat pink diamond that had smaller white diamonds on the perimeters.
The ring caught loads of media consideration as did J. Lo’s “Jenny From the Block” music video. Paparazzi caught Bennifer filming in numerous cities all through the autumn earlier than the clip was lastly launched in November. It included loads of scenes of the couple exhibiting their affection for one another.
The duo even welcomed Dateline’s Pat O’Brien into their Vancouver rental residence to debate their relationship, however they wouldn’t say precisely once they fell in love. “You can’t pinpoint it,” Lopez stated. “We became friends first. That is the honest to God truth.”
Their wedding ceremony was set for September 2003, and Lopez stated she’d change her identify to Jennifer Affleck after the marriage. However, they by no means made it to the altar, canceling simply days earlier than the ceremony resulting from “excessive media attention.”
They introduced their official breakup in January 2004. Lopez would marry Marc Anthony in June 2004 whereas Affleck moved on with Jennifer Garner that 12 months as effectively.
Though it didn’t work out, Affleck and Lopez have solely been form to one another within the press. “We just happened to be together at the birth of the tabloids, and it was like ‘Oh, my God.’ It was just a lot of pressure,” she informed PeopleTV’s The Jess Cagle Interview in 2016.
She continued, “I think different time, different thing, who knows what could’ve happened, but there was a genuine love there.”
Affleck, in the meantime, praised her in InStyle in April 2021 as “the hardest-working person I’ve come across in this business. She has great talent, but she has also worked very hard for her success, and I’m so happy for her that she seems, at long last, to be getting the credit she deserves.”
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By April 2022, the couple have been formally engaged for the second time. Lopez revealed that the actor popped the query almost twenty years after their authentic break up.
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