Second time’s the attraction! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged once more after rekindling their romance almost 20 years after their unique break up.
Lopez, 52, confirmed the blissful information by way of her On the JLo e-newsletter on Friday, April 8. In a video message despatched to her followers, an emotional Lopez confirmed off her big, inexperienced diamond engagement ring, saying, “You’re excellent.” She additionally teased the “main announcement” with a video on Twitter. “So I’ve a very thrilling and particular story to share…” the singer instructed her followers, including a diamond ring emoji to her Twitter deal with.
Earlier than the duo have been formally engaged, an insider solely instructed Us Weekly that the pair have been already eager about their dream nuptials. “Each Ben and Jen need their wedding ceremony to be an elaborate assertion of their love story for his or her family and friends,” the supply mentioned in December 2021. “They actually need [everyone] to have an excellent time. They need it to be intimate, however immaculate.”
Earlier this yr, the Marry Me actress admitted that she had by no means dreamed she and Affleck, 49, would get again collectively. “I don’t suppose anyone was extra stunned than us,” she mentioned throughout a February look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present. “You by no means might think about one thing like that might occur. It’s a phenomenal factor.”
The Hustlers star and the Oscar winner initially started their relationship in January 2002 after assembly on the set of the film Gigli. The couple obtained engaged in November of that yr however known as off their wedding ceremony, deliberate for September 2003, due to “extreme media consideration.” 4 months later, they formally broke up.
In June 2004, Lopez married Marc Anthony, with whom she shares twins Max and Emme, 14. The pair break up in 2011 and finalized their divorce in 2014. Affleck, for his half, moved on with Jennifer Garner, whom he married in 2005. The duo, who separated in 2015, share daughters Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and son Samuel, 10.
The couple, affectionately often called Bennifer, made headlines once more in April 2021 once they have been noticed hanging out collectively in Los Angeles shortly after Lopez’s break up from fiancé Alex Rodriguez. Inside one month, a supply instructed Us Weekly that they have been “full-on relationship and really blissful collectively.”
Main announcement!!!! https://t.co/G5oGxtX0z5 pic.twitter.com/HTIqbHMJ2M
— jlo ? (@JLo) April 9, 2022
Earlier than their reunion, the twosome maintained a pleasant relationship. “The place are you preserving the fountain of youth?” the Argo director instructed InStyle in April 2021 for a canopy story on the “Jenny From the Block” songstress. “Why do you look the identical as you probably did in 2003 and it sort of seems to be like I’m in my 40s … at finest?”
In the identical interview, the Means Again star complimented the Bronx native on her large dedication to her profession.
“She stays, to today, the toughest working particular person I’ve come throughout on this enterprise,” the Good Will Looking screenwriter mentioned. “She has nice expertise, however she has additionally labored very laborious for her success, and I’m so blissful for her that she appears, in the end, to be getting the credit score she deserves.”
The Sufficient actress beforehand opened up about how a lot she favored the pink diamond ring that Affleck gave her for his or her first engagement.
“I cherished getting it, don’t get me fallacious,” she mentioned in April 2020, recalling the time Barbra Streisand requested her concerning the sparkler.
The “Ready for Tonight” singer additionally described Affleck as her “first actual heartbreak,” noting that their first break up led to her marriage to Anthony, 53.
“It felt like my coronary heart had been torn out of my chest,” she wrote in her 2014 memoir True Love. “Individuals do a lot of issues to anesthetize themselves in moments like these. Some folks do medicine, some drink and a few exit and get together. I sought out consolation in one other particular person, tried to search out somebody who might make me really feel cherished and needed in my loneliest hours. And that was the second when Marc reappeared in my life.”
In July 2021, an insider instructed Us that the twosome have been “each thrilled” by “how seamlessly” they’d match again into one another’s lives following their reunion.
“The previous few months have been an actual whirlwind,” the supply added on the time. “They’re properly conscious some cynics nonetheless take a look at it as an enormous flashy consideration seize and roll their eyes on the pace of all of it, however it doesn’t faze them one iota. They’re totally dedicated to taking the subsequent steps and spending the remainder of their lives collectively.”