The phrase “Bennifer” would possibly embrace flashbacks to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, however all the things 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 house. It’s simple to grasp why they’d preserve their hangouts on the down-low when remembering their high-profile romance.
The pair first related in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The 2 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 Looking star after.
The “Ready 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 edges.
The ring caught loads of media consideration as did J. Lo’s “Jenny From the Block” music video. Paparazzi caught Bennifer filming in varied cities all through the autumn earlier than the clip was lastly launched in November. It included loads of scenes of the couple displaying their affection for one another.
The duo even welcomed Dateline’s Pat O’Brien into their Vancouver rental house to debate their relationship, however they wouldn’t say precisely after they fell in love. “You may’t pinpoint it,” Lopez mentioned. “We turned associates first. That’s the trustworthy to God reality.”
Their marriage ceremony was set for September 2003, and Lopez mentioned she’d change her identify to Jennifer Affleck after the marriage. Nonetheless, they by no means made it to the altar, canceling simply days earlier than the ceremony because of “extreme media consideration.”
They introduced their official breakup in January 2004. Lopez would marry Marc Anthony in June 2004 whereas Affleck moved on with Jennifer Garner that yr as nicely.
Although it didn’t work out, Affleck and Lopez have solely been sort to one another within the press. “We simply occurred to be collectively on the delivery of the tabloids, and it was like ‘Oh, my God.’ It was simply a number of strain,” she advised PeopleTV’s The Jess Cagle Interview in 2016.
She continued, “I feel totally different time, totally different factor, who is aware of what might’ve occurred, however there was a real love there.”
Affleck, in the meantime, praised her in InStyle in April 2021 as “the hardest-working particular person I’ve come throughout on this enterprise. She has nice expertise, however she has additionally labored very exhausting for her success, and I’m so comfortable for her that she appears, in the end, to be getting the credit score she deserves.”