Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Are Engaged 18 Years After Their Original Split
09.04.2022 - 13:49
/ usmagazine.com
Second time’s the charm! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged again after rekindling their romance nearly two decades after their original split.
Lopez, 52, confirmed the happy news via her On the JLo newsletter on Friday, April 8. In a video message sent to her fans, an emotional Lopez showed off her huge, green diamond engagement ring, saying, “You’re perfect.” She also teased the “major announcement” with a video on Twitter. “So I have a really exciting and special story to share…” the singer told her followers, adding a diamond ring emoji to her Twitter handle.
Before the duo were officially engaged, an insider exclusively told Us Weekly that the pair were already thinking about their dream nuptials. “Both Ben and Jen want their wedding to be an elaborate statement of their love story for their friends and family,” the source said in December 2021. “They really want [everyone] to have a good time. They want it to be intimate, but immaculate.”
Earlier this year, the Marry Me actress admitted that she had never dreamed she and Affleck, 49, would get back together. “I don’t think anybody was more surprised than us,” she said during a February appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “You never could imagine something like that could happen. It’s a beautiful thing.”
The Hustlers star and the Oscar winner originally began their relationship in January 2002 after meeting on the set of the movie Gigli. The couple got engaged in November of that year but called off their wedding, planned for September 2003, because of “excessive media attention.” Four months later, they officially broke up.
In June 2004, Lopez married Marc Anthony, with whom she shares twins Max and Emme, 14. The pair split in 2011 and finalized their