Jennifer Lopez: That's why Ben Affleck is now raving about her

Since 2001: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's relationship at a glance

The year is 2021. Everything seemed normal – untilpublicly announced that they had rekindled their relationship 20 years after the first date. The Internet? On fire! The paparazzi? Completely perplexed! Us like that? In a rush of nostalgia. It was like 2001 whentook the world by storm for the first time.

But this time they tied the knot perfectly. A month after announcing their engagement, they eloped to Las Vegas and tied the knot. Only later was there a proper celebration at Affleck's estate. However, the luck didn't last particularly long. You can read about what happened from the beginning until now here.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck: Relationship at a glance

In the common life ofand Ben Affleck, far too much has happened to list here. However, we have summarized the most important events.

2001

Spark alert: In December the two filmed the rather bad romcom “Gigli” and fell in love on set.

2002

November: Affleck doespropose with a custom-made pink solitaire engagement ring. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Lopez gushed that the "Good Will Hunting" actor was "brilliantly intelligent, loving, charming and affectionate." She added: "I just admire him in every way."

2003

September: A few days before the wedding in Santa Barbara, California, the two release a statement saying they are postponing the wedding.

“Due to excessive media interest in our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date,” the statement said. “When we found ourselves seriously considering hiring three different 'fake brides' in three different locations, we realized something was wrong. We felt that the spirit of what should have been the happiest day of our lives might be marred. We felt that a joyful and holy day for us, our families and our friends could be spoiled.”

2004

January: Less than three months later, the wedding is called off forever. The couple confirmed their separation in separate statements. Lopez's rep released the following statement: “Jennifer Lopez has called off her engagement to Ben Affleck. During this difficult time, we ask that you respect your privacy.” Affleck's rep adds: "I will not confirm anything about his personal life. We don’t want to be dragged into the quicksand. Everyone wants a war. From our side, that won’t happen.”

What you need to know at this point: Affleck and Lopez were the targets of real chases by the paparazzi. The singer also discussed this fact in the music video for “Jenny from the Block”.

From 2004 to 2021

In June 2001, just six months after, Jennifer Lopez married Marc Anthony, and in 2008 the couple had twins Emme and Max Muñiz. In 2011 they announced their divorce.

Affleck married Jennifer Garner exactly one year after Lopez and Anthony's wedding, in June 2005. They had three children, Violet, Fin and Samuel, before splitting in 2015. The couple's divorce was finalized in 2018.

2021

April: Affleck will visit Lopez at her home in Los Angeles on April 30, a source tells Us magazinePeople. “They are friends. They have always been friends and have seen each other on and off over the years,” said another source.

However, the US gossip portal TMZ claimed that Affleck and Lopez were already dating before Lopez and her ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez separated in early 2021. Insiders tell the paper that Lopez and Affleck have been emailing each other regularly since early February, when she was filming the film “Shotgun Wedding” in the Dominican Republic. Allegedly, Affleck's emails were "loving" and showed "longing" for Lopez.

May: After a quick trip to Montana, Affleck and Lopez are spotted together in Los Angeles and Miami. A source told People that the two are in daily communication.

June: Lopez is reportedly moving back to Los Angeles for a “fresh start” with Affleck, E! News. A source revealed that she is "giving up her apartment in Miami" and leaving the city where she lived with her ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. Also in June, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck and Lopez's mother, Guadalupe Rodríguez, met.

In mid-June, Affleck and Lopez were finally spotted making out at dinner and showing their affection in public. At the end of June 2021, a photo showed how familiar the couple was with each other at a private invitation at the Avra ​​Beverly Hills Estiatorio. A source also revealed: “Ben always looks very happy when he’s with Jen. She spends as much time with Ben as possible.”

July: In an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe on July 6, Lopez said she's currently having the "best time" of her life. In mid-July, the couple was photographed in front of a $65 million mansion that they reportedly viewed while house hunting in Holmby Hills (a chic Los Angeles neighborhood). On July 24th the time had finally come: On the pop star's 52nd birthday, Lopez posted a picture of herself and Ben Affleck smooching on her Instagram feed. It was the fourth picture in the photo carousel, but that still counts!

August: This month was all about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's families. "Since Jennifer and Ben are together long-term, it's only a natural step for them to spend all of their time with the kids," a source saidPeople. “They’re not trying to rush anything, but they want all the kids to get to know each other. They make the last days of summer as fun as they can. Soon it will be back to school and work.”

September: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck make their red carpet debut. They appear together at the premiere of “The Last Duel” at the Venice Film Festival - and. On September 13th the Met Gala took place in New York, of course with Bennifer (and a kiss that is still slightly disturbing to this day). It was already said back then that the couple wanted to spend the holidays together - including their entire group of children.

2022

February: For Valentine's Day, Jennifer Lopez shares intimate insights from her life with Ben Affleck with her newsletter subscribers. In “On My Way: The Remix,” she combined a performance of her song with photos and videos from her first relationship in the early 2000s. It ends with a sweet kissing selfie of the two from their rekindled romance, which began in spring 2021.

"I'm going to share something very special and personal with you that I would normally only share with my closest circle," she explained at the time. “It’s an early Valentine’s Day gift from Ben. It made me think about the journey of true love, its unexpected twists and turns and how, if it is real, it can actually last forever.” She added: “That melted my heart.”

April: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. After Lopez was spotted wearing a ring on her finger, sparking rumors about her current relationship status with Affleck, the singer announced "big news" on Twitter. In her newsletter, she finally presented subscribers with her engagement ring, which she admired in a video with tears in her eyes. In the same newsletter, Lopez also explained that the green engagement ring had a special meaning: "I realized that there are many moments in my life where amazing things happened when I wore green." Apparently Affleck proposed to her while she was taking a bath.

July:She is now officially Jennifer Lynn Affleck. In her newsletter, the singer reported: "Last night we flew to Las Vegas, standing in line for a license with four other couples all making the same trip to the wedding capital of the world." They wanted “the world to recognize us as partners and for us to declare our love to the world through the ancient and almost universal symbol of marriage.”

August: Celebrated on August 20thin front of her friends and family with an elaborate oneat Affleck's estate in Georgia. LoudPeopleLopez walked down the aisle in a white, structured Ralph Lauren gown with a dramatic train and a delicate, flowing veil. Affleck complemented his bride in a tuxedo with a white jacket and black pants. Of course, Lopez took a moment to serenade her lover during the party. The newlywed couple went to Italy on their honeymoon.

2023

January: Jennifer Lopez reveals that the two families now live together! In an interview, she said: "We moved in together, the kids moved in together, so it was a really emotional transition, but at the same time all dreams come true."

February: On February 5th the two came to the together– and Ben Affleck looked super bored. But he only looked it, because for Valentine's Day on February 14th, Bennifer got tattoos with her initials/name. It must be love?

May: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez buy a house!! Yes, a palace built for two people... plus a few more. Twelve bedrooms, 24 baths on a 5 acre lot. According to reports, the two had been searching for two years and finally found what they were looking for.

August: On the anniversary of her big wedding, Jennifer Lopez shares never-before-seen photos from the celebration on Instagram.

2024

March: The two are spotted looking for an apartment together in New York.

6. May:Jennifer Lopez attended the Met Gala in New York alone. She was one of the gala co-chairs alongside Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth, Bad Bunny and Anna Wintour and attended the event without Affleck by her side. It is reported that her significant other stayed in Los Angeles to attend the Netflix comedy show “The Roast of Tom Brady,” which was filmed the night before.

15. May: After J.Lo was photographed checking out homes in Los Angeles with her producing partner, People magazine reportedInTouch, that Affleck has moved out of their shared apartment and that the couple is heading for a divorce.

“Ben has already moved out and they will probably have to sell the dream home they have been looking for for two years. They will never stop loving each other, but she can't control him and he can't change her. There is no way it could have continued,” the magazine claims. "They waited nearly two decades to get back together, but in the end they just couldn't... Both said they've matured and learned from their mistakes, but some of the bigger issues that tore them apart the first time around remained the same.”

16. May: The portalTMZfuels divorce rumors by posting a photo of Affleck driving with the windows down in Los Angeles. The tabloid reports that he is currently leaving a house in Brentwood where he reportedly spent the last few nights.

21. May: Several anonymous sources have now come forward about the divorce rumors surrounding Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck: They claim that Ben Affleck is reluctant to live in public - but Jennifer Lopez sees it exactly differently. These different perspectives allegedly led to the split.

What no one expected, however, was that after a dry spell of 47 days, there was another photo of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck together when they picked up Lopez's child Emme after a theater performance at school.

1 June:Jennifer Lopez has canceled her US tour. Tour organizer LiveNation gave the reason that the singer wanted to “take some time out for friends and family”. The 54-year-old artist confirmed the cancellation in her newsletter “On the JLo”. Jennifer Lopez said she was “devastated” because she had to let her fans down. At the same time, she assured that this tour cancellation was urgently necessary, but did not elaborate on other reasons.

However, fans do not suspect family or the alleged divorce rumors behind the canceled concerts in autumn 2024: UpX (formerly Twitter)It was claimed that hardly any tickets were sold for the shows and even the breakup rumors were only intended to fuel advance sales. That obviously didn't work. Why Jennifer Lopez herstour actually canceled remains unclear.

10 June:About a month after Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck divorce rumors emergedTMZ, that the couple has commissioned the real estate agent Santiago Arana to sell their shared house. It's a big hit for the gossip press, but if you consider that given Bennifer's fortune, changing real estate is a bit like going to the Italian restaurant around the corner, her planned sale is far from a sure sign of a separation.

21 June:In a podcast, Ben Affleck commented on the stress that Jennifer Lopez's popularity caused him. In “Hart to Hart” by comedian Kevin Hart, Affleck admitted that he was “rather shy” – which is why he preferred being a directorbehindthe camera than as an actorbeforethe camera. His shyness is also the reason why he always looks very annoyed in paparazzi photos: “Because they always hold a camera in front of my nose” and he doesn’t understand it, says Affleck.

However, when paparazzi take pictures of his children, the Oscar winner is not at all joking: “Take pictures of me - in a club, at a premiere - I don't even really notice you. But things look different when it comes to photos of my children,” admits the father of three in an interview with Kevin Hart.

Ben Affleck seems to remember one incident in particular: “We were on the way to a play, we were late and had to walk a few hundred meters. “So all of us, including the kids, in Times Square, and then all fucking hell broke loose: There was this woman smoking weed in a purple skin-tight bodysuit,” he remembers. “And she saw us, started filming on her smartphone and screamed 'JLo!'”. Then of course everyone became, well, reallyall, attention to us. Jen, I and our five kids tried to move on, but it felt like there were just hundreds of people screaming and blocking us now.” It's too much for him, especially since he always has to pretend that he's not panicking and that he thinks it's all cool. He simply couldn't stand this level of notoriety and that's why he always put on his grumpy face, Affleck explained in the podcast episode.

28 June: In the middle of the (supposed) separation drama, hope arises for Bennifer fans. According to US media reports, Jennifer Lopez was seen driving to Ben Affleck's office after returning from Fashion Week in Paris. And him? According to the same platforms, put his wedding ring back on after he was seen without the ring on his finger last week. What does that mean? Unclear. What is certain is that the two are still talking to each other and the separation is still a rumor that has not been officially confirmed.

17 July: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez spent their second wedding anniversary apart on July 16. While the singer was spotted riding a bike through the Hamptons, her husband Ben Affleck was spotted in Los Angeles heading to his office. Just a few days ago, Lopez and Affleck put their shared villa up for sale on a real estate website. It is not known whether the stars will reconcile or whether there is a rational explanation for the wedding day on two different coasts.

21 July:Just before her 55th birthday, Jennier Lopez is throwing a “Brigerton”-themed party in the Hamptons. The MagazinePeoplereports on the work on site and shows some guests who were dressed appropriately. But where is Ben Affleck? He's on the other side of the USA in Los Angeles and has no plans to fill Jennifer Lopez's dance card that evening. But even without his presence, the singer seemed to be looking forward to the day and wrote under a selfie on Instagram: “Today is going to be a great day 🤍🙏🏼”.

An anonymous source also told the magazine that their marriage is currently in "deep trouble." But whatever these problems are, there have been some positive updates. Affleck was photographed wearing his wedding ring as recently as July 19, while Lopez recently wore his initials on a bracelet while strolling in the Hamptons. Maybe Affleck is simply waiting for a written invitation to visit his wife.

7. August: Apparently Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck haven't seen each other for weeks, as US media consistently report. According to the magazinePeopleThe two have reportedly been going their separate ways for weeks, and Jennifer Lopez is even looking for a new house so she can make a fresh start without her current husband. So far, however, the couple has remained tight-lipped when it comes to their relationship status. An insider told the US portalEntertainment TonightHowever, they reveal that the two are just waiting for the right time to announce their separation. “They want to make sure that the separation goes smoothly,” the anonymous source is quoted as saying. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are handling their breakup very humanely, understandingly and lovingly, the source continued.

21. August:It's official – Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are getting divorced. On August 20, 2024, the singer filed divorce papers in Los Angeles after a good two years of marriage. The surprising love comeback in summer 2021, the rushing (and sometimes quite...)and Jennifer Lopez's film, in which Affleck still appears, couldn't prevent what has now happened: Bennifer 2.0 are over.

29. August:

Star separations fuel one thing above all else: rumors! And if we remember the whole tabloid drama of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's broken engagement in 2004, it was almost clear: this time it won't be much different. While back then - in the dark Middle Ages in the land of empowerment - the narrative that Jennifer Lopez was an unbearable dragon was dominant, this time both stars are getting their fat off.

This is what some “private sources” and supposed “insiders” claimin reports fromPeople Magazine, theSunand other media now that Jennifer Lopez “tried everything to make Ben Affleck happy,” but that he was simply a victim of his dark demons. Ben Affleck has a big problem with his frustration and anger management and often let himself go emotionally in front of Jennifer Lopez. Rumors that parts of the social media community continue to spin by digging up all the pictures from the last few years in which Ben Affleck looks somehow unhappy.

People Magazinealso reported that friends of the recently divorced couple had claimed that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck simply had incompatible personalities - she loved the spotlight, while he had already had enough of all the press during their honeymoon. A circumstance that other media interpret as if Jennifer Lopez dragged Ben Affleck into the spotlight.

Opposite Page SixOn the other hand, another ominous insider claimed that Ben Affleck was said to have had an affair with Kick Kennedy (the daughter of Robert Kennedy Jr.), with whom he was - also allegedly - seen in Los Angeles shortly after his separation from Jennifer Lopez.

The only thing that seems certain at the moment when it comes to the reason for the separation of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck is that people continue to enjoy the perfidious game of rumor-mongering and that they often forget that these are two people acts that do not owe anyone a reason.

06. September 2024:

showed off a lot of skin at the “Unstoppable” premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. That in itself wouldn't be particularly noteworthy, but fans on social media realized that there was one thing missing from JLo's naked flank: her infinity tattoo for Ben Affleck, which she proudly presented to her followers on Valentine's Day 2023 - and which she commented with the word “commitment”.

Well, as we now know, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's marriage wasn't quite as binding in the end. So is that why she had the tattoo removed? Quite possible - but since such a removal can sometimes take several months, it is just as possible that Jennifer Lopez made the tattoo disappear for the occasion with a special cover-up make-up.

14. September 2024:

On September 14, the two recent exes were spotted outside the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, where they were reportedly having lunch with their kids. While many fans thought Ben Affleck looked "upset" in the photos DeuxMoi shared on Instagram, the celebrity gossip account claimed that wasn't the case. “There are a lot of pictures of him smiling but you could see the kids in them so we didn't post them,” DeuxMoi wrote in a reply.

Different sources spin different narratives. Some say you have Ben and JLoseen kissing. Others claim the sentiment is generalbeen tense. Despite everything, the consensus seems to be that Jennifer and Ben will break up - as friends. Your children have become good friends, and of course they don't want to have radio silence between them straight away.Page Sixwrites that the children were always the priority for the two of them.

10 October 2024:

, how difficult it was for her to be single shortly after the separation and reveals what she expects from a new partner.

4. November 2024:

Ben Affleck makes it abundantly clear how much he (still) appreciates Jennifer Lopez during his film promo for “Unstoppable.” In the sports drama that Ben Affleck co-produced, Jennifer Lopez was, in Affleck's words, "spectacular."Page Sixreported. And that's not all, Affleck also raved extensively about his ex-partner's work ethic: "I thought I had a good work ethic, but I was completely overwhelmed by what she brought to the table day in and day out, by the seriousness of it the way she did her work, the calm and dedicated manner with which she pursued her goals.”

This article is updated regularly.