Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck: The love story of one of the most beautiful couples of the 2000s and modern times has ended

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck no longer rule the roost, but we can’t say the same for the media space. The couple’s love story has sadly come to an end. Today it was learned that the singer has filed for divorce from the actor.

One of the reasons for the separation is a misunderstanding. They write that Affleck could not accept that Lopez spoke in such detail about their personal lives. The history of the stars is really long and beautiful, despite what happened. We invite you to remember how it all began and how, unfortunately, it ended. But first, promise to continue to believe in love!

familiar

The fateful meeting took place in 2001 on the set of the romantic comedy Gigli (2003), where a couple in love were portrayed: she played an unlucky gangster, he played a brutal killer.

Although the film flopped at the box office (only grossing $7.2 million against a $54 million budget and six Golden Raspberry awards), we can’t help but thank it (albeit temporarily) for the couple it gave us.

Then, it would seem, everything went well: JLo was just getting divorced from Chris Judd, and Ben Affleck was “moving on” from his breakup with Sandra Bullock. In general, the love on camera turned into real feelings, and a spark ran between the actors, which soon made them the most popular couple in Hollywood.

Getting engaged

In 2002, it became known that the stars were planning to make their relationship official. And to say that the tabloids were literally flooded with news about the couple at that time is to say nothing. What exactly the proposal looked like is still unknown, but J. Lo described this moment as “beautiful and unforgettable.” The ring was no less beautiful: Harry Winston, a six-carat pink diamond, costing two and a half million dollars (J. Lo herself called the gift “the most magnificent thing she’s ever seen” in a 2002 interview).

But J.Lo herself later said in an interview: People In 2016: “We didn’t try to make our relationship public. We were together at the height of tabloid popularity. There was a lot of pressure.”

Yes, their relationship developed rapidly and looked like true love: they went out on the red carpet together, were caught by the paparazzi almost every day, and Ben Affleck even got a cameo in the video of his chosen one for the song Jenny. Block.

They also appeared in films together again and starred in the film Jersey Girl (2004).

He talked about his ex-girlfriend at the time on the 2010 program The Graham Norton Show“I love Ben, he’s a great guy, but being under siege for two years in a row was tough on both of us. We were on the cover of every magazine every week, which was weird to say the least. I think our relationship suffered because of it, but it’s not the only reason.”

It remained only to wait for beautiful photos from the wedding, but on the eve of the approved date of the celebration (they were supposed to exchange vows on September 14, 2003), an official statement appeared from the couple about the postponement of the ceremony.

“Due to overwhelming interest in our wedding, we decided to reschedule. When we found ourselves seriously considering hiring three separate ‘bait brides’ in three different locations, we knew something was wrong. We began to sense that what was supposed to be the happiest day of our lives was in jeopardy. ‘We felt like a joyful and sacred day could be ruined for us, our families and friends.’

separation

JLo and Ben Affleck blamed the tabloids for the close attention, but the truth is: the most beautiful couple of the early 2000s are no longer together. And maybe at first it was just rumors, but four months later Jennifer Lopez officially confirmed the sad news. “We kindly ask that you respect her privacy during this difficult time,” the star’s representative said in a statement.

She later wrote in her 2014 book True Love: “Ben and I broke up just when I thought we were forever. It was the first time my heart had ever been truly broken. It felt like it was being ripped out of my chest. I was seeking solace in another person, someone to make me feel loved and wanted in my hours of deep loneliness. Mark (Anthony – Ed.) came into my life three days after I said “I do” to another man at the altar.

In fact, she did not stay in the “single” status for very long, and just five months after breaking up with Ben Affleck, she married singer, composer and friend Marc Anthony, and three years later they had twins together (Maximillian David and Emma Maribel). But her ex-lover was not upset either, and in 2005, a year after the separation, he married actress Jennifer Garner, who gave him two daughters and a son: Violet Anne Affleck, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck and Samuel Garner Affleck.

It seemed that each of them was happy in a new relationship, but a series of separations proved the opposite: first, in 2011, it became known that J. Lo broke up with Marc Anthony (the couple filed for divorce only in 2014), then in 2015, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner also announced the breakup of their union (they officially divorced in 2018).

Perhaps even then a high-profile reunion could have been expected, but fate decreed otherwise: dancer Casper Smart, rapper Drake and baseball player Alex Rodriguez appeared on the horizon for Jennifer Lopez, and Ben Affleck developed feelings for actress Ana de Armas after filming the thriller “The Deep Ones.” But the waters turned out to be not so deep, so at the beginning of this year the stars broke up, and just a few months later it became known that the engagement of J. Lo and Alex Rodriguez was broken off.

Reunification

The first rumors about a reboot of “Bennifer” emerged immediately after the announcement that Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez had broken up. Sources close to the couple said they were in constant communication and correspondence, and then the Daily Mail added fuel to the fire with joint photos of the stars leaving the plane.

But the official confirmation of love came only a few months later, when J. Lo and Ben Affleck were caught kissing. Then, perhaps, no one had any doubts. The couple was occasionally seen together on walks and dates, spent time with their children, shone on the red carpet and had already made their relationship public on social networks when their romantic photos were published on Jennifer Lopez’s account on her birthday.

Wedding

In the spring of 2022, Ben Affleck proposed to Jennifer Lopez, giving her a luxurious emerald-diamond ring. And already in July, the couple secretly got married in Las Vegas. But the newlyweds did not stop celebrating their love. Literally a month after the picture, the couple threw a grand party at the mansion of their new husband, located near Risboro (Georgia).

Last

But the couple’s love also had an expiration date. In the spring, the press wrote that the couple turned to a psychologist to save their relationship. At first, all the news around the couple was perceived as rumors, but they did not cease to subside and flared up more and more every day. Probably, the actor’s act and his subsequent absence from Lopez’s birthday party left no doubt that they were close to parting. And in early August, the Daily Mail reported that the couple had filed documents for divorce. The official date of the lovers’ separation was reportedly April 26. The last…