The word “Bennifer” may include flashbacks to lip gloss and butterfly clips, but it’s all coming back in style. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez who spent time together, almost 20 years after the romance that took the world by storm.
Affleck was reportedly taken in a white SUV that took him to Lopez’s Los Angeles home. It’s easy to understand why they stick around when they remember their famous romance.
The couple was first linked in 2002 on the set of a bad fate Lili. Both play gangsters who fall in love while trying to kidnap a neurodivergent. The film failed at the box office and among critics, who claimed Affleck and Lopez lacked chemistry.
It’s a different story on screen. Lopez filed for divorce from his second wife Chris Judd in June 2002, and he became public with Good Will Hunting star after.
The “Waiting for the Night” singer has another rock on his fingers by November. Affleck proposed wearing a 6-carat pink diamond with a small white diamond on the side.
The ring attracted as much media attention as J. Lo’s “Jenny From the Block” music video. Paparazzi caught Bennifer filming in various cities throughout the fall before the clip was finally released in November. It includes many scenes of couples showing affection for each other.
The duo was even welcomed Dateline‘s Pat O’Brien to a Vancouver rental home to discuss their relationship, but they won’t say exactly when they fell in love. “You can’t define it,” Lopez said. “We became friends first. That’s honest to God.”
Their wedding was set for September 2003, and Lopez said she would change her name to Jennifer Affleck after the wedding. However, he never made it to the altar, canceling a few days before the ceremony due to “too much media exposure.”
They announced their official breakup in January 2004. Lopez is getting married Marc Anthony in June 2004 when Affleck moved in Jennifer Garner that year too.
Even if it doesn’t work out, Affleck and Lopez are just nice to the press. “We just happened to be together at the birth of the tabloids, and it was like ‘Oh my God.’ It’s just a lot of pressure,” he told PeopleTV’s The Jess Cagle Interview in 2016.
He continued, “I think it was a different time, different, who knows what could have happened, but there is true love.”
Meanwhile, Affleck praised her in InStyle in April 2021 as “the hardest-working person I’ve ever met in this business. She’s got great talent, but she’s also worked hard to be successful, and I’m so happy that she’s seen, finally, get the credit you deserve.
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In April 2022, the couple officially became engaged for the second time. Lopez revealed that the actor popped the question nearly two decades after their original split.