The way it began! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s 2021 reunion made tons of headlines, and now the Hustlers star is lastly opening up about the way it all went down.
The “Get Proper” songstress, 53, detailed her romance with the Oscar winner, 50, for the December cowl story of Vogue journal, revealed on Tuesday, November 8. “I at all times felt like there was an actual love there, a real love there,” the New York Metropolis native mentioned of the Argo director. “After we reconnected, these emotions for me had been nonetheless very actual.”
The twosome — who had been initially engaged from 2002 to 2004 — reconnected in early 2021 after Lopez cut up from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. The Shades of Blue alum mentioned that Affleck reached out to her after offering a quote about her for {a magazine}.
The JLo Magnificence founder didn’t specify which article she was referring to, however the Justice League star was quoted in a Could 2021 InStyle cowl story about Lopez that appeared on-line in early April of that 12 months. The Marry Me actress and the previous baseball participant, 47, introduced their cut up lower than two weeks after the article was revealed.
“I assumed I had a very good work ethic, however I used to be fully humbled and blown away by what she was dedicated to doing day in and day trip, the seriousness by which she took her work, the quiet and devoted manner she went about carrying out her targets, after which how she would return and redouble her efforts,” Affleck gushed about his then-ex on the time. “She stays, to today, the hardest-working individual I’ve come throughout on this enterprise. She has nice expertise, however she has additionally labored very laborious for her success, and I’m so comfortable for her that she appears, in the end, to be getting the credit score she deserves.”
He added: “The place are you holding the fountain of youth? Why do you look the identical as you probably did in 2003 and it sort of appears to be like like I’m in my 40s … at finest?”
After Affleck tipped off Lopez about his gushing quote, the duo stayed in contact, and the remaining is historical past. The Good Will Looking author proposed for the second time in April, and the twosome tied the knot in Las Vegas in July.
The next month, that they had a second ceremony at Affleck’s dwelling in Georgia that was attended by their mates, household and youngsters. The Dwell by Evening director shares Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, from whom he cut up in 2015. Lopez, for her half, shares twins Max and Emme, 14, with ex-husband Marc Anthony.
“Ben and Jen are nonetheless of their honeymoon section,” an insider completely advised Us Weekly in October. “They’re very head over heels for one another. Changing into husband and spouse hasn’t modified their relationship a lot, apart from the truth that it solidified what that they had.”
Hold scrolling for extra revelations from Lopez’s Vogue cowl story.
