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Engaged again! Nearly one year later Jennifer LopezAnd Ben AffleckThey got engaged with a massive, natural stone to rekindle their 2000s-era romance.
The Hustlers star, 52, confirmed the news in a brief video clip shared via her “On The J.Lo” newsletter on Friday, April 8.
“You’re perfect,” Lopez whispered in the clip, while the camera panned to her massive rock. The ring features a huge green stone, flanked by two smaller stones on each side.
The native New Yorker and the Argo Director, 49, has yet to address the proposal news or ring selection processes, as its color holds special significance.
“I always say the color green is my lucky color. Maybe you remember a certain green dress,” Lopez wrote in a previous edition of her newsletter, referring to the Versace gown she wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000. “I’ve realized there are many moments in my life where amazing things happened when I was wearing green.”
After the Marry me The actress wore the midriff-baring gown to the awards show. Later, she wore a revised version at a Versace runway event.
“[Donatella Versace] was like, ‘you know it’s been 20 years’ and I was like ‘are you kidding me? F—k,’” Lopez told reporters during the September 2019 launch event for her Promise fragrance, noting the 66-year-old designer hoped to craft an entire collection around the jungle print. The mother of two — she shares 14-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex-husband Marc Anthony — wore the reimagined gown for the show’s finale.
“We knew it would be a fun moment but we did not know, just like the first time, that it would be like a thing,” the “On the Floor” singer said. “We didn’t know that it was so viral. I don’t think about it much, but it’s super cool, something to tell your kids who love computers and the internet and all that stuff. … [The show]Gianni’s birthday was celebrated [Versace]Her brother. It was a beautiful moment for her and I was happy to be a part of it.”
Lopez and Affleck, who were previously engaged between 2002 and 2004, reconnected in May 2021 following her split from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. The romance between the “Let’s Get Loud” performer and the Last Duel star — who shares Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner — quickly heated up as they blended their families and started house-hunting.
“Both Ben and Jen want their wedding to be an elaborate statement of their love story for their friends and family,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly In December 2021, they noted that a proposal was possible. “They really want [everyone]to have fun. They want it to be intimate, but immaculate.”
