Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck first met in 2002 on the set of Gigli. The actors may not have won any awards given the reviews the film received, but they still got the best reward of all: love. Their love at first sight, they had even transformed it into an engagement before the latter were finally canceled in 2004.
The two exes had since rebuilt their lives, several times. Jennifer Lopez lived with Marc Anthony, her ex-husband and father of her two children Emme and Max, then with Alex Rodriguez. Ben Affleck meanwhile married actress Jennifer Garner, a union that saw the birth of three children: Violet, Seraphina and Samuel. To find themselves after so long, after having built their lives to enjoy only their love, was therefore the best thing that could have happened to them.
Jennifer Lopez already welcomed it in an interview with People : “I feel so lucky, happy and proud to be with him. It’s a wonderful love story to have had a second chance.“The singer had also hidden nothing of all the pride she had in Ben Affleck:”I’m so proud of him, of the man he has become. (…) Seeing the person, human being, man, father and partner he is today – he is so much everything I knew he was and wanted to be. ” Married to Jennifer Lopez, his love of youth, on top of the market. Too classy.