Jennifer Lopez is lastly prepared to flip a new web page and transfer on from the Ben Affleck chapter. Despite the blossoming spring season because the backdrop, the singer-actress skilled “the biggest heartbreak” of her life once more. JLo confessed in 2022 – the yr Bennifer received hitched, giving their love a second likelihood – that it felt like she “was going to die” when, 20 years in the past, the Gigli co-stars referred to as off their marriage ceremony in 2003 and in the end break up up the subsequent yr. An identical fateful finish adopted Bennifer 2.0 in 2024.
And whereas this yr’s heartbreak “really did a number on her,” JLo is prepared to transfer on to higher issues. A supply informed Life & Style, per an October 2 report, that Lopez has now entered the introspective section after going separate methods with Affleck, whom she as soon as referred to as the love of her life. Four divorces later, “an all new JLo” is within the making as ‘she wants to start a new chapter.”
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck not on the identical web page about their rekindled relationship?
Several stories voicing sources from both facet of the connection have launched campaigns in opposition to the opposite. Yet, this newest dialog has once more doubled down on JLo’s love for the Air actor-director. “She was all in. She thought Ben was, too,” the insider claimed.
Notably, Lopez’s falling aside marriage aligned with the unlucky timeline of her profession disaster. All three tasks launched this yr – This is Me… Now (film), the same-titled album and The Greatest Love Story Never Told (documentary) – billed and marketed as her ardour tasks failed to hit the proper notes with the audience. In truth, the JLo documentary maxed its returns solely after the ill-timed separation gossip hit the ground.
More unhealthy days adopted in May when Jenny from the Block’s Netflix sci-fi film Atlas additionally failed to flip the tide on her skilled entrance. Lopez was in the end pushed to cancel her summer time live performance tour as nicely, with stories citing low ticket gross sales as the ultimate nail within the coffin regardless of Lopez stating in any other case that she wanted day without work to “be with her children, family and close friends.”
Even because the pair appears to be nonetheless figuring their manner out of a messy divorce, Ben and Jen have been noticed along with their households just lately. Lopez’s willpower to mud off the heartbreaking previous of her love life nonetheless doesn’t change the truth that she has, in actual fact, fashioned “close relationships” and a “bond” with Affleck’s youngsters, Violet, Fin, and Samuel, whom he shares with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. Even although she has no intention of strolling away from them, the Oscar-winning actor has reportedly sworn off any contact with Lopez’s twins, Max and Emme (shared with ex-husband Marc Anthony).
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JLo prepared to take a break from males and deal with herself
The On the Floor hitmaker then pulled the set off on her marriage with Ben Affleck on the second anniversary of their 2022 marriage ceremony ceremony as she filed for divorce herself. With guarantees of not wanting to really feel sorry for herself, JLo is now “determined to turn all this heartbreak into her superpower, to take ownership of any self-destruction and make changes,” the supply added. Committed to reaching that finish, she is now expectedly “moving forward with a new outlook on life” and redirecting focus to a self-love period as “she’s taking a break from men – a year off at least.”
Ben Affleck bored with being the ‘bad guy’
The supply additionally famous that the Batman star is “afraid” that the “Let’s Get Loud” singer has been candidly “sharing too much” about him and his wrestle and the way they accelerated the method of their relationship spiralling uncontrolled. JLo was reportedly “super overprotective” of Affleck as she didn’t need him to relapse, given his historical past of alcohol abuse. However, all that backfired into the Hollywood star resentfully being afraid about how the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” songbird “is making him look like the bad guy in the relationship.”
