Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s romance enthralled a technology once they received engaged for the primary time, in 2002. And it continues to take action 20 years later, within the wake of their reunion and up to date marriage.
All through the years—no matter their relationship standing—the 2 have stated solely great issues about each other and their deep connection. Forward, see among the sweetest feedback the 2 stars have publicly made about one another.
2002
J.Lo gushes over then-fiancé Ben to Diane Sawyer.
“I’d most likely say that he’s brilliantly good, loving, charming, affectionate. And I simply admire him in each method. I respect him. I really feel like he teaches me issues,” Lopez stated of Affleck on ABC’s Primetime. “We talked about how individuals form of see him with one kind of individual and me with one other kind of individual, and the 2 of us collectively is like ‘How did that occur?’ And the way we’re most likely extra alike and from the identical form of background and, you understand, similar form of upbringing and similar form of household and similar form of home.”
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2008
Ben elaborates on the explanation for his and J.Lo’s break up on Dwell.
“I believe Jen and I made a mistake in that we fell in love, we had been excited and perhaps too accessible,” Affleck stated throughout an look on the British TV collection. “I don’t assume both of us anticipated the diploma to which it will tackle a world of its personal.”
2014
J.Lo opens up about her robust break up from Ben on the At the moment present.
“It was most likely my first huge heartbreak,” Lopez revealed to Maria Shriver. “And to have one in every of my greatest mates who I’d identified for years, who I really love and did have chemistry with, come into my life and say, ‘I’m right here’ … What you want to know is, no one can prevent or heal you. Solely you are able to do that for you.”
Lopez added that exterior pressures ultimately “destroyed” their well-publicized romance, but additionally incentivized them to take a position extra of their respective careers post-split. “It felt, at instances, unfair, however neither one in every of us is that individual to be like, ‘Woe is me,’” she stated. “So we had been like, ‘Properly, we simply received to mud it off and hold it transferring.’ I believe, within the weirdest method, that it motivated each of us to then turn into and do the issues that we wound up doing. … It fueled us in a bizarre method that we felt we needed to show ourselves once more.”
2016
J.Lo displays to Jess Cagle on her “real” connection to Ben.
“I believe completely different time, completely different factor,” she instructed the Folks and Leisure Weekly editor, including, “Who is aware of what may’ve occurred, however there was a real love there.”
J.Lo roasts Ben’s phoenix tattoo on Watch What Occurs Dwell.
“It’s terrible! And I’d inform him that,” she boldly instructed host Andy Cohen throughout her look. “What are you doing? It has too many colours! His tattoos at all times have too many colours. They shouldn’t be so colourful, you understand what I imply? They need to be, like, cooler.”
2018
J.Lo will get actual with Vanity Truthful about her post-split heartbreak.
“I misplaced my sense of self, questioned if I belonged on this enterprise, thought perhaps I did suck at all the things, And my relationship [with Ben] self-destructed in entrance of the whole world,” she instructed the journal in 2018. “It was a two-year factor for me till I picked myself up once more.”
2020
Ben praises J.Lo’s star flip in Hustlers to the NYT.
“She’s the true factor,” Affleck stated of Lopez’s efficiency within the 2019 movie in a dialog with The New York Instances (only a yr earlier than the pair’s rekindled romance was formally confirmed). He added, “I communicate periodically together with her and have a whole lot of respect for her. How superior is it that she had her greatest hit film at 50? That’s fucking baller.”
2021
Ben talks his “lovely” rekindled romance with J.Lo to the WSJ.
“I can say that it’s positively lovely to me,” he stated to The Wall Avenue Journal. “And, you understand, one of many issues I actually worth throughout all sides of my life now could be that it was dealt with in a method that mirrored that.”
2022
J.Lo shares a heartfelt word celebrating her marriage to Ben and their particular lasting romance.
“We did it. Love is gorgeous. Love is form. And it seems love is affected person. Twenty years affected person,” Lopez wrote in a put up for her publication, On the JLo, devoted to their marriage ceremony.
“They had been proper once they stated, ‘all you want is love’. We’re so grateful to have that in abundance, a brand new great household of 5 wonderful kids and a life that we’ve by no means had extra cause to look ahead to,” she continued. “Stick round lengthy sufficient and perhaps you’ll discover the most effective second of your life in a drive by way of in Las Vegas at twelve thirty within the morning within the tunnel of affection drive by way of, along with your youngsters and the one you’ll spend ceaselessly with. Love is a good factor, perhaps the most effective of things-and price ready for.”
2023
Ben gushes over J.Lo’s expertise on the pink carpet.
“She’s sensible,” he stated throughout an interview with Leisure Tonight for the red-carpet premiere of his movie Air. “[She] helps me in each conceivable method.”
Sabrina Park is a Digital Fellow at HarpersBAZAAR.com the place she covers information, style, and tradition tales. When she’s not writing she loves hanging out together with her cat, studying open air and scrolling the depths of TikTok.
