Jennifer Lopez Says Jennifer Garner Is an ‘Wonderful Coparent’

Crushing coparenting! Jennifer Lopez opened up about her and Ben Affleck‘s blended household — and couldn’t preserve from raving over his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.

The Hustlers actress, 53, revealed in her December 2022 Vogue cowl story that Affleck and the Juno star, each 50, are a dream group in terms of their children: Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10. “[She’s] a tremendous coparent, and so they work very well collectively,” Lopez informed the outlet.

Garner and the Oscar winner have been married for 10 years earlier than asserting their break up in 2015. Three years later, their divorce was finalized. The “Let’s Get Loud” artist, for her half, shares twins Emme and Max, 14, with ex-husband Marc Anthony.

“The transition is a course of that must be dealt with with a lot care,” the Grammy nominee stated of mixing her and Affleck’s households collectively following their July marriage ceremony. “They’ve so many emotions. They’re teenagers. Nevertheless it’s going very well up to now.”

She continued: “What I hope to domesticate with our household is that his children have a brand new ally in me and my children have a brand new ally in him, somebody who actually loves and cares about them however can have a unique perspective and assist me see issues that I can’t see with my children as a result of I’m so emotionally tied up.”

The Gone Woman actor and Lopez have been beforehand engaged within the early 2000s, rekindling their romance practically twenty years after their 2004 break up. Us Weekly confirmed in Could 2021 that Affleck and the Shotgun Wedding ceremony actress have been “full-on courting” after she ended her engagement to Alex Rodriguez earlier that 12 months. Affleck proposed in April, and the twosome exchanged vows in a shock Las Vegas ceremony three months later. In August, they celebrated their love as soon as once more with family and friends in Georgia.

Garner has but to publicly touch upon her ex-husband’s marriage, however a supply beforehand informed Us that she and Lopez are amicable. “J. Lo has Jennifer Garner’s seal of approval,” the insider solely revealed in June 2021. “J. Lo thinks Jennifer is a sort and great individual and a tremendous mom.”

Whereas reflecting on her distinctive journey with Affleck, the “Jenny From the Block” singer informed Vogue that she “at all times felt like there was an actual love” between them — regardless that they spent years aside.

“Individuals in my life know that he was a really, very particular individual in my life,” she gushed. “Once we reconnected, these emotions for me have been nonetheless very actual. … All we’ve ever wished was to form of come to a spot of peace in our lives the place we actually felt that kind of affection that you simply really feel whenever you’re very younger and surprise for those who can have that once more.”

The Argo director’s perspective was equally as glowing. “There’s something innately, magically type and good and full of affection on the coronary heart of who Jennifer is,” he informed the journal. “That’s precisely the individual I keep in mind from 20 years in the past. Perhaps she sees all of the modifications she’s made, whereas once I see her, principally I simply see somebody who has retained, in opposition to the chances, the factor about her that at all times made her essentially the most unimaginable to me: a coronary heart that appears boundless with love. She is my thought of the form of individual I wish to be.”