Jennifer Lopez Is ‘Proud’ To Take Ben Affleck’s Title: ‘I Simply Really feel Like It’s Romantic… It Nonetheless Carries Custom’

Jennifer Lopez is loving being Mrs. Affleck.

The singer opens up about her and Ben Affleck’s marriage in a candid new interview with Vogue.

The journal mentions that The New York Occasions revealed an opinion piece calling Lopez out for taking Affleck’s title not lengthy after they tied the knot in July.

The actress insists, “What? Actually? Individuals are nonetheless going to name me Jennifer Lopez. However my authorized title might be Mrs. Affleck as a result of we’re joined collectively. We’re husband and spouse. I’m happy with that. I don’t suppose that’s an issue.”

She laughs of the opportunity of Affleck turning into Mr. Lopez, “No! It’s not conventional. It doesn’t have any romance to it. It feels prefer it’s an influence transfer, you recognize what I imply? I’m very a lot in charge of my very own life and future and really feel empowered as a girl and as an individual.

“I can perceive that individuals have their emotions about it, and that’s okay, too. However if you wish to understand how I really feel about it, I simply really feel prefer it’s romantic. It nonetheless carries custom and romance to me, and perhaps I’m simply that type of woman.”

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Lopez and Affleck first began courting in 2002, earlier than getting engaged that 12 months and splitting in 2004.

Whereas they have been damaged up, Affleck was married to Jennifer Garner from 2005-2018. They’re mother and father to Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, whereas Lopez shares 14-year-old twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony, whom she was married to from 2004-2014.

Lopez’s nearest and dearest are properly conscious that Affleck has all the time held a particular place in her coronary heart. After the musician break up from Alex Rodriguez in early 2021 and Affleck got here out of a relationship with Ana de Armas, the actor obtained in contact with Lopez after being requested for a remark about her by {a magazine}.

“Clearly we weren’t making an attempt to exit in public,” she explains of them preserving in contact. “However I by no means shied away from the truth that for me, I all the time felt like there was an actual love there, a real love there. Individuals in my life know that he was a really, very particular particular person in my life. Once we reconnected, these emotions for me have been nonetheless very actual.”

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She shares of their rekindled romance, “I don’t know that I like to recommend this for everyone. Typically you outgrow one another, otherwise you simply develop in a different way. The 2 of us, we misplaced one another and located one another.

“To not discredit something in between that occurred, as a result of all these issues have been actual too. All we’ve ever needed was to type of come to a spot of peace in our lives the place we actually felt that sort of affection that you simply really feel while you’re very younger and surprise if you happen to can have that once more. Does it exist? Is it actual? All these questions that I feel everybody has.

“You undergo all these relationships, and also you’re looking and also you’re connecting and also you’re disconnecting with folks, and also you’re like, God, is that this simply what life is? Like a carousel, curler coaster, carnival trip? After which it settles. However the journey to that’s the thriller for everyone.”