Jennifer Lopez Talks Ben Affleck Relationship in ‘Vogue’ – Hollywood Life

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Jennifer Lopez held nothing again whereas discussing her relationship with Ben Affleck in a brand new interview with Vogue for the journal’s Dec. 2022 interview. After ending their engagement in 2004, Ben and Jen received again collectively within the spring of 2021 following her break up from Alex Rodriguez. The 2 had saved in contact on and off through the years, however took issues to the subsequent stage when Ben despatched Jen an e-mail after the A-Rod engagement ended. He was giving her a heads up that he had been requested about her in an interview and had supplied a “rave” response. The trade led them to maintain speaking and finally begin visiting one another at their respective houses.

“Clearly, we weren’t making an attempt to exit in public,” Jen admitted. “However I by no means shied away from the truth that for me, I at all times felt like there was an actual love there, a real love there. Individuals in my life know that he was a really, very particular individual in my life. After we reconnected, these emotions for me had been nonetheless very actual.” Not like different exes who outgrow one another, Jen stated that she and Ben had been capable of “discover” each other after so a few years aside.

“All we’ve ever needed was to form 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 when you can have that once more,” she defined. “oes it exist? Is it actual? All these questions I believe everybody has. You undergo all these relationships and also you’re looking and also you’re connecting and also you’re disconnecting with individuals and also you’re like, ‘God, is that this simply what life is? A carousel, curler coaster, carnival experience?’ After which it settles.”

Jen and Ben first received collectively in 2002 and had been engaged by the top of that yr. They known as off their Sept. 2003 marriage ceremony simply days earlier than the ceremony, and ended their relationship 4 months later. Ben went on to have three kids with Jennifer Garner, whereas Jen had twins with Marc Anthony. After they rekindled their relationship in 2021, Ben went on to pop the query in March 2022. They tied the knot in a Las Vegas marriage ceremony in July, adopted by a extra lavish ceremony with household and mates in August.