Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged, again! What does her ‘lucky’ green diamond engagement ring mean and how will their families blend once they get married?
What’s old is new! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged to be married, again.
Lopez shared a video to her On the JLo fan newsletter late Friday, April 8, to announce the big news.
“So I have a really exciting and special story to share,” Lopez said in a video posted to her social media accounts with the caption “Major announcement!!!!” as she pointed fans to onthejlo.com. “It is my inner circle where I share my more personal things and this one’s definitely on the JLo.”
We have reached out to Lopez and Affleck’s reps for comment.
Affleck was likely in on the colour green being meaningful to Lopez. She spoke about the hue being her “lucky colour” in another On the JLo newsletter.
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Lopez and Affleck’s appearance at the Marry Me premiere in February seemingly hinted that the actress was in the bridal head space once again. Wearing a short white dress, the singer cosied up to Affleck on the red carpet and exchanged a few kisses.
The two seemingly confirmed their relationship by going Instagram official in July, when Lopez posted a photo of her kissing Affleck while celebrating her 52nd birthday.
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“5 2 … what it do …,” she wrote on the relationship reveal at the time.
Since then they’ve been seen hitting the red carpet together at film festivals and at the 2021 Met Gala in September.
Lopez and Affleck first met in 2002 on the set of the romantic comedy Gigli, while Lopez was still married to her second husband, dancer Cris Judd. Although the film bombed terribly at the box office, sparks were definitely flying between Lopez and Affleck. The pair went public with their relationship soon after Lopez’s divorce from Judd.
The Hustlers star told People that when she met Affleck at the time, “I felt like … ‘OK, this is it.’”
The Bennifer romance first took the pop culture of the early aughts by storm. The Hollywood power couple got engaged in November 2002 with a pink engagement ring, but the bended knee didn’t end in happily ever after. Lopez and Affleck ended their engagement in 2004, blaming the demise of their relationship to all the media attention.
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In 2008, Affleck said he and Lopez were “too accessible” during their high-profile relationship: “I think Jen and I made a mistake in that we fell in love, we were excited and maybe too accessible. I don’t think either of us anticipated the degree to which it would take on a world of its own.”
Fast forward to 2022 and the engagement is back on.
Between the two of them, Lopez and Affleck have five children from previous marriages. Lopez shares 14-year-old twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony and Affleck shares Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
- J. Lo made the announcement in her On the JLo fan newsletter after the pair appeared on the Marry Me premiere red carpet in February, hinting that Lopez might be in the bridal head space again
- The ring features a large green diamond – J. Lo’s ‘lucky colour’ – with two smaller diamonds on each side; affleck proposed with a pink diamond the first time around, in 2002