Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck dated of their 20s, from 1997 - 2000. Paltrow has been confirmed to be a Bennifer fan within the final yr, and confirmed her love for them as soon as once more!
Gwyneth Paltrow, 49, is so glad for her ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck on his marriage to Jennifer Lopez! The Oscar successful actress, who dated Ben from 1997 – 2000, shared a candy message about Bennifer’s Las Vegas nuptials to her Instagram story on Friday, July 22. When a follower requested, “how do you are feeling about Ben and J.Lo,” she enthusiastically replied: “LOVE!!! SO ROMANTIC!!! VERY HAPPY FOR THEM.”
This isn’t the primary time the Goop founder has commented on Ben and J.Lo’s second-chance romance. After the couple surprised on the crimson carpet on the Venice Movie Pageant in Sept. 2021 — marking their first crimson carpet debut since getting again collectively — Gwyneth couldn’t resist commenting on a cute kiss picture! “Okay, that is cute,” the My Father’s Daughter writer wrote with a kissing face emoji.
Gwyneth and Ben linked up romantically in 1997 after they had been each 25 years previous. On the time, GP was recent out of a three yr relationship with Brad Pitt, who was eight years her senior. Throughout Gwyneth and Ben’s three-year courtship, each earned career-defining Academy Awards: he took dwelling an Oscar for Good Will Looking in 1998, whereas she was named Greatest Actress for Shakespeare In Love. Again in 2015, Paltrow revealed to Howard Stern that her romance with Ben fizzled as he wasn’t “in place in his life to have a girlfriend” — however famous they're nonetheless associates.
Jennifer Lopez was Ben’s first severe relationship after splitting from Gwyneth, which started after the duo labored on 2001’s Gigli. He initially proposed to the “Expensive Ben” singer in Nov. 2002 with an enormous pink Harry Winston diamond, and a marriage date was set for Sept. 2003. Attributable to intense media scrutiny and dishonest allegations, the marriage was postponed.
Sadly, Bennifer cut up in Jan. 2004 and each went on to marry others: he wed Jennifer Garner in 2005, whereas she walked down the aisle with Marc Anthony simply six months later, in June 2004. Ben’s divorce from Garner was finalized in 2017 following a prolonged separation, whereas Lopez and Anthony’s divorce was closing in 2014, additionally after a years-long separation. Each relationships welcomed kids: Ben is dad to youngsters Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, with Garner, and J.Lo has twins Max and Emme, now 14, with Marc.
Ben and J.Lo shockingly acquired again collectively in April 2021, recent off her cut up from fiancé Alex Rodriguez simply weeks prior. The duo acquired re-engaged a yr later in April 2022 — this time with a inexperienced diamond — and wed in Las Vegas, Nevada simply three months in a while July 16, 2022! Jennifer formally modified her title to “Jennifer Lynn Affleck” per a wedding license submitting, which is precisely what she mentioned she was going to do again in a 2003 interview with Entry Hollywood.
Gwyneth additionally moved on after her 2000 cut up from Ben: simply three years later, she wed her now ex-husband Chris Martin in 2003. They'd two youngsters: Apple, 18, and Moses, 16. The couple cut up in 2016. She married for the second time in 2018 to producer Brad Falchuk.