Jennifer Lopez mentioned 'I do'…once more! As J.Lo simply made it official with Ben Affleck, let's look again at her previous marriages to Marc Anthony, Cris Judd, and extra.
“I nonetheless consider in fortunately ever after, for positive, one hundred pc,” Jennifer Lopezmentioned throughout a November 2021 interview on At the moment. When requested if she would marry once more, she mentioned, “I don’t know. Yeah. I suppose.” On the time, she was solely courting Ben Affleck, however 5 months later, Ben would shock J.Lo whereas she was taking a shower with a proposal and an 8.5-carat inexperienced diamond engagement ring. This sparkler, price an estimated $5 million, grew to become the most recent in J.Lo’s assortment of engagement rings, as she’s walked down the aisle 3 times earlier than. And now she will add a marriage ring to her cache, as she made it official with Ben on July 16, 2022.
“In the event you can’t giggle at your self and simply take it because it comes — I simply don’t take into consideration these issues,” J.Lo added throughout the interview. “I really feel like I’m a human being like everyone else. I’ve had my ups and downs, I’ve made errors, and I’m actually happy with the place I’ve come to in my life and who I'm as an individual, as a mother, and as an actor and an artist. So yeah, it’s OK, everyone’s obtained that.”
That quantity may have been increased. She was engaged to Alex Rodriguez earlier than calling off their two-year engagement in March 2021. Plus, Jen and Ben had been set to wed throughout “Bennifer 1.0,” the romance that swept up the early 2000s. Now, within the glow of “Bennifer 2.0” getting hitched, right here’s a glance again in any respect her previous husbands.
Ojani Noa
“I want you had been my past love
‘Trigger should you had been my first, child
There would have been no second, third, or fourth love”
Jennifer Lopez, “First Love”
You always remember your first, although typically, you would like you may. Jennifer married Ojani Noa in February 1997. The 2 first met when she was in Miami to movie Blood and Wine. Ojani labored as a server in Gloria Estefan’s restaurant, and romance was on the menu. The couple tied the knot, however in March 1997, Selena was launched. J.Lo’s profile out of the blue skyrocketed with the breakthrough efficiency, and her marriage rapidly buckled beneath the burden. The couple divorced in 1998 after barely a yr collectively.
“I’ve by no means been married in a church, and I’ve been married 3 times, and as soon as was 9 months and as soon as was 11 months, so I don’t really matter these,” J.Lo mentioned in a YouTube video documenting her It’s My Celebration tour.
Cris Judd
“Taking away the truth that I care about you, it’s simply your means
So candy, every thing appears proper round you
Do you know that you simply had this calming means about you if you contact?
And I wanna know if I could possibly be your woman”
Jennifer Lopez, “The One (Model 2)“
Within the case of “second verse, similar as the primary,” J.Lo obtained hitched to dancer and choreographer Cris Judd on September 21, 2001. The 2 met in Spain in late 2000 when Cris was employed to direct her “Love Don’t Price a Factor” music video. Their chemistry carried off the movie set and into the marriage chapel.
“When Jennifer walks in, I shake her hand, and we kinda take a look at one another — and in my head, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to marry this lady,'” Cris mentioned in a 2013 episode of Oprah: The place Are They Now?, per HuffPost. That dream rapidly changed into a nightmare for each Cris and J.Lo.
“At any time when we would depart a spot, we would depart individually,” he mentioned within the episode. “I suppose the primary introduction to me being together with her was after we had been on the Oscars. It was simply bedlam. I’ve by no means seen so many individuals concentrated in a single place, particularly cameras. I knew she was there to do a job, and so I used to be simply that man who was simply by her facet.”
J.Lo filed for divorce in July 2022, 9 months after the marriage. Although Cris’s father would give an interview in 2002 the place he pinned the blame for the breakup on Ben Affleck, Cris himself was prepared to let bygones be bygones. “Throughout the time after we had been separated, and we had been going via [the] divorce, I used to be getting quite a lot of calls to interview, and naturally, everybody needs to know the dust about your marriage and what went flawed,” Judd mentioned. “And I by no means needed to do this as a result of that’s nobody’s enterprise.”
Marc Anthony
“No me ames
Para estar muriendo
Dentro de una guerra llena de arrepentimientos
No me ames
Para estar en tierra
Quiero alzar el vuelo con tu gran amor
Por el azul del cielo.”
Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony, “No Me Ames“
Within the J.Lo timeline, Cris Judd got here earlier than “Bennifer 1.0,” and Marc Anthony got here afterward. J.Lo and Marc reportedly started courting in September 2003, shortly after J.Lo and Ben introduced they had been suspending their nuptials. By 2004, Ben and Jen had break up, and in June 2004, she mentioned “I do” to Marc in a small ceremony that included simply 30 friends.
Marc and J.Lo had been buddies for years earlier than they grew to become romantic. In her e book, True Love, she mentioned that Ben was her “first actual heartbreak” and that Marc’s arrival was good timing. Reuniting him was the “begin of her fairy story,” and he made her “really feel liked” throughout a low level (h/t Cheat Sheet).
For some time, it regarded like these two had been going to make it. J.Lo and Marc welcomed twins Emme and Max on February 22, 2008. Plus, as J.Lo would inform Cosmopolitan in 2013, marriage to Marc lifted her confidence. “The largest insecurity I had was my singing,” she mentioned. “Although I had bought 70 million data, there was this sense like, I’m not good at this. And whereas I used to be married to Marc, he helped me recover from it. He stored telling me, ‘You’re the one one holding your self again from reaching your full potential as a singer. It's a must to let go.'”
Letting go is what these two did. “Now we have determined to finish our marriage,” Mar and J.Lo mentioned of their 2011 announcement, per the New York Put up. “This was a really tough resolution. Now we have come to an amicable conclusion on all issues. It's a painful time for all concerned, and we recognize the respect of our privateness right now.”
J.Lo wrote in her e book that the issues that led to her divorce had been Marc stemmed from her personal low vanity. She and her ex-husband have since been on glorious phrases, co-parenting their youngsters and praising one another within the press.
“The factor about Jennifer is her potential to see and perceive issues earlier than they occur. Earlier than she even brings an concept up, she has visualized it a thousand occasions. And if anybody says it won't be the best concept, she’ll say, ‘You simply don’t see it but,'” Marc mentioned within the April 2021 cowl story for InStyle. “9 occasions out of 10, she’ll nail it. She’s the primary one within the room and the final to go away. The toughest employee I’ve ever met. Once we had been collectively, it was fairly the alternative for me. That has modified since. I realized a lot from her. She’s the unique!”
Ben Affleck
I simply can’t management myself
I can’t be with nobody else
It appears I’m hooked on the way in which you want to the touch me
I don’t assume they perceive
Why I like at your command
From the phrases you communicate
So deep our our bodies meet, I needed to have you ever
Jennifer Lopez, “Expensive Ben“
Ben Affleck first started courting Jennifer after her second divorce. They met whereas filming Gigli in 2001, obtained engaged in November 2002, and referred to as every thing off in 2004. Quick ahead to April 2021, and J.Lo has simply referred to as off her relationship with A-Rod. Ben was photographed getting out of J.Lo’s SUV, sparking rumors of a “Bennifer 2.0.” A number of days later, after Ben and Jen participated within the Might 2 Vax Reside occasion in Los Angeles, they boarded a aircraft headed to the Yellowstone Membership resort in Montant. The 2 had been photographed cruising across the Large Sky state. The couple quickly confirmed the romance was again on earlier than taking their love around the globe and again once more.
In his time aside from J.Lo, Ben married Jennifer Garner, grew to become a father of three, divorced, and dated a handful of ladies. And in 2022, Ben proposed to J.Lo for a second time, with the pair making it official on July 16, 2022. It appears that evidently believing in “fortunately ever after” pays off.