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The pair continued dating for four months before deciding to separate. The following month, the couple postponed their planned September 2003 wedding just days before it was set to take place due to 'excessive media attention'. They were young, impossibly good-looking, fabulously wealthy, and clearly hot for each other, so it seemed like a good time to knock them down a peg." Lopez had described the experience as overwhelming, and stated that Affleck hated the attention the pair was getting. Affleck and Lopez met during the film’s production and quickly became an item – such a public one that, by the time it hit theaters a year later, the “Bennifer” backlash had built up quite a head of steam. As Jason Bailey in a piece for the Guardian has observed: "it's important to frame this ghastly reception within the atmosphere of the moment. After this happened, the media started to portray them in a more negative manner.

On August 1, 2003, Lopez and Affleck's box office bomb film Gigli released, being considered one of the worst films in history. On July 18, 2003, Lopez and Affleck had their first primetime interview together on Dateline NBC. She included songs such as ' Baby I Love U!', ' I'm Glad' and 'Dear Ben' which were about her romance with Affleck. Then to Affleck, stating that he was "her life and sole inspiration for every lyric. Lopez dedicated her 2002 album This Is Me.

Later that month, Affleck and Lopez began filming their 2nd film together, Jersey Girl. After three months of dating, Affleck proposed to Lopez at his mother's home in October 2002 with a $1.2M 6.1-carat Harry Winston pink diamond ring. Lopez' single 'Jenny From The Block' which featured Affleck in the music video brought on even more attention to the couple, with Lopez describing it as a tabloid frenzy. Lopez and Affleck's relationship garnered the first couple portmanteau name in Hollywood, 'Bennifer'. They were photographed together in July 2002. Lopez and Judd separated that summer and Lopez entered a relationship with Affleck. Later that April, it was reported that Affleck and Lopez were "cozying up" during the opening of her restaurant Madre's. He had defended his reasoning for doing so, citing that he had been ashamed of his "preconceived notions" of Lopez.
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After wrapping filming for the movie in March 2002, Affleck had spent a reported $18,000 on a set of half-page advertisements to express the pleasure he had working with Lopez. It was rumored by the tabloids that the pair had started an affair due to their friendly and flirty ways, but they both denied these claims, stating that they were strictly just friends. They have starred in two films together, Gigli (2003) and Jersey Girl (2004), and appeared in two music videos together, Jenny from the Block (2002) and Marry Me (Ballad Version) (2022).Īlthough they had crossed paths several times before (most notably at the 70th Academy Awards and at the premiere of Armageddon, both in 1998), the first major meeting of Affleck and Lopez took place in late 2001 on the set of their film, Gigli, while Lopez was still married to Cris Judd. They rekindled their romantic relationship in early 2021 and got married in July 2022. After their breakup, they maintained a friendship. The pair had a widely publicized 18-month romance from 2002 to 2004, and were engaged to be married. Romance between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopezīennifer is a name given by the media to the high-profile relationship between American actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck and American entertainer Jennifer Lopez.
