Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been busy turning heads on the red carpet, on the tarmac, and even on a $130 million yacht in Italy, however the reunited couple have been fairly tight-lipped about their rekindled romance. Nonetheless, in a recent interview with “People,” the “Marry Me” star gushes about her “second likelihood” with the 49-year-old actor. “I’ve by no means been higher. It is simply that we’re all in a really lovely second,” Lopez says, including that she feels “so fortunate and completely satisfied and proud to be with him.”
When discussing her relationship with Affleck, Lopez displays on the media circus that surrounded them 20 years ago, saying they’re extra aware of how a lot they share with the general public this time round as a result of “it’s such a phenomenal time for all of us.” She continues, “It is lovely the best way it feels very completely different than it was years in the past. . . . There’s extra of an appreciation and a celebration for it, which is good. Once you discover any individual and you actually, actually love them and also you get a second likelihood at that? That could be a actually uncommon, valuable, lovely factor and we do not take it as a right.”
Nonetheless, Lopez can not help however gush over Affleck, praising him for the person he is grown to turn out to be. “I really feel like he is at a spot in his life the place — identical to how I really feel about myself — it has been a journey of studying your self and figuring your self out, attending to a spot the place you are feeling actually good by yourself and who you’re so that you may be in a cheerful, wholesome relationship,” she says, including that he is every thing she “all the time knew he was and wished to be.”
In case you want a fast refresher, Lopez and Affleck first met in 2002 on the set of their film “Gigli,” they usually have been engaged that very same yr earlier than calling it quits just some days earlier than the wedding as a result of “extreme media consideration.” Now, 18 years later, the pair are proving that real-life fairy tales can nonetheless exist. In her unique interview with “Individuals,” Lopez says she teaches her 13-year-old twins, Max and Emme, that “actual love exists.” She provides, “Some issues may be without end, however it does not imply they only have a straight line.”