Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got engaged
After breaking off their engagement in 2004, the couple rekindled their romance last year.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are planning to get married!
Lopez’s spokeswoman confirms to PEOPLE that the couple, who rekindled their romance last year, is engaged. Lopez revealed the news in her On the JLo newsletter, just days after she was pictured wearing what appeared to be an engagement ring.
In a Friday evening email to her close group, she shared the happy news. Lopez’s greeting to fans featured a video of her enjoying a large, green stone on a silver band on her ring finger, which was also shared on social media by her sister Lynda.
In a recent newsletter, the “If You Had My Love” singer talked about how green is her favorite color. “I’ve noticed there have been many times in my life when fantastic things have happened when I was wearing green,” she explained. “Perhaps you recall a certain green dress.”
On the same night, Lopez teased the “big announcement” with a video on Twitter. “So I’ve got a pretty fascinating and unique story to tell…” Lopez informed her fans. Her Twitter handle now includes a diamond ring emoji.
Affleck most recently expressed his support for his future wife by cheering her on with his son Samuel and her daughter Emme at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, where Lopez earned the Icon Award.
“We’re older now, we’re smarter, we have more experience, we’re at different points in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very mindful of those things,” Lopez told PEOPLE. “We’re at different places in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very conscious of those things.”
The Marry Me actress, 52, has 14-year-old twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony, and Affleck, 49, has Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
Lopez told PEOPLE, “It’s a beautiful outcome that this has happened in this way at this time in our lives where we can really appreciate and celebrate each other and respect each other. We always did, but we have even more of an appreciation because we know that life can take you in different directions.”
She went on to say, “We have been in the game in the public eye long enough to know who we are as people and what really matters and what doesn’t matter. We have kids and we respect each other. … We really live our lives in a way we can be proud of and our kids can be proud of you. We’re just operating from a place of love and respect for everyone in our lives and that is very important to us. We know what the truth is [and] we hold it sacred.”
Lopez and Affleck began dating in July 2002 and were engaged in November of that year, but their September 2003 wedding was postponed just days before the date. In January of 2004, they called off their engagement.
In December, Affleck told WSJ. Magazine that he considers himself “fortunate” to have been offered second chances in both his professional and personal lives.
“I’ve had second chances in my career. I’ve had second chances as a human being. Life is difficult, and we are always failing and hopefully learning from those failures,” he stated. “The one thing you really need to avail yourself of the opportunities provided from that growth is the second chance. I’ve definitely tried to take advantage of that. I haven’t always been successful, but in cases in which I have, they’ve turned out to be the defining aspects of my life.”
