Earlier this year, famous exes Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck sparked rumors they were getting back together after breaking up in 2004.
Months after the dating chatter started dominating the gossip columns, the two popular public figures made things Instagram official this week. Immediately, they aimed to break the Internet with pictures of them celebrating the 52nd birthday of the Hustlers actress.
They even recreated their iconic 2002 butt rub session from Lopez’s “Jenny From the Block” music video on a yacht. The couple was seen having fun on a $130 million mega-yacht in Saint Tropez.
In a celebrity world where power couples like to lay low, the pair known as “Bennifer” is giving people something to talk about and filing a void. The photos from their European gateway are stunning and social media cannot get enough of them.
2021 was a turning point for Lopez and Affleck who decided it was the right time to revisit their past relationship. However, a lot of things have changed for them since 2004.
Lopez was married to Latin crooner Marc Anthony for 10 years, and they officially divorced in 2014. Lopez and Anthony have a son and one daughter together — twins Maximilian David and Emme Maribel, aged 13.
Interestingly enough, in her 2014 book, True Love, Lopez described the union with Anthony in harsh terms. She wrote: “Thinking back, maybe deep down I knew that this was a Band-Aid on the cut, that my wound hadn’t been stitched or healed. But I pushed all that to the back of my mind. Because life takes unpredictable twists and turns, right? And you’ve just got to go with what you feel is best in the moment.”
Although she had been married twice (Ojani Noa and Cris Judd) and dated men like Sean “Diddy” Combs before the high-profile romance, Lopez described Affleck in the book as her first real encounter with love.
She explained: “Ben and I split up at the moment when I thought we were committing to each other forever, it was my first real heartbreak, it felt like my heart had been torn out of my chest.”
She also added: “My way of anesthetizing the pain was different. I sought out comfort in another person, tried to find someone who could make me feel loved and wanted in my loneliest hour. Marc came back into my life three days after I should have been at the altar saying ‘I do’ to another man.”
Before giving love another shot this year, Lopez almost got married to baseball legend Alex Rodriguez twice. They were in a relationship for four years.
Affleck, who has three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner — daughters Violet Anne, 15, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth, 12, and Samuel Garner, 9 — previously dated Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas for almost one year.
As J.Lo is busy enjoying the nice French weather, her ex, A-Rod, was also seen having fun on a yacht off St. Tropez with several women in bikini. Rodriguez is partying ahead of his 46th birthday on Tuesday.
Lopez and Affleck are said to be thinking about moving in together and blending their families.
