Jennifer Lopez is featured in the latest issue of Vogue Magazine. She has decided to speak for the first time about her blended family since marrying Ben Affleck and share her thoughts on Jennifer Garner.
Lopez and Affleck dated and were engaged two decades ago but never made it down the wedding aisle because of miscommunication and pressure from their entourage and the media.
The actress and singer went on to have many high-profile romances and a marriage to singer Marc Anthony that produced twins — Emme and Maximilian, 14.
As for Affleck, he married actress Jennifer Garner and the former couple share three children — Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10.
Lopez reconciled with the Oscar winner in 2021 and had a lavish wedding in Georgia over the summer.
The songwriter explained that she and her new husband have been able to make their modern family work thanks to love and determination.
She confessed: “The transition is a process that needs to be handled with so much care. They have so many feelings. They’re teens. But it’s going really well so far. What I hope to cultivate with our family is that his kids have a new ally in me and my kids have a new ally in him, someone who really loves and cares about them but can have a different perspective and help me see things that I can’t see with my kids because I’m so emotionally tied up.”
Talking about Garner, Lopez had a few wonderful words of praise for her during the interview, saying the actress is “an amazing co-parent, and [Garner and Affleck] work really well together.”
The Grammy winner told the publication that deep down inside, she always knew that Affleck was her one true love.
Despite being apart for more than 20 years, Lopez claimed that she easily reconnected with Affleck.
She stated: “I never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there. People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real.”
She also revealed that it was a power move to take her husband’s last name and added: “I don’t think that’s a problem … It’s not traditional. It doesn’t have any romance to it. It feels like it’s a power move, you know what I mean? I’m very much in control of my own life and destiny and feel empowered as a woman and as a person.”
Lopez appears content.
