From 2002 to 2022! All the Similarities Between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s Two Engagements
usmagazine.comHistory repeats itself. Nearly two decades after Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez first got engaged, the Oscar winner proposed once more.“Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,” the “Dance Again” singer wrote in an April 2022 edition of her “On the JLo” newsletter. “I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time.”She continued: “[I was] trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again.
I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘Is that a yes?’ I said, ‘YES of course that’s a YES.’”The Wedding Planner star smiled as she showed off her green diamond engagement ring in several photos in the newsletter.“I was smiling so big and tears were coming down my face, feeling so incredibly happy and whole,” she recalled. “It was nothing fancy at all, but it was the most romantic thing I could’ve ever imagined … just a quiet Saturday night at home, two people promising to always be there for each other.
Two very lucky people. Who got a second chance at true love.”After meeting on the set of Gigli in 2002, the pair soon fell in love and the Good Will Hunting star first proposed in November of that year.
Their relationship was in the spotlight from the beginning and the “excessive media attention” was one of the reasons Affleck and Lopez called off their wedding just days before they were set to marry in September 2003.
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