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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are able to get married!
The pair — who rekindled their romance final yr — is engaged, a rep for Lopez confirms to PEOPLE. Lopez shared the information in her On the JLo e-newsletter days after she was photographed carrying what seemed to be an engagement ring earlier this week.
She revealed the thrilling replace in a Friday night e-mail to her interior circle. The message to followers included a clip of Lopez admiring an enormous, inexperienced diamond on her ring finger, a picture of which was additionally shared by her sister on social media.
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Lopez teased the “main announcement” with a video on Twitter that very same evening. “So I’ve a extremely thrilling and particular story to share…” Lopez informed her followers. She additionally added a diamond ring emoji to her Twitter deal with.
Affleck most lately confirmed assist for his wife-to-be, cheering her on together with his son Samuel and her daughter Emme as Lopez accepted the Icon Award on the iHeartRadio Music Awards in March.
Lopez lately informed PEOPLE what makes their connection totally different now in comparison with 18 years in the past, saying, “We’re older now, we’re smarter, now we have extra expertise, we’re at totally different locations in our lives, now we have youngsters now, and now we have to be very aware of these issues.”
The Marry Me actress, 52, shares 14-year-old twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony, and Affleck, 49, shares three youngsters with ex-wife Jennifer Garner: Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10.
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“It is a lovely final result that this has occurred on this approach presently in our lives the place we are able to actually admire and rejoice one another and respect one another,” Lopez informed PEOPLE. “We at all times did, however now we have much more of an appreciation as a result of we all know that life can take you in several instructions.”
She added, “We’ve got been within the sport within the public eye lengthy sufficient to know who we’re as folks and what actually issues and what would not matter. We’ve got youngsters and we respect one another. … We actually dwell our lives in a approach we will be pleased with and our youngsters will be pleased with you. We’re simply working from a spot of affection and respect for everybody in our lives and that is essential to us. We all know what the reality is [and] we maintain it sacred.”
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Lopez and Affleck beforehand started relationship in July 2002 and acquired engaged that November earlier than suspending their September 2003 wedding ceremony simply days earlier than the date. They in the end referred to as off their engagement in January 2004.
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Affleck informed WSJ. Journal in December about feeling “fortunate” to have been given second probabilities, each in his work and private life.
“I’ve had second probabilities in my profession. I’ve had second probabilities as a human being. Life is tough, and we’re at all times failing and hopefully studying from these failures,” he mentioned. “The one factor you actually need to avail your self of the alternatives supplied from that development is the second likelihood. I’ve positively tried to reap the benefits of that. I have never at all times been profitable, however in circumstances during which I’ve, they’ve turned out to be the defining points of my life.”
