‘Now she makes love to whoever she wants’
Jennifer Lopez has seemingly addressed the status of her marriage to Ben Affleck by celebrating the anniversary of her breakup song Cambia El Paso on Instagram.
“Just take the step,” Lopez added. “Advance. Do what you need to do. If something’s not feeling right, whatever it is in your life, just make that move and dance.”
Lopez and Affleck started dating in the early aughts and were engaged in 2002. But the twosome buckled under the constant media attention and called their wedding off in 2004, with each moving on with new partners. Lopez went on to have twins with singer Marc Anthony, while Affleck went on to father three children with actress Jennifer Garner. Both unions ended in divorce.
“I think different time, different thing, who knows what could’ve happened, but there was a genuine love there,” Lopez said, reflecting on their connection in an interview with Jess Cagle in 2016.
Twenty years after they first got together, the twosome became husband and wife when they were married in 2022.
“The writing is on the wall – it’s over,” the insider claimed. “They’re headed for a divorce – and for once, (Ben’s) not to blame!”
Since March, the pair have only been photographed a handful of times and have been dogged with questions over the status of their relationship. As she made the press rounds for her sci-fi thriller Atlas in May, Lopez, 54, shut down a reporter who tried to ask about her marriage.
“They just have very different approaches when it comes to media attention. Ben hates all attention and it makes him very uncomfortable. Jennifer has always had a different approach,” the source said.
“Even though he admires that about her, it doesn’t make him happy and causes stress in his life and then in hers. There is no question their different styles clash,” they said.
“Ben continues to live at the Brentwood rental. He’s been there for about two months now,” another source says. “He seems okay. He’s been at his office every day and seems focused on work. He’s also spending time with his kids.”
“Jennifer’s mom told her, ‘Cut your losses and move on to avoid getting any deeper in this mess,’” a source told the publication. “She told her that she’s wasted years believing that Ben was some kind of knight in shining armor. He was not the person she built him up to be. It’s taken too much of a toll on her and because of this she has lost sight of who she is and what she stands for.”
“Nothing can break her spirit,” a source said. “She wants to have a summer full of fun and laughter.”