“I nonetheless imagine in fortunately ever after, for certain, one hundred pc,” Jennifer Lopez stated throughout a November 2021 interview on Today. When requested if she would marry once more, she stated, “I don’t know. Yeah. I suppose.” On the time, she was solely courting Ben Affleck, however 5 months later, Ben would shock J.Lo whereas she was taking a bath with a proposal and an 8.5-carat green diamond engagement ring. This sparkler, price an estimated $5 million, grew to become the newest in J.Lo’s assortment of engagement rings, as she’s walked down the aisle thrice earlier than. And now she will be able to add a marriage ring to her cache, as she made it official with Ben on July 16, 2022.

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“If you happen to can’t snort at your self and simply take it because it comes — I simply don’t take into consideration these issues,” J.Lo added through the interview. “I really feel like I’m a human being like all people else. I’ve had my ups and downs, I’ve made errors, and I’m actually happy with the place I’ve come to in my life and who I’m as an individual, as a mother, and as an actor and an artist. So yeah, it’s OK, all people’s obtained that.”

That quantity may have been greater. She was engaged to Alex Rodriguez earlier than calling off their two-year engagement in March 2021. Plus, Jen and Ben have been set to wed throughout “Bennifer 1.0,” the romance that swept up the early 2000s. Now, within the glow of “Bennifer 2.0” getting hitched, right here’s a glance again in any respect her previous husbands.

Ojani Noa

“I want you have been my old flame
‘Trigger in the event you have been my first, child
There would have been no second, third, or fourth love”

Jennifer Lopez, “First Love”

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You always remember your first, although typically, you would like you possibly can. Jennifer married Ojani Noa in February 1997. The 2 first met when she was in Miami to movie Blood and Wine. Ojani labored as a server in Gloria Estefan’s restaurant, and romance was on the menu. The couple tied the knot, however in March 1997, Selena was launched. J.Lo’s profile all of the sudden skyrocketed with the breakthrough efficiency, and her marriage rapidly buckled beneath the load. The couple divorced in 1998 after barely a 12 months collectively.

“I’ve by no means been married in a church, and I’ve been married thrice, and as soon as was 9 months and as soon as was 11 months, so I don’t really matter these,” J.Lo stated in a YouTube video documenting her It’s My Social gathering tour.

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Cris Judd

“Taking away the truth that I care about you, it’s simply your means
So candy, the whole lot appears proper round you
Do you know that you simply had this calming means about you whenever you contact?
And I wanna know if I could possibly be your lady”

Jennifer Lopez, “The One (Version 2)“

Within the case of “second verse, similar as the primary,” J.Lo obtained hitched to dancer and choreographer Cris Judd on September 21, 2001. The 2 met in Spain in late 2000 when Cris was employed to direct her “Love Don’t Price a Factor” music video. Their chemistry carried off the movie set and into the marriage chapel.

“When Jennifer walks in, I shake her hand, and we kinda have a look at one another — and in my head, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to marry this girl,’” Cris stated in a 2013 episode of Oprah: The place Are They Now?, per HuffPost. That dream rapidly become a nightmare for each Cris and J.Lo.

“Each time we would go away a spot, we would go away individually,” he stated within the episode. “I suppose the primary introduction to me being along with her was once we have been on the Oscars. It was simply bedlam. I’ve by no means seen so many individuals concentrated in a single place, particularly cameras. I knew she was there to do a job, and so I used to be simply that man who was simply by her facet.”

J.Lo filed for divorce in July 2022, 9 months after the marriage. Although Cris’s father would give an interview in 2002 the place he pinned the blame for the breakup on Ben Affleck, Cris himself was keen to let bygones be bygones. “Throughout the time once we have been separated, and we have been going via [the] divorce, I used to be getting lots of calls to interview, and naturally, everybody desires to know the grime about your marriage and what went unsuitable,” Judd stated. “And I by no means wished to try this as a result of that’s nobody’s enterprise.”

Marc Anthony

“No me ames
Para estar muriendo
Dentro de una guerra llena de arrepentimientos
No me ames
Para estar en tierra
Quiero alzar el vuelo con tu gran amor
Por el azul del cielo.”

Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony, “No Me Ames“

Within the J.Lo timeline, Cris Judd got here earlier than “Bennifer 1.0,” and Marc Anthony got here afterward. J.Lo and Marc reportedly started courting in September 2003, shortly after J.Lo and Ben introduced they have been suspending their nuptials. By 2004, Ben and Jen had break up, and in June 2004, she stated “I do” to Marc in a small ceremony that included simply 30 friends.

Marc and J.Lo had been associates for years earlier than they grew to become romantic. In her ebook, True Love, she stated that Ben was her “first actual heartbreak” and that Marc’s arrival was good timing. Reuniting him was the “begin of her fairy story,” and he made her “really feel liked” throughout a low level (h/t Cheat Sheet).

For some time, it seemed like these two have been going to make it. J.Lo and Marc welcomed twins Emme and Max on February 22, 2008. Plus, as J.Lo would inform Cosmopolitan in 2013, marriage to Marc lifted her confidence. “The most important insecurity I had was my singing,” she stated. “Despite the fact that I had offered 70 million data, there was this sense like, I’m not good at this. And whereas I used to be married to Marc, he helped me recover from it. He saved telling me, ‘You’re the one one holding your self again from reaching your full potential as a singer. It’s important to let go.’”

Letting go is what these two did. “We have now determined to finish our marriage,” Mar and J.Lo stated of their 2011 announcement, per the New York Post. “This was a really troublesome determination. We have now come to an amicable conclusion on all issues. It’s a painful time for all concerned, and we respect the respect of our privateness presently.”

J.Lo wrote in her ebook that the issues that led to her divorce have been Marc stemmed from her personal low shallowness. She and her ex-husband have since been on wonderful phrases, co-parenting their children and praising one another within the press.

“The factor about Jennifer is her skill to see and perceive issues earlier than they occur. Earlier than she even brings an concept up, she has visualized it a thousand occasions. And if anybody says it may not be the best concept, she’ll say, ‘You simply don’t see it but,’” Marc stated within the April 2021 cowl story for InStyle. “9 occasions out of 10, she’ll nail it. She’s the primary one within the room and the final to go away. The toughest employee I’ve ever met. After we have been collectively, it was fairly the alternative for me. That has modified since. I discovered a lot from her. She’s the unique!”

Ben Affleck

I simply can’t management myself
I can’t be with nobody else
It appears I’m hooked on the way in which you want to the touch me
I don’t assume they perceive
Why I like at your command
From the phrases you communicate
So deep our our bodies meet, I needed to have you ever

Jennifer Lopez, “Dear Ben“

Ben Affleck first started courting Jennifer after her second divorce. They met whereas filming Gigli in 2001, got engaged in November 2002, and known as the whole lot off in 2004. Quick ahead to April 2021, and J.Lo has just called off her relationship with A-Rod. Ben was photographed getting out of J.Lo’s SUV, sparking rumors of a “Bennifer 2.0.” A number of days later, after Ben and Jen participated within the Might 2 Vax Stay occasion in Los Angeles, they boarded a airplane headed to the Yellowstone Membership resort in Montana. The 2 have been photographed cruising across the Massive Sky state. The couple quickly confirmed the romance was again on earlier than taking their love all over the world and again once more.

In his time aside from J.Lo, Ben married Jennifer Garner, grew to become a father of three, divorced, and dated a handful of women. And in 2022, Ben proposed to J.Lo for a second time, with the pair making it official on July 16, 2022. Evidently believing in “fortunately ever after” pays off.

Following their shock authorized nuptials in Vegas (the place, per her OnTheJLo publication, she wore a “gown from an outdated film”), the pair celebrated with a wedding ceremony and reception on Aug. 20, 2021 surrounded by family and friends. The three-day occasion, deliberate by Colin Cowie, occurred on Ben’s 87-acre estate in Riceboro, Georgia — about an hour out of Savannah. Jennifer shocked in a customized Ralph Lauren dress with a 20 foot veil for the large day, looking so in love as she kissed Ben after their ceremony, officiated by Jay Shetty.