Exes supporting exes. Jennifer Garner might have silently supported Ben Affleck amid his Jennifer Lopez divorce rumors. The exes have a supportive relationship after their divorce and often talk about their blended family.
Jennifer Garner reportedly visited Ben Affleck at his home in Brentwood, where he’s been staying since moving out of his shared home with Jennifer Lopez according to OK! Magazine. Garner reportedly went to the house alone without their three children after they both watched their son, Samuel’s basketball game.
According to Us Weekly, “Garner is encouraging Ben to work on his marriage to Jen,” a source said. “She fully supports their relationship and wants nothing more than for him to be happy,” adding that being in the spotlight “can put a strain” on any relationship.
Later, Garner attended the graduation of her and Afflect’s daughter Violet. “Tell me you have a graduate without telling me you have a graduate,” she wrote on an Instagram caption featuring pictures and a video of her being emotional for her oldest daughter. “bless our hearts.” In the video, the 13 Going On 30 visibly teared up on a plane as she worries about making it to her daughter’s graduation, “How are we going to make it? What are we going to do?”
InTouch Weekly first reported about the alleged breakup between Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. “The writing is on the wall—it’s over. They’re headed for a divorce—and for once, [Ben’s] not to blame!” a source told the outlet. “He’s focusing on his work and his kids now. Ben already moved out and they’ll likely have to sell the dream house they spent two years searching for. They’ll never stop loving each other, but she can’t control him, and he can’t change her. There’s no way it could have lasted.”
Another source told Us Weekly that the two aren’t heading towards a divorce, but they are having frequent arguments. “Jen and Ben are having issues in their marriage,” the insider disclosed, adding that it started “a few months ago as Jen had started ramping up work commitments and prepping for her tour.”
The source continued, “Jen is very focused on work,” the source tells Us. “They are on two completely different pages most of the time.” Three sources confirmed to the site that they are not divorcing and are aiming to resolve their problems.
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In J.Lo’s documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Affleck admitted, “Getting back together, I said, ‘Listen, one of the things I don’t want is a relationship on social media.’ Then I sort of realized it’s not a fair thing to ask. It’s sort of, like, you’re going to marry a boat captain and you go, ‘Well, I don’t want the water.’ We’re trying to learn to compromise.”
J-Lo and Ben met in 2001 on the set of their movie, Gigli, in which they played love interests. They started dating in 2002, around the time Ben also starred as the love interest in the music video for J-Lo’s song, “Jenny From the Block.”
In November 2002, Affleck proposed to J-Lo with a 6.1-carat pink diamond ring from Harry Winston, and the two got engaged. Two days before they were scheduled to tie the knot in September 2003, J-Lo and Affleck announced that they had postponed their wedding and eventually called it off. Affleck moved on with Jennifer Garner and had three children together, Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12. The two separated in 2015 and had their divorce finalized in 2018.
J-Lo and Ben got engaged for a second time in April 2022 and married in July 2022 at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada and had a second wedding at Ben’s estate in Georgia. “We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” J-Lo wrote in her newsletter, On the JLo, at the time. She continued, “They were right when they said, ‘all you need is love’.”
