There were a lot of things that people saw through that show, but more than anything I think they saw my heart, that I was a cool, funny person, that I was a nice person. I loved meeting the kids because I so identified with their dreams-I just loved it. Up until then we only had what the media was telling you about me. “It was like, Oh! That’s all I had to do this whole time was be myself? Although it was a competition, it was a reality show,” she explains, “and I had never done one. “I became very guarded because I realized that they will fillet you. There was a lot underneath the surface there, people not wanting us to be together, people thinking I wasn’t the right person for him.” Over the ensuing years Lopez has seemed to gather a force field around her, as if weaponized against derisive scrutiny. We were just living out loud, and it turned out to really bite us. It didn’t feel like we needed to hide from anybody or be real discreet. And we were just living our lives, being happy and out there. “We were so young and so in love at that time, really very carefree, with no kids, no attachments. “I was from the Bronx, and who didn’t say what they thought there?” Her early relationship with Affleck offered a cruel lesson, as the tabloid press denigrated her with racist and classist dog whistles South Park parodied her viciously, and Conan O’Brien told his audience that the show’s “cleaning lady” would be playing Lopez in a sketch. “I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time 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,” she wrote in her newsletter.ĬNN’s Lisa Respers France contributed to this report.“In the beginning I was of the mind that I could say or do anything,” she recalls. It then took another 17 years – with children and marriages – before Lopez and Affleck found their way back to one another.Īffleck proposed to Lopez again in April while she was soaking in a bubble bath. They never made it down the aisle and officially called off their engagement in January 2004. The couple initially met in December 2001 on the set of the rom-com “Gigli,” where they played criminals stuck on a job together and the pair strike up real-life friendship.īy November 2002, the two were engaged, but postponed their wedding in September 2003 citing “the excessive media attention” surrounding their wedding. The Bennifer love saga is one that’s been more than 20 years in the making. “In the end it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined.” “We read our own vows in the little chapel and gave one another the rings we’ll wear for the rest of our lives,” she wrote. Lopez wrote she wore a dress from an old movie and Affleck wore a jacket from his closet. They graciously stayed open late a few minutes, let us take pictures in a pink Cadillac convertible, evidently once used by the king himself (but if we wanted Elvis himself to show, that cost extra and he was in bed).” “We barely made it to the little white wedding chapel by midnight. “Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line for a license with four other couples, all making the same journey to the wedding capital of the world,” Lopez wrote. Lopez confirmed their Vegas wedding in her newsletter Sunday, ending the letter with a new name: Mrs. The couple wed Saturday, during an “intimate ceremony in Las Vegas,” the source said. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have officially tied the knot, a source close to Lopez tells CNN.
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