Jennifer Lopez Has “Never Been Better” Since Getting Back Together With Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been busy turning heads on the purple carpet, on the tarmac, and even on a $130 million yacht in Italy, however the reunited couple have been fairly tight-lipped about their rekindled romance. Nonetheless, in a current interview with “Folks,” the “Marry Me” star gushes about her “second likelihood” with the 49-year-old actor. “I’ve by no means been higher. It is simply that we’re all in a really stunning second,” Lopez says, including that she feels “so fortunate and completely happy and proud to be with him.”

When discussing her relationship with Affleck, Lopez displays on the media circus that surrounded them 20 years in the past, saying they’re extra acutely aware of how a lot they share with the general public this time round as a result of “it’s such a phenomenal time for all of us.” She continues, “It is stunning the way in which it feels very completely different than it was years in the past. . . . There’s extra of an appreciation and a celebration for it, which is good. If you discover any person and you actually, actually love them and also you get a second likelihood at that? That may be a actually uncommon, valuable, stunning factor and we do not take it without any consideration.”

Nonetheless, Lopez can not help however gush over Affleck, praising him for the person he is grown to grow to be. “I really feel like he is at a spot in his life the place — similar to how I really feel about myself — it has been a journey of studying your self and figuring your self out, attending to a spot the place you are feeling actually good by yourself and who you might be so that you might be in a cheerful, wholesome relationship,” she says, including that he is all the pieces she “all the time knew he was and wished to be.”

In case you want a fast refresher, Lopez and Affleck first met in 2002 on the set of their film “Gigli,” they usually have been engaged that very same 12 months earlier than calling it quits only a few days earlier than the marriage because of the “extreme media consideration.” Now, 18 years later, the pair are proving that real-life fairy tales can nonetheless exist. In her unique interview with “Folks,” Lopez says she teaches her 13-year-old twins, Max and Emme, that “actual love exists.” She provides, “Some issues might be perpetually, nevertheless it does not imply they simply have a straight line.”