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Jennifer Lopez shared penetration into her vacation plans with household and her “quiet evenings” successful aft her divided from ex Ben Affleck earlier this year.
By Rachel McRady Nov 06, 2024 7:11 PMTags
Ben Affleck Makes Surprising Comment About Jennifer Lopez Amid Divorce
Jennifer Lopez has her sights acceptable connected making caller memories.
Fresh off her split from estranged husband Ben Affleck, this vacation play the 55-year-old is focusing connected her self-care and spending clip with her loved ones, including her and ex Marc Anthony’s 16-year-old twins Emme and Max.
“It was a beauteous aggravated twelvemonth for me, and I'm astir looking guardant to spending clip with my kids and my household coming retired from the East Coast,” Lopez told People. “The holidays are specified a peculiar clip for us, and they've ever been since I was a small girl. And I truly look guardant to those moments erstwhile I tin beryllium with my sisters and conscionable unbend and person amusive and make caller memories.”
Though the triple menace often has respective projects successful the works, she said she enjoys utilizing the vacation play to “slow down.”
"We don't get to spot each different each year, truthful we benignant of drawback up connected what everybody's doing and however beingness is,” she said. “It's conscionable a beauteous time. I truly bask it.”
In summation to spending clip with loved ones, Lopez shared penetration into however she gets into the festive spirit—and it involves going each retired astir the house.
“I emotion each of the decorations and the blistery cocoa and the euphony and the food,” she shared, “and I'm 1 of those radical who truly tries to marque it retired of a storybook for my kids with each of those things. I'm a sucker for the holidays.”
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In the aftermath of her breakup from Affleck aft 2 years of marriage—she filed for divorcement successful August but stated the day of separation was backmost successful April according to documents obtained by TMZ—Lopez is prioritizing herself.
“I don't deliberation there's a busier clip of the twelvemonth than the holidays [but] adjacent during a engaged vacation season, I effort to support my regular consistent,” she noted. “Once the kids person gone to bed, I'm like, okay, my time. Put my look disguise on. Watch The Great British Baking Show or whatever's on.”
While these days, she’s having “quiet evenings” in, Lopez plans to absorption connected her vocation arsenic she heads into her adjacent chapter.
“I'm besides mounting my sights connected pushing my boundaries creatively and seeing wherever that takes me, whether that's done acting oregon euphony oregon producing oregon expanding JLo Beauty,” she added. “I privation to proceed challenging myself to germinate and to effort caller things portion each the portion being existent to who I americium and those that I love.”
To look backmost astatine Lopez and Affleck's romance, work on.
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December 2001: Filming Gigli
The two prepare to movie a country for the movie successful West Hollywood. The mates met on the acceptable of the film.
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October 2002: Spotted successful Beverly Hills
The 2 are spotted successful the city.
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November 2002: Filming Gigli and Engagement
The 2 movie the movie connected Will Rogers State Beach successful Los Angeles. That month, the histrion proposes to the histrion with a 6.1-carat pinkish diamond ring.
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November 2002: Filming Jersey Girl
The 2 movie the movie successful New York City.
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November 2002: Leaving MTV's TRL
Is determination thing much '00s than some Bennifer 1.0 and TRL?
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December 2002: Red Carpet Debut
The 2 marque their reddish carpet debut arsenic a mates astatine the premiere of her film Maid successful Manhattan.
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January 2003: Sundance
The 2 bundle up astatine the Sundance Film Festival successful Utah.
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February 2003: Daredevil Premiere
The 2 look astatine the premiere of Daredevil, starring Ben arsenic the superhero.
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February 2003: Daredevil Premiere
The 2 look astatine the premiere of Daredevil, starring Ben and aboriginal ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
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March 2003: Oscars
The 2 be the Academy Awards together.
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May 2003: Basketball Game
The 2 beryllium courtside astatine a Los Angeles Lakers game.
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July 2003: Canada Trip
The 2 movie a Dateline interrogation for NBC successful Vancouver.
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July 2003: Gigli Premiere
The 2 look astatine the premiere for their movie successful Westwood, Calif.
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August 2003: Gigli Is Released
...it flops astatine the container office.
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September 2003: Wedding Is Off
The 2 postpone their wedding. No aboriginal day is given.
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October 2003: Baseball Date
The 2 are seen astatine a Boston Red Sox game. The squad is Ben's favorite.
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January 2004: It's Over
The 2 extremity their engagement.
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September 2021: Red Carpet Royalty
They're baaaack. On Sept. 10, the mates makes their archetypal reddish carpet quality successful 18 years astatine the Venice Film Festival premiere of The Last Duel.
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September 2021: Look of Love
There's nary denying J.Lo makes for a stunning plus-one!
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September 2021: Back to the Stage
Ben supports J.Lo astatine the 2021 Global Citizen Live lawsuit successful New York City, wherever she performed onstage. It marked her archetypal euphony gig since she performed astatine VAX LIVE successful May, wherever the histrion besides appeared onstage separately, fueling rumors of a rekindled romance.
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September 2021: Met Gala Debut
The 2 be the Met Gala unneurotic for the archetypal time.
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October 2021: PDA astatine Premiere
Jen and Ben enactment connected a sizzling show connected the reddish carpet astatine the premiere of his film The Last Duel successful New York City.
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April 2022: Engaged Again!
Jennifer confirmed her engagement to the Gone Girl histrion with a video posted to her On The JLo site, revealing a glimpse of her beauteous engagement ringing with a greenish stone.
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July 2022: Married!
On July 16, Jennifer and Ben tied the knot successful a astonishment ceremonial astatine A Little White Wedding Chapel successful Las Vegas.
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July 2022: Post-Wedding Trip to Paris
The 2 abrogation with her twins and 2 of his kids successful the French superior soon aft their wedding.
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June 2023: Red Carpet Fabulous
J.Lo steps retired with Ben successful enactment of his movie The Flash.
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February 2024: This Is Them...Now
Jennifer merchandise This Is Me... Now, an medium astir her narration with Ben. The grounds is accompanied by a philharmonic movie titled This Is Me... Now: A Love Story and the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
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March 2024: Jenny connected the Block
The mates enjoys a time retired successful NYC connected March 30, 2024.
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August 2024: Divorce
J.Lo filed for divorcement Aug. 20, listing the day of separation arsenic Apil 26, according to the filing obtained by TMZ.
