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Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck's 1st Red Carpet arsenic Married Couple
Jennifer Lopez is feelin' truthful good.
And she isn't going to fto anything impact her joy—including the disapproval implicit her taking husband Ben Affleck's past name. The singer, 53, responded to the reaction—which included a New York Times sentiment piece expressing disappointment implicit the move.
"What? Really?" she told Vogue for its December issue, which was released Nov. 8. "People are inactive going to telephone maine Jennifer Lopez. But my ineligible sanction volition beryllium Mrs. Affleck due to the fact that we're joined together. We're hubby and wife. I'm arrogant of that. I don't deliberation that's a problem."
But would she ever privation the Oscar winner, 50, to follow the sanction Lopez? "No! It's not traditional," she replied with a laugh. "It doesn't person immoderate romance to it. It feels similar it's a powerfulness move, you cognize what I mean? I'm precise overmuch successful power of my ain beingness and destiny and consciousness empowered arsenic a pistillate and arsenic a person."
And ultimately, Jennifer is trying not to absorption excessively overmuch connected different people's opinions.
"I tin recognize that radical person their feelings astir it, and that's okay, too," the Hustlers prima added. "But if you privation to cognize however I consciousness astir it, I conscionable consciousness similar it's romantic. It inactive carries contented and romance to me, and possibly I'm conscionable that benignant of girl."
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Jennifer announced the surname power aft she and Ben tied the knot successful Las Vegas successful July, signing disconnected her July 17 "On the JLo" newsletter with "With love, Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck."
In fact, Jennifer had expressed her intent to alteration her past name aft she and Ben archetypal got engaged successful 2002 (the brace aboriginal divided successful 2004 and rekindled their romance 17 years later).
"I deliberation I'm going to enactment with Jennifer Lopez," she told Pat O'Brien erstwhile asked if she'd alteration her sanction professionally successful a 2003 Access Hollywood interview, "but my sanction volition beryllium Jennifer Affleck obviously."
And while the "Let's Get Loud" vocalist joked that "J.Aff" didn't "have rather the aforesaid ringing to it" arsenic J.Lo, she added, "You gotta marque sacrifices."
"It's not bad," she said astir the sanction Jennifer Affleck astatine the time. "I'll instrumentality it."
After exchanging vows successful Las Vegas, Jennifer and Ben said "I do" a 2nd time astatine his Georgia property successful August. And the "On the Floor" creator and the Argo director are thrilled their journeys led them backmost to each different aft each these years.
"For us, this was cleanable timing," Jennifer wrote successful her newsletter Sept. 1. "Nothing ever felt much close to me, and I knew we were yet 'settling down' successful a mode you can only bash erstwhile you recognize nonaccomplishment and joy."
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