Meet Mr and Mrs Affleck! Timeline of Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck’s relationship from scratch

Once again Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's romance is in full swing and no one can be happier than us! Nearly two decades ago, they came close while shooting a movie and went on to become one of Hollywood's power couples.

As the couple said 'I do' finally, here we bring you the whole story of their romance from the year 2001 to 2022.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez starred together for the first time in the movie 'Gigli'. Although the movie terribly failed at the box office, their relationship sparkled.

At that time, Lopez was married to her second husband, Cris Judd, but Lopez filed for divorce in June 2002 and it was finalised the following year.
 

Around March 2002, rumours surfaced that Lopez and Affleck are more than friends and the following year, Lopez filed for divorce from Judd.

They got married in September 2001, but things turned out differently for the couple throughout their relationship and they called it off in June 2002.
 

Being in the media's eyes for months, by the end of the year 2002, Jennifer Lopez and Ben were engaged.

After Lopez’s music video for 'Jenny from the Block', in November 2002, Affleck popped the question with a 6.1-carat pink diamond by Harry Winston that reportedly cost $2.5 million. Lopez disclosed the happy news in an interview with Sawyer calling the proposal “traditional, but also in a very spectacular way. 
 

Despite the failure of 'Gigli', the couple got together again and filmed their second movie, 'Jersey Girl' -- in the movie, Lopez played Affleck’s character’s wife who died onscreen immediately. The movie turned out another box office bomb.

The movie released in 2004 after the couple split. 
 

Considered as one of the Hollywood's power couples, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez rose the temperature when they walked the red carpet at the 75th Annual Academy Awards. 
 

After a hush-hush year, in September 2003, days before their planned wedding, Ben and Jennifer decided to postpone it, citing ''excessive media attention''.

In 2004, months after on-again-off-again rumours about their wedding and relationship, Lopez and Affleck officially called off their engagement and ended their relationship.

After their split, Jennifer and Ben both moved on quickly and tied the knot with other celebs and had kids. 

In June 2004, Jennifer married friend and singer Marc Anthony, with whom she shares twins. Meanwhile, the 'Batman' star tied the knot with Jennifer Garner in June 2005 in a private ceremony. The couple shares three children together.

Anthony and Lopez divorced in 2014. Lasting longer, Garner and Affleck finalised their divorce in 2018.

Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez began dating in early 2017 and announced their engagement in March 2019. After two years of dating, the couple were scheduled to tie the knot in Italy in June 2020, but after the Coronavirus pandemic hit in March 2020, they had to put their wedding plans on hold.

After months of speculation, in April 2021, the couple officially confirmed that they have parted ways. 

The 51-year-old singer and 45-year-old baseball player issued an official statement, reading: ''We have realized we are better as friends and look forward to remaining so. We will continue to work together and support each other on our shared businesses and projects''. 

''We wish the best for each other and one another's children. Out of respect for them, the only other comment we have is to say is thank you to everyone who has sent kind words and support,", they concluded. 

In 2020, Affleck began dating Ana de Armas while filming the upcoming thriller 'Deep Water' in New Orleans. Nearly making headline for a year, the couple called it quits in January 2021. 

"Ben is no longer dating Ana," a source told People magazine. "She broke it off. Their relationship was complicated. Ana doesn't want to be Los Angeles based and Ben obviously has to since his kids live in Los Angeles." 

Ben and Jennifer rekindled their relationship in April last year. The couple were quick to take the headlines when the reports of their reunion started swirling.

Affleck was first spotted going into Lopez's home in April, in the midst of her split with Alex Rodriguez.

 

In April 2022, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got engaged, yet once again. 

In April, JLo announced her engagement and shared a short clip in her newsletter, 'On The JLo', in which she started crying and emotionally looking at her shiny green ring.

“You’re perfect,” she says in the voiceover.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are finally married. The couple tied the knot in the simplest wedding one could imagine. 

Over the weekend, the couple said 'I do' in Los Angeles. Later the couple revealed via a statement reading, "Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient. Exactly what we wanted."