For all Bennifer fans like me, our hearts broke with the news that from her husband actor, Ben Affleck. And she's submitted the paperwork no less (ouch). Like some sort of rom-com that you could envision Lopez starring in herself, of the star couple back in 2021 after 17 years apart, was a dream come true for romance and early naughties fans alike.
Originally dating in the early 00s, the pair became engaged and were planning to wed in 2003 but called it off and subsequently split, but remained on good terms. So, in 2021 when rumours of their love flame rekindling began, Bennifer 1.0 fans held their breath with the desperate, romantic-filled hope that perhaps love could conquer all for the couple and that we’d see Bennifer 2.
0 - a love for the ages – born. While an appreciation for the couple (and love, in general) motivated much of this "dream", arguably so did the pandemic. During a period when most of us were struggling, isolating, or scrounging for toilet paper, living vicariously through others via our screens was a great escape and a love story of second chances provided us with good news amongst the mountain of death rolls and outbreaks.
As the celebrity-studded fairytale came to life in front of our very eyes (or screens), with Bennifer going Instagram official in July 2021, quickly becoming engaged and in 2022 it proved that love and second chances could overcome the odds - and that we shouldn't give up on love. Even Lopez’s mentor and friend, icon Jane Fonda ag.