Could there be a more beloved romantic in Hollywood thantheJennifer Lopez?
“What I can teach my children is that real love exists,” she toldPeoplein early 2022.
“Some things can be forever, but it doesn’t mean they just have a straight line.”
It’s been a long love road since Lopez burst onto the scene in theearly 1990s.
Where did it all begin?
Here’s a complete timeline of Jennifer Lopez’s relationships.
“I had a vision.”
That vision included her date for the evening: David Cruz, her high-school sweetheart.
“You get lucky [when] you have a first love like that,” she said.
The two married in 1997 but divorced less than a year later, in 1998.
Then in 2009, she sued to keep him from releasing a video recording from their honeymoon.
Jennifer Lopez and Sean Combs have stayed friendly since their 2001 breakup
Everyone remembersthatgreen dress.
But do you remember who Jennifer Lopez’s date was for the 2000 Grammy Awards?
A few years after their breakup, Lopez confirmed the rumors to Vibe (viaEntertainment Weekly).
“It was the first time I was with someone who wasn’t faithful,” she said.
“I never caught him, but I just knew,” Lopez added.
“It wasn’t no trolling involved,” Combs toldVanity Fairthat same year about the post.
“That’s just my friend.”
JLo’s rebound was sweet but short.
Judd and Lopez married in 2001 butparted waysin 2002, after less than a year of marriage.
“But marriage is not just about love.
I thought I had learned that in my first marriage.”
In late 2001 to early 2002, she starred opposite Ben Affleck in “Gigli.”
And by personal, we’re talking about the taking-out-ads-in-the-paper level of intensity.
I only wish I were lucky enough to be in all your movies."
From there, the flame between “Bennifer” grew.
The media scrutiny ultimately proved to be too much for Affleck and Lopez.
The twocalled off their engagementin 2004.
They married in the backyard of JLo’s Los Angeles home (viaHistory).
Theirdivorce was finalizedin 2014.
“It wasn’t the dream that I had hoped for,” Lopez toldW magazinein 2016.
“I hung in there for seven years.
[But] I knew very quickly that it wasn’t the right thing.”
In an interview with Univision in 2019, Smart said their chemistry was off the charts (viaHola).
In spite of that, their 18-year age difference ended up being a factor in their five-year on/off status.
“[But] I was very young and selfish.
I thought I was ready for a relationship with a woman with kids and everything.”
“I had to get happy on my own.
It’s been a learning curve.”
This time, it was the rom-com queen in a close embrace with rapper Drake.
Around the time of their rumored fling, neither Lopez nor Drake ever officially commented on their status.
“I have plenty of love for her,” he said.
“We were just hanging out at one point.
… She’s a great artist, great mother.
I got nothing but positive things to say about her.”
They also unsuccessfully bid for an ownership stake in the New York Mets baseball team.
“He got me comfortable with investing my own money into other companies and into myself.”
However, it reportedly took Rodriguez a bit of time to get over his ex (viaE!
Could the best gossip in two decades really be true?
Would the world be graced with Bennifer …
In April 2021, Affleck was spotted leaving Lopez’s Los Angeles home, according toPage Six.
And just like their first pairing, the two didn’t waste any time.
Just a year later, Affleck proposed to JLo (in a bubble bath!)
with an 8.5-carat green diamond ring worth upwards of $10 million, according toHarper’s Bazaar.
Lopez, though, is confident that she and Affleck are in it for the long haul.
“There’s more of an appreciation and a celebration for it, which is nice.”
