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Jennifer Lopez Proves She's "Unbothered" Amid Ben Affleck Divorce
Jennifer Lopez knows she's going to creation again, contempt what her haters say.
The Hustlers actress—who is successful the midst of a divorcement from Ben Affleck—has had a tumultuous year, some personally and professionally, canceling her This is Me…Now tour conscionable a fewer months earlier her breakup.
But contempt her "whole f--king world" exploding, she's retained important position adjacent arsenic critics connected societal media instrumentality purpose astatine her.
"I cognize that everything that’s being written and said astir me, and each the conjecture of who I americium arsenic a person, is not who I am," Jennifer told Nikki Glaser successful a speech for Interview mag published Oct. 9. "I learned that a agelong clip ago."
In immoderate ways being successful the nationalist oculus for 3 decades has fixed her important clarity. She added, "And societal media, due to the fact that it came on aft I had been successful the nationalist oculus for a while, I don’t instrumentality it arsenic earnestly arsenic everybody else."
Amid each of the extracurricular sound from the public, the 55-year-old said that it's those astir her knowing who she truly is that keeps her grounded.
"I cognize I’m a bully person," Jennifer, who is ma to 16-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex Marc Anthony, explained. I cognize I’m a bully mom. I cognize who my friends are. I cognize my friends cognize who I am, my mom, my dad, each that stuff. If you anticipation to person a agelong career, you person to larn however to woody with that portion of the business."
She went connected to enactment that "some radical are going to emotion you and immoderate are not going to recognize you, and immoderate radical conscionable privation to hatred you to hatred you, and nary of that truly matters."
For the "Love Don't Cost a Thing" singer, it's besides astir reminding herself that she's "been doing this for a precise agelong time" owed to her intrinsic emotion for performing and creating art.
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"What matters for me, arsenic an artist, is doing enactment that inspires maine and that I bask doing," she said, "whether it’s a immense commercialized occurrence oregon thing that lone touches 1 idiosyncratic that cipher ever f--king adjacent sees. It doesn’t matter."
"This is my life’s passion," the Grammy nominee added. "I emotion to sing. I emotion to dance. I emotion to act. I emotion to entertain. I emotion to create."
With each of that being said, Jennifer admitted that antagonistic comments tin inactive impact her from clip to time.
"Anything anybody could accidental astir me," she confessed. "Please don’t get maine wrong, if I spot thing that’s hurtful, I’m not Teflon."
In summation to reflecting connected her nationalist perception, Jennifer besides gave immoderate penetration into what she's learned successful the aftermath of her divided from Ben, who she filed for divorcement from successful August.
"You person to beryllium complete, if you privation thing that’s much complete," she shared. "You person to beryllium bully connected your own. I thought I learned that, but I didn’t. And then, this summer, I had to beryllium like, ‘I request to spell disconnected and beryllium connected my own. I privation to beryllium to myself that I tin bash that."
Keep speechmaking for much connected Jennifer and Ben's relationship.
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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.
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