Jennifer Lopez, 54, proudly introduces her new boyfriend…
Ever since she entered the spotlight, Jennifer Lopez’s love life has been scrutinized under a microscope. From her decades-spanning romance with Ben Affleck to her rumored dalliance with Drake, Lopez’s list of suitors continues to captivate the public’s imagination.
It’s a fascination that her ninth studio album This Is Me … Now and the accompanying movie-musical bolstered. The singer nods to the many high-profile relationships that preceded and followed her most recent relationship with Affleck, and she also acknowledges her hopeless romantic tendencies. As she says while narrating the trailer for This Is Me … Now: A Love Story: “Whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always: ‘In love.’”
Ahead, we track all of Lopez’s marriages, engagements, and relationships—from her partnership with singer Marc Anthony to her broken engagement with Alex Rodriguez.
Ben Affleck (2021—2024)
“Did you ever imagine your biggest dream could come true?” Lopez asked in a special edition of her fan newsletter, On the JLo. “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed. I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again, I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘is that a yes?’ I said YES of course that’s a YES.”
The two officially tied the knot in a surprise Las Vegas ceremony in July 2022. They celebrated the nuptials with a second, more extravagant wedding in Georgia the following month.
At the tail end of that year, Lopez announced the forthcoming release of This Is Me … Now, which was heavily inspired by her renewed romance with Affleck. “When he came back into my life, again the same thing happened, where I felt so inspired and so overtaken with emotion that it was just pouring out of me,” she told Zane Lowe in an interview for Apple Music. “When I feel good, I write music. And I wrote music, and I got in the studio in I think May, and by August when we got married, it was done.”
Affleck has similarly been open about his adoration for his wife since their unexpected reunion.
“She is incredibly knowledgeable about the way fashion evolves through the culture as a confluence of music, sports, entertainment and dance,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2023.
And during a red carpet event, he told Entertainment Tonight, “She’s brilliant and [she] helps me in every conceivable way.”
Unfortunately, their second chance quickly soured into a second break-up. In August 2024, Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck, citing April 26, 2024 as the date of separation. The news followed months of speculation over their marital status, with the two reportedly living under separate roofs and spending much of the summer apart from each other.
Alex Rodriguez (2017—2021)
In a 2019 interview with Sports Illustrated, Lopez reflected on meeting MLB player Alex Rodriguez for the first time at a 2005 Yankees game in New York City: “We shook hands, and it was this weird electricity for, like, three seconds … Three to five seconds of looking at somebody right in their eyes, and getting stuck.”
