Jennifer Lopez, 54, said she and her husband, Ben Affleck, 51, have “post-traumatic stress disorder” brought on by media attention during their first romance. The two got back together in April 2021, after separating in 2004, and got married in 2022.
In an interview with Variety magazine, Lopez revealed that she had some concerns about putting her love life in the spotlight again. “As artists, we have to follow our heart and this is me following my heart and doing something that maybe everyone else didn’t think was the best idea, but I had to do it,” she said.
She added, “We both have post-traumatic stress disorder,” about the media frenzy she and Affleck faced when they started dating. “But now we’re older. We’re wiser.”
“We also know what’s important, what’s really important in life, and it’s not so much what other people think. It’s being true to yourself,” he continued.
For the couple, a lot has changed in 18 years. “Now we’re older, we’re smarter, we have more experience, we’re in different places in our lives, now we have kids, and we need to be very aware of these things,” Lopez told People magazine in February 2022.
The superstar spouses, who are parents to five children (two by Lopez and three by Affleck from other marriages), also have the benefit of life lessons learned along the way.
“It’s a beautiful outcome that this happened this way, at this time in our lives, where we can really appreciate and celebrate each other and respect each other,” said the powerhouse pop singer and actress. “We’ve always done this, but we appreciate it even more because we know life can take us in different directions.”
Looking back at the media circus that surrounded their relationship before they split in 2004, Lopez told People: “I think now we’re strong enough to know what’s real and what’s not, whereas when we were younger maybe some of those voices external factors were a little more difficult for us to reconcile and survive.”
Source: Folha
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