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The ‘Bennifer’ saga is as fascinating as it is complicated. Fans who have followed Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s relationship since the early 2000s witnessed the rise and fall of their romance. Their high-profile affair began after the two met on Gigli’s film set in 2002 and hit it off almost immediately. However, they have had their share of ups and downs with JLo once calling the relationship «destructive.»
Long before they reunited in 2021, the couple’s romance fizzled out after they called off their very public engagement in 2004. Although initially, they both dodged the painful topic in the aftermath of their split, Lopez opened up to Vanity Fair in 2017 and spoke in length about «losing her sense of self» in her relationship with Affleck, as per Vogue.
«I lost my sense of self, questioned if I belonged in this business, thought maybe I did suck at everything, And my relationship [with Affleck] self-destructed in front of the entire world», JLo revealed, adding that it took her almost two years to get over her broken relationship with Affleck, «It was a two-year thing for me until I picked myself up again.
