Jennifer Lopez doesn’t assume it’s an issue that she took husband Ben Affleck’s final identify ― regardless of the criticism.
“People are still going to call me Jennifer Lopez. But my legal name will be Mrs. Affleck because we’re joined together,” the “Marry Me” actor mentioned in Vogue’s December difficulty. “We’re husband and wife. I’m proud of that. I don’t think that’s a problem.”
Lopez and the Vogue interviewer had been discussing the identify change in mild of a New York Times opinion piece that mentioned the entertainer’s choice to go by Mrs. Affleck was “especially dispiriting” as a consequence of “the cringe-y history behind the practice.”
“I’m very much in control of my own life and destiny and feel empowered as a woman and as a person,” Lopez instructed Vogue. “I can understand that people have their feelings about it, and that’s okay, too. But if you want to know how I feel about it, I just feel like it’s romantic. It still carries tradition and romance to me, and maybe I’m just that kind of girl.”
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Lopez and Affleck acquired engaged for a second time in April 2022, after rekindling their early-2000s romance that led to a damaged engagement in 2004. The two tied the knot twice: first at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in July, adopted by an even bigger celebration at Affleck’s house in Georgia in August.
“I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there,” Lopez instructed Vogue of reuniting with Affleck after virtually twenty years. “People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real.”
“I don’t know that I recommend this for everybody,” Lopez added. “Sometimes you outgrow each other, or you just grow differently. The two of us, we lost each other and found each other.”
To learn extra of Lopez’s profile, head to Vogue. The December difficulty hits newsstands on Nov. 15.
