Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are focusing on their children amid their “amicable” divorce, which was announced Tuesday.
The singer, 55, filed for divorce from the actor, 52, without a lawyer on August 20, which also marked the couple’s second wedding anniversary.
The estranged couple’s blended family is said to be “coping well” but are “ready to move on” and return to normal life after their parents’ failed marriage.
JLo shares Emme and Maximilian Muñiz, 16, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Ben welcomed Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12, during his 10-year marriage to Jennifer Garner.
“Her kids are taking it well, as are hers. They are all ready to move on,” a source said. Page six.
Jennifer Lopez, 55, and Ben Affleck, 52, are focusing on their children amid their “amicable” divorce, which was announced Tuesday.
The estranged couple’s blended family is said to be “coping well” but is “ready to move on” and return to normal life after their parents’ failed marriage (the couple pictured with Violet and Fin Affleck and Emme Muniz)
The couple’s five children spent quality time together on vacations, shopping trips and theme parks with JLo and Ben over the years.
JLo has continued to play the beloved stepmother amid her impending divorce and has maintained a normal relationship with Ben’s children.
She has also had a very close relationship with Ben’s children, having previously allowed her stepdaughter Violet to borrow her dress.
Violet was photographed wearing a two-tone Dolce & Gabbana wrap dress during lunch with Jennifer’s twins, Max and Emme, in Los Angeles in 2023.
Violet was also pictured with her arm around her stepmother’s shoulders as they enjoyed another day of shopping.
JLo was also spotted treating her stepson Samuel to a day of shopping alone.
As they walked into the luxury department store Neiman Marcus, Jennifer was photographed with a protective arm around Samuel.
Prior to their divorce, sources previously told Page Six that JLo was “upset” about how their marital split would affect her and Ben’s children.
JLo shares Emme and Maximilian Muñiz, 16, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Ben welcomed Violet Affleck (pictured), 18, Fin Affleck, 15, and Samuel Affleck, 12, during his 10-year marriage to Jennifer Garner.
The singer filed for divorce from the actor without a lawyer on August 20, which also marked the couple’s second wedding anniversary.
“Her kids are taking it well, as are hers. They are all ready to move on,” a source said.
JLo has continued to play the beloved stepmother amid her impending divorce and has maintained a normal relationship with Ben’s children (JLo pictured hugging Violet)
The source said: “There are five children involved in this. She knew they were going to blend families. She hasn’t fully accepted that it’s over.”
JLo, who was recently spotted sporting her wedding ring, has indicated that their split date would be April 26, 2024, according to legal documents seen by DailyMail.com.
The couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement before tying the knot in July 2022, confidential sources revealed.
This is Jennifer’s fourth failed marriage and Ben’s second.
In an interview with Vogue in 2022, Jennifer spoke about the importance of blending their families and the role she wanted to play in Ben’s children’s lives.
She explained: ‘What I hope to cultivate with our family is that his children have a new ally in me and my children have a new ally in him, someone who truly loves them and cares about them, but can have a different perspective and help me see things that I can’t see with my children because I’m so emotionally tied up.’
After the wedding, a source told People that Jennifer “spent months looking for the perfect home” for her blended family.
In January 2023, she told Today: ‘We moved in together. The kids moved in together. It’s been kind of an emotional transition, but at the same time all your dreams have come true.
“It’s been a phenomenal year. I think it’s been my best year since my children were born.”
She has also had a very close relationship with Ben’s children, having previously allowed her stepdaughter Violet to borrow her dress.
JLo previously elevated the ruffled dress with a Dolce & Gabbana belt and sparkling diamond earrings during her romantic dinner in Beverly Hills with Ben in February last year.
Violet has also been pictured with her arm around her stepmother’s shoulders as they enjoyed another day of shopping.
JLo was also seen inviting her stepson Samuel to spend a day shopping alone.
Speaking about her experience as a mother to her twin girls, the star added: “The teenage years are tough. They start to challenge you and all that” (pictured with daughter Emme).
She added: “I feel like I’m surfing. I’m surfing the waves and suddenly I think: ‘Oops, I’ve just been thrown!’. Now I’m back, I’m back!” (pictured with son Max).
During an appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark in May 2023, Jennifer opened up about the challenges of raising four teenagers, but described her stepson Samuel as an “angel.”
She said: ‘There are almost five teenagers. The youngest is 11, so he’s not exactly a teenager, but a pre-teen. He’s an angel.’
Speaking about her experience as a mother to her twin girls, the star added: “The teenage years are tough. They start to get challenging and all that.
“You have this baby for a while and then he’s like your best little friend who loves to be with you all the time, and all of a sudden he’s like, ‘Get out of my room.'”
He added: “I feel like I’m surfing. I’m surfing the waves and suddenly I think: ‘Oops, I’ve just been knocked down! ‘ Now I’m back, I’m back!”
Jennifer’s own friends have now suggested the actress needs to “look inside herself” after filing for divorce from Ben.
A source close to the star told DailyMail.com that those close to JLo are tired of her chaotic love life.
“After four failed marriages, her friends feel she should look inward and focus on herself instead of what others want her to be and finally figure out who she is and what she wants from her future,” the source said.
Jennifer’s own friends have now suggested the actress needs to “look inside herself” after filing for divorce from Ben.
“After four failed marriages, her friends feel she should look inward and focus on herself instead of what others want her to be and finally figure out who she is and what she wants from her future,” the source said.
The source told DailyMail.com that the My Love Don’t Cost A Thing star isn’t the only one capable of playing mind games.
Explaining Ben’s attitude of taking the high road, the source said: “Jennifer said she was tired of Ben humiliating her and waited until the second anniversary because she wanted to be humiliated.
“But it didn’t hurt him. He’s been finished for a long time and deep down she knows it. He let her do it so she wouldn’t look like the bad guy.”
The couple was spotted on several public outings together, including the latest one on June 2, after they had already decided to go their separate ways two months earlier.
At the time, they were seen greeting each other warmly, even appearing to share a kiss, while attending Samuel’s basketball game in Santa Monica.
They also seemed to be in great spirits while hanging out together despite, as it has now been revealed, having already secretly called it off on April 26.
The couple began to spark separation rumors when they had not been seen together for 47 days.
Speculation about their split continued as they skipped several vacations together over the summer and JLo also walked the red carpet alone at the Met Gala in May, which was also when she canceled her world tour “to be with her family.”
Since then, the couple has been spending summers on opposite coasts and have not spent their anniversary together.
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