Seventeen years after their separation, resources tell PEOPLE that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are spending time together again, so let’s take a look back, okay?
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck met on Gigli’s set in 2002. The couple made their romance public soon after and was temporarily one of the first celebrity couples to earn the nickname “bag”: Bennifer.
The couple were noticed on the set of Lopez’s music video for “Jenny from the Block” in October 2002.
The clip featured Affleck and focused on the media frenzy surrounding the couple. In the video, the couple are followed through photographers, noticed reading tabloids about themselves, walking on a yacht, and more.
She may be from the South Bronx, but that hasn’t stopped Lopez from adapting to a Jersey Girl. In November 2002, the couple collaborated on the big screen in the film of the same name, Lopez’s character does not spend much time on screen. .
In November 2002, the couple set up a scene in Central Park, taking a romantic horse-drawn carriage ride.
That same month, Affleck introduced Lopez to a 6. 1-carat pink solitaire diamond through Harry Winston.
Lopez told Diane Sawyer at the time that Affleck’s proposal “is traditional, but also in a very impressive way, as Ben of course . . . she’s very, very beautiful. “
Lopez told Sawyer about his twinning: “We’ve talked about it many times, and we’ve talked about how other people see it with . . . one type of user and me with another type of user, and the two of us in combination is like, “How did this happen?”And how we are probably more alike and come from the same kind of origin . . . the same kind of schooling and the same kind of circle of relatives and the same kind of house. “
In December 2002, Affleck joined Lopez in the release of his film, Maid in Manhattan.
In February 2003, Lopez accompanied Affleck to the premiere of Daredevil.
The pair came hand in hand with the 2003 Oscars, and if that’s not enough evidence that there’s an Oscar for the most productive couple, we don’t know what it is.
As if they hadn’t warmed up the red carpet enough, the couple got dressed at Vanity Fair’s back party.
In May 2003, the pair kissed in the box of a playoff game for the Los Angeles Lakers.
In July 2003, the couple smiled on the red carpet for their next film, Gigli.
The first would be the last on the red carpet as a couple.
In September 2003, a day before the scheduled wedding date, the two men announced that they would postpone their nuptials due to the media frenzy surrounding the event.
In a joint statement, they said: “Because of the media’s attention around our marriage, we have to postpone the date. When we realized that we were seriously considering hiring 3 separate ‘decoy wives’ in 3 other places, we learned that anything was wrong . . . We began to feel that the spirit of what deserved to have been the happiest day of our lives could be compromised. We felt that what deserved to have been a sacred and satisfied day could simply be spoiled for us, our families and our friends. “
Despite the postponement, the two men were satisfied on their way to Dinner in New York in October 2003.
PEOPLE had reported in the past that after a brief separation after the annulment of the marriage, the duo had revived their relationship. In October 2003, Lopez encouraged the Boston Red Sox with Affleck, who was also looking at things with his knob.
The couple will officially separate in January 2004.