Ben Affleck's Cousin Makes Cheeky Nod to Jennifer Lopez Amid Divorce
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Jennifer Lopez Proves She's "Unbothered" Amid Ben Affleck Divorce
Ben Affleck’s cousin is attempting to fill some big shoes.
Indeed, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jennifer Affleckrecently paid homage to her cousin’s ex Jennifer Lopez in a social media video.
The Sept. 1 TikTok video sees Jennifer visiting her costar Jessi Ngatikaura’s salon to get hair extensions, and lip-syncing along to “Jenny From the Block” as she undergoes her beauty transition.
And the 25-year-old cheekily adds in her caption alongside a winking emoji, “The new Jenny from the block.”
Of course, Jennifer became the apple of a certain Affleck’s eye back in 2019—when she tied the knot with Ben and Casey Affleck’s second cousin Zac Affleck—who is the son of their first cousin Dave Affleck.
And Jennifer had joked about her distant relatives in the past. In a video she shared shortly after Ben—who shares Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, with ex Jennifer Garner—tied the knot with J.Lo in 2022, she added, “Can’t forget that Ben Affleck is my husbands second cousin.”
The reality star also poked fun at having the same name as J.Lo after she married the Armageddon star.
“When you thought you were going to be the next J.Lo,” Jennifer wrote at the time. “But instead she stole your name.”
However, J.Lo, currently legally known as Jennifer Lynn Affleck, will no longer be dubbed with Ben’s moniker, as she noted a request to restore her original name, Jennifer Lynn Lopez, in her Aug. 20 divorce paperwork.
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But while the Maid in Manhattan star—who shares 16-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex Marc Anthony—has cut ties with the Affleck name, she remains unbothered.
In fact, the 55-year-old recently delivered an update of her own on social media, noting in a Sept. 1 Instagram post, “Oh, it was a summer.”
And the “Let’s Get Loud” singer proved she’s doing just fine after her breakup from Ben, donning a T-shirt in one photo of her post that declared, “She’s in bloom and unbothered, out of reach and at peace.”
Keep reading to see everything that led up to Jennifer and Ben’s divorce.