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two weeks later Jennifer Lopez married to her old flame Ben Affleck, the actress’s first husband, Ojani Noa, said he wishes the two well, but has doubts they will be together “forever”.
“I wish her and Ben the best, but I’m not sure it will last,” the Cuban actor and personal trainer, who was married to Lopez between 1997 and 1998, told the Daily Mail in an interview published on Saturday. “Jen loves being in love, but she’s been engaged six times. Ben is husband number four. I was husband number one and she told me I was the love of her life. When we slept together on our wedding night, she said we would.” be together forever”.
He said he is happy that his ex has affleck married but he thinks he is “someone who will marry seven or eight times.”
“I can’t see her settling down with just one person,” he admitted. “She strives to constantly move forward in her professional life, which is why she’s had a three-decade career, but she’s also moving forward in her private life.”
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez attend the “The Last Showdown” red carpet during the 78th Venice Film Festival on September 10, 2021 in Venice, Italy.
(Stephan Cardinale)
Noa said she often felt like “Mr. Cinderella” when she was with the “Marry Me” star.
He eventually said their relationship was complicated by what he called “celebrity-eating parasites” after she became a superstar.
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He said they met in 1996 when he was working as a waiter at Gloria Estefan’s Miami restaurant after he fled Cuba. “I had no idea who she was,” he said. “Our eyes met and I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.”
He said that she later told him that she knew the first night they met that she was going to marry him.
Jennifer Lopez, right, with her first husband, Ojani Noa.
(Photo by Barry King/WireImage)
After they married, and she became an overnight sensation with 1997’s “Selena,” she said their relationship began to sour. He said he had new people around her who wanted to make money off of her, and was jealous that he started seeing her in photos with rapper Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, which she said was just ” business”. She and Combs dated after his split from Noa.
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Noa also said that she didn’t want to get pregnant because she was worried it would hurt her career.
“She went from Jen to J Lo, this big business was making millions,” she said of her instant stardom.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck married in an impromptu ceremony in Las Vegas.
(Jennifer Lopez/OntheJLo.com)
“We fell in love when she was already famous,” he told the outlet. “But during our marriage, she became a megastar.” For years, it was too painful to talk about it. She wanted to hide me and live my life. But when I saw that she married Ben, who is a good guy, the feelings came flooding back.”
Lopez and Affleck they were previously engaged in 2002 before splitting in 2004. The couple rekindled their romance last year before deciding to tie the knot on July 17 at a Las Vegas wedding chapel. The couple had announced their second engagement in April.
Before getting back together with Affleck, Lopez had been engaged to former baseball player Alex Rodriguez.
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The Puerto Rican pop star was married to dancer Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003 and singer Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014. She and Anthony share 14-year-old twins Emme and Max.