In 2003, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were planning to get married and start a family. While Affleck avoided sharing their wedding date in interviews, he spoke openly about his desire to have children with Lopez. Affleck said that she was the first person to make him realize he wanted to have children.
He spoke about why he knew she would be a good mother. Ben Affleck said he wanted to start a family with Jennifer Lopez When Affleck and Lopez met on the set of Gigli , she was still married to her second husband, Cris Judd. Affleck said that as a result, he had no intention of pursuing her romantically .
When he did develop feelings for her, he said he knew very quickly that he wanted to have children with her. She was the first person to make him feel this way. “This is something I would do if Jen was a teacher and I was working construction in Boston,” he told Vanity Fair .
“Jen and I want to get married for the reason everyone else does: we fell in love. I’m in love; I want to have a family; and she’s the only person I’ve ever met who made me entertain the thought of doing that. You know within 10 minutes of meeting Jen that she’ll be a good mother.
” Affleck said that in some ways, Lopez reminded him of his own mother. “Though the heavens fall, she’ll be a good mother,” he said. “My father said the same thing about my mother, who was a world-class-Olympian mother.
” Jennifer Lopez spoke about bringing her children together with Ben Affleck’s Whi.
