After reuniting in 2021, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez found themselves as the subject of frequent media attention. This didn’t rival the constant attention they received when they first dated in the early 2000s. Affleck said that while they both had been famous before they started dating, neither could have prepared for the intensity of the attention on them.
He shared how it began to feel like the worst of both worlds. Ben Affleck said his relationship with Jennifer Lopez brought a terrible kind of fame When Affleck and Lopez began dating, they were at the center of a tabloid frenzy. During this time, Affleck made a series of poorly reviewed movies , including Gigli , the film that introduced him to Lopez.
He started to feel as though people cared about his relationship but not his work as an actor. “I remember feeling like it was the worst of both worlds,” he told Matt Damon in an interview for Entertainment Weekly . “I always viewed it that the tax you paid to get the chance to do this work was to sacrifice your private life, and people were going to have license to make sport of you to some degree.
” He knew this was a possibility, but celebrity journalism was not what it had been when he was younger. “Jennifer and I happened to be together at a time where the whole industry of celebrity journalism, if you want to call it that, sort of exploded,” he said. “But I thought, ‘S***, this is really not how I had hoped to go, where I’m going to be, what? Fam.
