Jennifer Lopez let fans in on how Ben Affleck proposed to her, which was decidedly “nothing fancy at all.”
On Friday, JLo revealed that she was engaged to Affleck after 18 years they had called off their pervious engagement back in January 2004. In a new edition of her On the JLo newsletter, Lopez went into details about how the proposal happened and their “second chance at true love.”
“Did you ever imagine your biggest dream could come true?” she began the newsletter. “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed. I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again, I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘is that a yes?’ I said YES of course that’s a YES.”
She continued, “I was smiling so big and tears were coming down my face, feeling so incredibly happy and whole. It was nothing fancy at all, but it was the most romantic thing I could’ve ever imagined…just a quiet Saturday night at home, two people promising to always be there for each other.”
“Two very lucky people. Who got a second chance at true love,” concluded Lopez.
Lopez referenced that her green engagement ring which happens to be her lucky colour, “Green has always been my lucky color and now, for sure, it always will be.” Lopez included photos from her camera roll, including a close-up of the jewelry.
Photo credit: J-Lo Newsletter
“It’s a beautiful outcome that this has happened in this way at this time in our lives where we can really appreciate and celebrate each other and respect each other,” she told PEOPLE. “We always did, but we have even more of an appreciation because we know that life can take you in different directions.”
“We have been in the game in the public eye long enough to know who we are as people and what really matters and what doesn’t matter. We have kids and we respect each other. … We really live our lives in a way we can be proud of and our kids can be proud of you,” she added. “We’re just operating from a place of love and respect for everyone in our lives and that is very important to us. We know what the truth is [and] we hold it sacred.”
