Jennifer Lopez: Postdivorce from Ben Affleck, J. Lo should be a rich diva already.
SlateIn her deeply maligned docuseries about her utterly incomprehensible movie based on her mediocre new album This Is Me … Now, there’s a scene where Jennifer Lopez studies herself in the mirror after a workout. From her time as a Fly Girl to the present, with the recent news of her second breakup with Dunkin’ acolyte Ben Affleck, Lopez has been trying to convince us that she’s the same person she was as a teenager, before she got famous enough to have been in possession of a litany of boulder-sized engagement rings. Before their subsequent divorce was even finalized two years later, she had started dating Ben Affleck, their very public relationship coinciding with the release of 2002’s This Is Me … Then, Lopez’s greatest foray into cosplaying as a normal person. This Is Me … Then and its lead single, “Jenny From the Block,” was Lopez’s most entrenched effort to seem like a normie.