Jennifer Lopez has spoken candidly about marriage and divorce for the first time in quite a while, reflecting on the end of her relationship with her third husband, Marc Anthony.
Over the years, the star’s romantic life has repeatedly played out in the public eye, with several well-known relationships ultimately coming to an end.
She first married actor Ojani Noa in 1997, and the two divorced the following year.
Lopez then married dancer and choreographer Cris Judd in 2001, before their marriage ended in divorce in 2003.
In 2004, she married singer Marc Anthony. They remained together for a decade, finalising their divorce in 2014.
The former couple share two children.
Later, Lopez and Ben Affleck rekindled their early-2000s romance, marrying in 2022 before divorcing in 2025.
When Lopez filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, she listed the reason for the split as:
‘irreconcilable differences’
Affleck largely stayed quiet publicly about the breakdown of the marriage, though in March of last year he described the divorce as:
‘embarrassing’
Lopez, meanwhile, has continued moving forward. Last year, during a conversation with Howard Stern, she said she didn’t feel truly loved in some of her past relationships.
However, when speaking about Anthony, she suggested the experience felt different from the rest.
On March 6, while on stage during her Up All Night Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, the 56-year-old looked back on the period after her split from Anthony, calling it:
‘actually a really tough time.’
“I was really about to give up on it all,” Lopez, said. “I mean, I was a single mom with two 3-year-old twins.”
She also told the audience she once received guidance from late author Louise Hay, recalling:
“She said to me, ‘Jennifer, you’re a dancer, right?’
“I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And she said, ‘When you’re learning a dance and you get the steps wrong, what do you do?’ I said, ‘I just keep going until I get the steps right.’ And she said, ‘That’s right Jennifer. Always keep dancing.’ ”
Lopez went on to offer an encouraging message to those watching, saying she hopes:
‘the same for each and every one of you’
and that everyone can keep pushing through whatever challenges come their way.
In her earlier Stern interview, Lopez said she doesn’t believe she’s:
‘not lovable’
and instead felt some partners weren’t:
‘capable’
of giving the kind of love she needed.
She said: “What I learned, it’s not that I’m not loveable, it’s that they’re not capable… they don’t have it in them.
“They need to appreciate the little person inside of them… and they gave me what they had, they gave me all of it, every time.”