Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck acting like ‘teenagers’ during Paris honeymoon
Newlyweds Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been canoodling around France, with a two-hour make-out session in an early-morning PDA.
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Bennifer 2.0 started their marriage by bringing back the teen energy during their Paris honeymoon.
The Hollywood stars arrived in Paris on Thursday with their blended family and have been piling on thick doses of PDA.
They were photographed canoodling for more than two hours in a Paris park early Friday morning local time.
“They were like two teens on a park bench -- very loving, very attentive,” an insider told People Magazine. “There weren’t a lot of people that time of the morning and they weren’t distracted. It was just them.”
The night prior, they dined with Ben Affleck’s 16-year-old daughter, Violet, and Jennifer Lopez’s 14-year-old twins, Max and Emme, at the Le Matignon restaurant near the Champs-Élysées.
They again surprised Parisians with their unfiltered affection, with photos showing Lopez, 52, pulling Affleck, 49, in and wrapping his head in her arms for the pash.
“They just showed up,” an eyewitness added to the outlet.
It came after Lopez showed her honeymoon mood by posting a cute throwback video on Instagram amid claims she “rushed” into marrying Affleck.
Captioned “Monday Mood”, the loved-up star shared footage of herself dancing wildly and shaking her booty at a concert.
The post came after her shock wedding to Ben Affleck and clearly indicates that Lopez is overjoyed to have finally tied the knot with the actor after 17 years apart.
The pair dated and became engaged in the early 2000s before breaking up.
The newlyweds ate pizza and drank Diet Coke — Lopez is teetotal and Affleck is a recovering alcoholic — on a private jet back to LA after getting hitched, the New York Post reports.
While Lopez posted on her OnTheJLo newsletter that they were joined by their kids at the nuptials at a drive-through wedding chapel, the New York Post reports that the only ones in attendance were Lopez’s child, Emme, 14, and Affleck’s Sera, 13.
The superstar couple have five children between them. Emme has a twin brother, Max, and Affleck also shares Violet, 16, and Sam, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
“Ben did tell (Garner) about the wedding, but I’m told that it was only Friday at the earliest. It was very, very minimally planned in advance and was largely spur of the moment. Violet stayed home because she’s extremely loyal to her mom,” one source told The Post.
“[Lopez] has been ready to get married since the night that Ben proposed. She wanted to lock this down and remove any chance for cold feet ASAP!”
Writing in her newsletter hours after she tied the knot, an ecstatic Lopez revealed the pair had tied the knot.
“We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” Lopez, 52, wrote.
“Exactly what we wanted. Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line for a license with four other couples, all making the same journey to the wedding capital of the world.
“Behind us two men held hands and held each other. In front of us, a young couple who made the three hour drive from Victorville on their daughter’s second birthday — all of us wanting the same thing — for the world to recognise us as partners and to declare our love to the world through the ancient and nearly universal symbol of marriage.”
The singer-actor said they “barely made it” to The Little White Wedding Chapel before midnight, with the venue staying open after hours for the occasion.
She shared photos in a pink Cadillac and explained they did not want an Elvis impersonator to host the nuptials.
“If we wanted Elvis himself to show, that cost extra and he was in bed,” she joked.
She revealed she used the break room to change into her wedding gown while Affleck used the men’s rest room to change.
“So with the best witnesses you could ever imagine, a dress from an old movie and a jacket from Ben’s closet, we read our own vows in the little chapel and gave one another the rings we’ll wear for the rest of our lives,” she said.
“They even had Bluetooth for a (short) march down the aisle. But in the end it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined. One we dreamed of long ago and one made real (in the eyes of the state, Las Vegas, a pink convertible and one another) at very, very long last.”
The Jenny from the Block singer added: “When love is real, the only thing that matters in marriage is one another and the promise we make to love, care, understand, be patient, loving and good to one another. We had that. And so much more. Best night of our lives.”
She singer then paid tribute to her expanded blended family.
“We are so grateful to have that in abundance, a new wonderful family of five amazing children and a life that we have never had more reason to look forward to,” she said.
“Stick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive through in Las Vegas at 12:30 in the morning in the tunnel of love drive through, with your kids and the one you’ll spend forever with. Love is a great thing, maybe the best of things — and worth waiting for.”
She concluded the newsletter, “Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck.”
The couple wed on Saturday, according to a marriage license they filed in Clark County, Nevada, that was seen by AFP.
It lists the parties to the nuptials as Affleck, Benjamin Geza and Lopez, Jennifer and gives the latter’s “new name” as Affleck, Jennifer.
Sources at TMZ also confirmed the Hollywood A-listers marriage.
Affleck, 49, and Lopez, 52, announced their engagement in April.
Lopez posted a video of herself appearing emotional and admiring a green ring in her newsletter, “On The JLo.”
US media reported that the ring was an emerald-cut pale green diamond.
The pair first met on the set of the widely panned movie Gigli in 2002.
They became a media sensation as they dated but postponed their planned 2003 nuptials, then announced their relationship was over in early 2004.
“Bennifer” – the couple’s public nickname from their first highly publicised relationship – set the internet alight last year when photos of them together again began circulating.
This is the fourth marriage for Lopez and the second for Affleck.
Lopez discussed her renewed relationship with Affleck in an interview with People in February.
“It’s a beautiful love story that we got a second chance,” she said.
Lopez was previously married to actor Ojani Noa, dancer Cris Judd and singer Marc Anthony, with whom she shares 14-year-old twins Max and Emme.
Affleck was married to actress Jennifer Garner and they are the parents of Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10.
Gossip outlet TMZ said the couple have been “seemingly inseparable” since they got back together, shopping together for a house and sometimes bringing their kids along.
TMZ said that last month Lopez’s car was seen outside a huge mansion in Beverly Hills, with several moving trucks outside it and also at each of their current homes.
Of the wedding, TMZ put it this way: “They did it like a couple of kids looking to elope, saying “I do” out in the desert.”
Additional reporting by AFP
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