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Jennifer Lopez has opened up about her dating life since the break-up with her ex-husband Ben Affleck.
The 'Jenny From The Block' singer, 56, was first in a relationship with Ben, 53, from mid-2002 until early 2004 when they broke off their engagement.
The couple went their separate ways for two decades, with Ben marrying Jennifer Garner and having three children together, while JLo married Marc Anthony and welcomed twins together.
However, Bennifer fans were delighted when the pair decided to get back together almost 20 years later when they were both single once again, rekindling their romance in early 2021.
They announced their second engagement and then got married in July 2022 in Las Vegas, however, their union was set to be short-lived.
Jennifer filed for divorce on August 20, 2024, citing April 26, 2024, as the date that they separated, with their divorce being finalized in January 2025.
The singer has now opened up about life post-Bennifer, and how she feels about dating now that she's single again.
In an upcoming interview with Juju Chang on Nightline, Jennifer admitted she was in no rush to meet someone new after their split.
When asked whether she is "dating up a storm", Jennifer responded: "No! No I'm not! God forbid, I don’t want to ruin anything!
"It’s so nice right now! I’m so happy! It’s the best. I just feel really good right now.
"And that was a scary thing for me when I was younger. I didn’t know if I could do that. I was always really afraid to be alone."
She also addressed how she dealt with the break-up, including cancelling her 'This is Me...Live' summer tour.
"I had to stop everything and I took a year off," she explained. "I canceled tours and just decided to be home and sit in what had happened without running away from it through work, through another person, through anything. Just sit."
The host reminded her that she'd said her life "exploded" that year, with JLo admitting: "It did. It did feel that way. I needed to be home with my kids and that was the priority at that time.
"I was just at a point where I was like, what is going on with you? Because I couldn't blame anybody else because I don't think that's where the lesson is. I really wanted to figure myself out."
Jennifer revealed that the period of healing worked wonders, adding: "I'm in my happy era! For the first time in my life, I feel I'm free, I'm on my own. It feels really good.
"I didn’t really know what that felt like since I was in my early 20s and even before that, I always had boyfriends. There was always someone in my life, and so many other things that I felt like were out of my control.
"I’ve gotten to the point where I really trust myself and appreciate myself a little bit more, instead of being so hard on myself all the time and always trying to prove myself."
