{"id":342100,"date":"2026-05-28T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=342100"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:14:35","slug":"jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-being-happily-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-being-happily-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Being Happily Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Lopez<\/strong> doesn\u2019t need a person to make her glad.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Office Romance<\/em> star, 56, said she\u2019s happily single and in no rush to get right into a latest relationship following her divorce from <strong>Ben Affleck<\/strong> in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re single at once,\u201d comedian <strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hod-28wQL2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> to the actress, who was a guest on the Wednesday, May 27, episode of <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lopez quipped in response, \u201cI&#8217;m. I must have done it sooner! I\u2019ve been doing all of it improper. Trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">What Jennifer Lopez Has Said About Love and Romance<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPresley Ann\/Getty Images Jennifer Lopez has had love on the brain through the years \u2014 no matter her relationship or marital status. During a 2024 appearance on Carrie &#038; Tommy\u2019s Australian radio show, Lopez called herself \u201cmore of a love addict or a workaholic than every little thing else.\u201d Before she was a household name, Lopez\u2019s first [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kimmel, 58, then floated the concept that Lopez find love on reality television, asking, \u201cWould you think about becoming the following Bachelorette here on ABC?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Are you crazy?\u201d Lopez emphatically responded. \u201cI\u2019m not doing anything to destroy how I feel at once. It\u2019s implausible. I find it irresistible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems hard for you to satisfy people otherwise,\u201d Kimmel reasoned. Nonetheless, Lopez replied, \u201cI\u2019ll meet anyone somewhere someday, in the event that they\u2019re adequate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel went on, \u201cI believe it could be great if we put you in a house with 25 weirdos. Wouldn\u2019t it&#8217;s funny even just as a prank that they haven\u2019t met the Bachelorette yet, and then you definately walk out they usually all s*** their pants concurrently?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t. I could never. I can\u2019t do it,\u201d Lopez responded, adding, \u201cI\u2019m good at once. I\u2019m glad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez finalized her divorce from longtime love Affleck, 53, in January 2025. She initially filed for divorce in August 2024, two years after they tied the knot.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez and Affleck were initially engaged within the early 2000s after meeting on the set of the movie <em>Gigli<\/em>. They were on account of get married in September 2003 but called off the marriage days before it was set to happen. They later split in January 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The previous couple reconnected in 2021 and got engaged for a second time in April 2022. They tied the knot in Las Vegas in July that yr and held a second wedding ceremony in Georiga the next month.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Lopez reflected on pushing the reset button following her fourth divorce. (She was previously married to <strong>Ojani Noa<\/strong> from 1997 to 1998, <strong>Criss Judd<\/strong> from 2001 to 2003 and <strong>Marc Anthony<\/strong> from 2004 to 2014.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You will have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI took a yr off,\u201d Lopez said during an appearance on <em>Good Morning America<\/em>, explaining that she needed to \u201cstop every little thing\u201d after splitting from Affleck. \u201cI canceled tours. I made a decision to simply be home and sit in what had happened without running away from it through work, through one other person, through anything. Just sit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be just at some extent where I used to be like, \u2018What is happening with you?\u2019\u201d she continued. \u201cI couldn\u2019t blame anybody else because I don\u2019t think that\u2019s where the lesson is. And so, I actually needed to figure myself out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez added, \u201cI feel like for the primary time in my life, I\u2019m free. I\u2019m alone. It feels really good. I didn\u2019t really know what that felt like since I used to be in my early 20s, and even before that I all the time had a boyfriend. There was all the time someone in my life and so many other things that I felt were out of my control. I\u2019ve gotten to the purpose where I actually trust myself and appreciate myself a bit bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lopez doesn\u2019t need a person to make her glad. The Office Romance star, 56, said she\u2019s happily single and in no rush to get right into a latest relationship following her divorce from Ben Affleck in 2025. \u201cYou\u2019re single at once,\u201d comedian Jimmy Kimmel noted to the actress, who was a guest on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[38560,2629,1943,553,5223],"class_list":["post-342100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-happily","tag-jennifer","tag-lopez","tag-opens","tag-single"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342103,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342100\/revisions\/342103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}