Jennifer Lopez accepted the Icon Award during the iHeartRadio Music Awards last night, and once-and-again-beau Ben Affleck, along with two of their respective kids, couldn’t have been prouder. Lopez’s daughter, Esme, 14, and Affleck’s son, Samuel, 10, were tapped by the couple to accompany them to the award show. It was the first time the pair have appeared publicly as a blended family, and the universe ate it up.
First, there was the sincerity of Lopez’s acceptance speech. “I appreciate this so much, so very, very much…I wish I could tell you that awards were the most important to me, but that’s not true. And don’t think that I don’t appreciate the shiny, sparkly things, because I do! I cannot lie, everybody knows that I do. But this isn’t why I do this. It’s not what matters most to me. I really do it for you guys.” Y’all. She loves us.
And we love her. And maybe secretly, we love that Bennifer, Part I is back (though no one hated Bennifer, Part 2). Because we’re Millenial, and we love nostalgia and vintage anything. Based on the multiple interruptions of her speech by the crowd’s cheers, it appears that those in audience felt the same way.
Though it might have been their first official industry outing together, the duo’s respective children are no strangers. They hit the Magic Kingdom together on a family vacation, and they spent Christmas together as well. Affleck’s daughters not in attendance at the awards show with ex-wife Jennifer Garner are Violet, 16, and Seraphina, 12. Lopez’s son—Emme’s twin brother, Max—was also not in attendance.
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But back to us. Lopez really, really loves her fans, saying in her acceptance speech “That’s a gift that you give me and I just want to say thank you for that,” she said. “Thank you to everyone who comes to a show, streams a song, sees a movie, follows me. You guys are the ones who give me the opportunity every day to live a life I couldn’t even imagine would come true when I was a little girl growing up in the Bronx.”
Her gratitude, however, doesn’t stop with her fans. In a recent interview with People, she said of her rekindled romance with Affleck “I feel so lucky and happy and proud to be with him,” she said. “It’s a beautiful love story that we got a second chance.”
According to an interview with ET, the 17 year lapse in the original Bennifer has only made the lovebirds more supportive of one another. They report that they actively talk about “being committed to having a healthy, everlasting relationship…It just turned out to be something really magical.”
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