# J-Lo & Ben Affleck
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-ben-affleck/134713
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 31, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-ben-affleck/134713 "2002-10-31T15:24:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2002, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-ben-affleck/134713/21 "2002-11-02T07:25:21Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Equipoise \*
> \*\*She seems like a really nice person \*\*
I don’t see this at all. I think she seems like a horribly shallow and self-centered person who will do anything to get what she wants. I also think her music sucks and she has no natural beauty at all. Have any of you seen her without makeup or remember what she looked like as a fly-girl? Hideous. I feel sorry for Affleck, she’s gonna break that poor guy’s heart. Having said all that though, I wouldn’t wish a disfiguiring car accident on anyone.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2002, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-ben-affleck/134713/22 "2002-11-02T09:13:08Z")
I’m going to misquote Tina Fey here. On the Weekend Update not too long ago, she said something like, "J. Lo recently bought a $50,000 car to match a pair of sunglasses she’d bought. What this means in the long run is that we are in for one _hilarious_ ‘Behind the Music.’ "
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-ben-affleck/134713/23 "2002-11-03T00:09:52Z")
On the one hand you have to feel sorry for Chris Judd. It’s got to hurt to see on the cover of the National Enquirer that your wife is involved in a scandalous love triangle and you’re not even part of it. But once he got through the pain, Judd emerged from the divorce with five things:
1 - Wisdom
2 - Experience
3 - Twenty million dollars
4 - Jaime Pressley
5 - The priceless gift of no longer being married to Jennifer Lopez
Moving on, let us picture the scene at the substance abuse clinic where Ben Affleck spend last summer:
“Mr Affleck, we’ve purged your body of the alcohol, but now we want to discuss your mental state. As you may have heard, it’s common for many people with a drinking problem to hit rock bottom before they seek treatment. And that’s what we feel happened with you.”
“Doc, the last few months are all a blur. What did I do? Hurt my family and friends? Destroy my career? Break the law?”
“No, Ben, I’m afraid when you hit rock bottom, it was worse than that.”
“Dear God, I didn’t kill someone did I?”
“No, Ben, you didn’t hurt anyone else, but I’m afraid there’s no easy way to say this. Ben, you’re dating Jennifer Lopez.”
“NOOOOOOOOO!!!”
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### Author:  [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-ben-affleck/134713/24 "2002-11-03T02:00:45Z")
I agree with **Cisco**.
Re the P.Diddy/B.Affleck feud, in response to some disparaging remark of the Didster’s, Affleck was quoted in the _Sun_ as saying “He should stick to what he’s good at. What is that, by the way?”
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-ben-affleck/134713/25 "2002-11-03T12:29:31Z")
I hate when people lose their dignity over other people. Barbra Streisand lost hers when she gushed about Andre Agassi: “He’s mature beyond his linear years. He plays like a Zen master.”
Oh dear.
I likewise cringed when Affleck took out a full-page ad in some newspaper gushing about how lovely and gracious Jennifer Lopez was, just weeks after she married another guy.
He’s whooped on her, no doubt. She’s now sporting a big diamond on her ring finger and they are caught making out and squeezing each other’s asses in public all the time. I don’t think it’s newsworthy, I don’t think it’s romantic. I think it’s embarrassing.
And if I were Ben’s mother, or friend, I’d be worried, too. Lopez’s track record sucks.
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