MY JLO AND BEN (AND A-ROD) PREDICTIONS

It seems that everyone is ragging on Jennifer Lopez these days. Yes, she has cancelled her tour, and had less-than-successful career offerings in the past few months, but I don’t know if she is exactly the correct one to blame in the Bennifer saga. Ben Affleck has always seemed kind of hard-to-deal-with to me and a bit gross, to boot, with his smoking and drinking and little teeth.

There definitely does seem to be trouble in their paradise. But I have a bold prediction for you guys: I think that Jennifer just may get back together with her former fiancé, Alex Rodriguez. Let me explain.

First of all, that girl can never be single. She’s always had one boyfriend or husband or another since she first burst on the scene waaaay back in the day. (She’s been married four times with another four serious long-term beaus.) So even though I believe that somehow Ben Affleck is the love of her life, if they do break-up, she’ll feel the need to get with another guy right away, and, at fifty-five-years-old next month, she has to work fast.

I have to admit that I was semi-crushed when JLo and ARod split up. It brought me back to Sonny and Cher’s break-up, and made me feel bad all over again. I’m actually not kidding—I thought that J-Rod, (as they were referred to,) was a perfect duo. He had always had a crush on her and she’s always…well, let’s leave it at that they’ve both always loved her!

I hate to even know this myself, but Mr. X reads celebrity gossip, (only on sites that also feature politics, medical info, and real news, though,) and he’s been telling me for a while that Ben and Jen will probably break-up soon. I do feel that Ben is most likely the love of her life, and I know that no one can help whom they love, but I don’t know how she could be with him to begin with.

Here are some reasons I say that:

~ JLo is totally into working-out and having the strongest, best-looking body around, so I’ve been shocked that she chose to be with someone who doesn’t have those same interests. Whereas she and ARod loved going to the gym together and were totally aligned in their health pursuits, Ben does not look like he works-out, at all! He has that kind of soft, pudgy, dad bod. I don’t understand how she could go from sleeping with ARod’s chiseled body to sleeping with Ben’s. It’s pretty hard to understand.

~ And how can she be with someone who’s always smoking?! Ugh. I have no idea how she kisses someone with cigarette breath. I would throw-up if I had to do that. I recently asked a friend who has a husband who also smokes how she could make-out with him and she said that she can’t. She told me she hasn’t kissed him for years, plus she makes him try to get rid of the smell and taste as much as he can before he even comes to bed.

~ Okay, I’m making myself sick with all that bad breath talk! But he bites his nails, too!!! Yuck.

~ And, I almost forgot—Ben’s also an alcoholic!

What I don’t like about the whole thing is that when Jennifer and Alex broke up, she made it seem like it was just because of stuff between the two of them. There was a rumor that Alex had “slid into the DMs” of some reality show woman, but nothing was ever said about it in that time period after the split, so I doubt that was it. And they own(ed) several entities together, so that was a lot of drama to get through, even though it was never out in the public.

But from all my detective work on the subject, it appears that Ben had emailed Jen out of the blue at the beginning of that year, and then all of a sudden, she and Alex broke-up, and she was back with Ben. So that must’ve been in the works between the two of them before she left Alex.

By the way—for those of you who don’t know, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were engaged over two decades ago before breaking it off partly due to “excessive media attention.” (I remember seeing them on TV doing an interview from their backyard, and there was a boat in the background carrying people grabbing surreptitious pix of them.)

So I’m thinking that all this drama with Ben 2.0—from his unpleasantness at the Grammys last year, to them always being photographed looking miserable, to him always yelling at her, to them supposedly living separately now—is making her realize how good she had it with Alex. You always saw them smiling and laughing, and their four kids (two of hers and two of his from previous marriages) looking so happy to be with one another, and she and Alex were always at the gym together, and they had made it through the difficulty of being together 24/7 during the pandemic. Perhaps harking back to all that will lead to the realization that ARod is who she really should be with, if he will even still have her, which I feel that he would. He hasn’t gotten serious with anyone in these last few years, and he just always has some nothing-looking blonde girlfriend or another with him, so I don’t think he’s serious with anyone.

He may make Jennifer grovel a bit, which I wouldn’t blame him for, but I can definitely see them back together. And one thing that I always picture is when she received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, and she was thanking people including her kids, and then she thanked Alex who was standing in the crowd just beaming for her, and she kind of giggled as she said his name. I hope she notices that that’s the kind of look she should have on her face when she talks about someone, not the scowling that she and Ben are always photographed doing. (During that acceptance speech, she addressed Alex in the audience, saying,“Alex. You’re like my twin soul. We’re like mirror images of each other. You know, my life is sweeter and better with you in it because you make me realize that every day, the sky is not the limit, the universe is infinite, and so is what we can accomplish together with love and trust and understanding. There’s so much more to do, to experience, and there is no one I’d rather do it with. You’re my macho baby, and I love you.”)

So, to sum-up, not only do I hope that Jennifer and Alex get back together, but I predict that they will. And remember—you read it here first!

Addendum: Just when I was about to publish this, I had a glimpse in my mind of having written some of these thoughts before. And then I found that I had! I wrote an article about them when Bennifer first got back together in 2021. So here’s the link to my more in-depth look at some of it, right as it was happening back then!: itsnotaboutme.tv/news/gossipkarens-thoughts-my-issues-with-jennifer-lopezs-new-old-relationship.