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Jennifer Lopez Dazzles in 400 Carats of Diamonds for 57th Birthday
Jennifer Lopez is entering her next chapter feelin’ so good.
The two-time Grammy nominee turns 57 July 24. But she wasn’t waiting for tonight to get the festivities started. In fact, she kicked them off early with a "double birthday sister trip" to Europe with Lynda Lopez, who turned 55 June 14. And while Lopez’s love don’t cost a thing, the 400-carats-worth of diamonds she wore to a dinner party in Paris certainly weren't cheap.
But if you were to ask J.Lo, she'd surely say you don’t need a birthday to have a party. Right now, for instance, she’s celebrating just being single.
"Breakups are not a failure," she said in a June episode of Kareem Rahma’s SubwayTakes. "I honestly feel like it’s a launchpad into your next best self. We should have a party when we break up. People should say, ‘You broke up, congratulations.' Because, one, you made a decision. Two, it was probably the best thing for everybody."
And the singer has learned a thing or two from her spins around the block.
"If you’re the one who’s being heartbroken, you’re the winner," she continued. "Because if you go around your life and you’re breaking hearts…you’re the loser."
While Lopez acknowledges she’s "been on both sides," she feels like she’s grown the most when she's the one left drowning her sorrows.
"I just feel like the biggest growth spurts I’ve had emotionally, mentally, psychologically have always come from a heartbreak—and that’s not just in romantic relationships," she explained. "That’s in work heartbreaks—all of it."
Mainly because, "It’s the only time you dig," the Hustlers star added. "You’re like, 'What the f--k happened? How do I do this? Why do I keep doing this? Or why didn’t that happen? What could I have done better?' You change yourself completely."
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Actually, Lopez, who’s been divorced four times, wishes she dove into the single life earlier.
"I should’ve done it sooner," she admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in May of embracing her unattached status. "I’ve been doing it all wrong."
Lopez’s most recent marriage came to an end in 2024, when she and Ben Affleck split after two years as husband and wife.
"You get through it," she told CBS Sunday Morning last September while promoting Kiss of the Spider Woman—a movie she starred in and he produced—eight months after they finalized their divorce. “And honestly, I have to say, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
Because while she’d previously called the Oscar winner the love of her life, their breakup, "helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow, become more self-aware," she added. "I’m a different person now than I was last year, I think, a year and a half ago."
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Prior to Rodriguez, Lopez sparked romance rumors with Drake in late 2016—with speculation starting months after she and Casper Smart ended their five-year on-again, off-again relationship. And while she and the dancer had an 18-year age gap, they seemed unfazed by the difference.
"The truth is we don’t know what’s going to happen," Lopez told People about her relationship with Smart in 2013. "We’re loving this moment right now. We make each other happy."
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At the time, Lopez said Smart "helped me heal" from her and Marc Anthony's divorce. The singers wed in June 2004 and welcomed twins Max and Emme four years later. But in 2011, Lopez and Anthony announced their separation—finalizing their divorce in 2014. And while the breakup wasn’t easy, they’ve ultimately remained on good terms.
"When my marriage ended, it was not easy to find forgiveness," she told W Magazine in 2016. "It wasn’t the dream that I had hoped for, and it would have been easier to fan the flames of resentment, disappointment, and anger. But Marc is the father of my children and that’s never going away. So, I have to work to make things right. And that is, by far, the hardest work I do."
Now, Emme and Max—two of Anthony’s eight children—are 18. "Both of my kids got into all their colleges and they both got scholarships and they’re going where they want to go," Lopez raved on a June episode of SmartLess. "I was like, 'You did that s--t all by yourself. Like, you had very little help.'"
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Before her union with Anthony, Lopez was married to Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998 and Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003, also briefly dating Sean "Diddy" Combs in between.
But when it comes to those marriages, "Once was nine months and once was 11 months," she said in her 2019 It’s My Party Tour Diary series. "So, I don’t really count those."
Looking back, "I was very young the first two times I tried to get married," Lopez continued. "I’d say tried to get married."
Still, she knows why she called the wedding planner.
"It seems like in this life you’re always surrounded by people, you’re never lonely—but it’s very lonely," she added. "And so, you always want somebody with you—somebody. So I felt like if I got married, I felt like I would always have somebody. But that’s not how life works."
While the "Jenny From the Block" artist has suggested she won't tie the knot again, read on to look back at the rocks that she got.
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Husband No. 1: Ojani Noa
Jennifer Lopez married waiter-turned-restaurateur Ojani Noa in 1997 and the two divorced less than a year later.
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Engagement Ring No. 1
Noa proposed with what appears to be a pear-shaped diamond ring, worth an estimated six figures.
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Husband No. 2: Cris Judd
The multi-hyphenate and her former back-up dancer Cris Judd wed in 2001. The two split less than a year later and finalized a divorce in January 2003, while she was engaged to Ben Affleck.
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Engagement Ring No. 2
Judd popped the question with this emerald-cut diamond ring, estimated to be worth six figures.
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Fiancé No. 3: Ben Affleck
Kicking off a romance in 2002, Lopez and the actor filmed famous flop Gigli, the movie Jersey Girl and the singer's "Jenny From the Block" music video.
That November, Affleck proposed, with the two planning on having a wedding ceremony in Santa Barbara, California, on Sept. 14, 2003. Affleck called it off four days beforehand, citing "excessive media attention." In January 2004, the two publicly ended their engagement.
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Engagement Ring No. 3
Affleck gave his bride-to-be a 6.1-carat pink radiant cut diamond Harry Winston ring, estimated to be worth between $1.2 and $2.5 million.
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Husband No. 3: Marc Anthony
Lopez and fellow singer Marc Anthony, who share twins Max and Emme, wed in 2004 and announced their split in 2011. Anthony filed for divorce a year later and it was finalized in 2014.
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Engagement Ring No. 4
Anthony proposed to Lopez with an 8.5-carat blue diamond Harry Winston engagement ring, estimated to be worth $4 million.
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Fiancé No. 5: Alex Rodriguez
Having reconnected in 2017, former New York Yankees standout Alex Rodriguez swung for the fences, getting down on bended knee on the beach during their March 2019 trip to the Bahamas.
In April 2021, J.Lo and A-Rod called off their engagement.
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Engagement Ring No. 5
The 15-carat emerald-cut diamond engagement ring Rodriguez chose is estimated to be worth between $1 million and $5 million.
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Husband No. 4: Ben Affleck
The two rekindled their romance in spring of 2021. On April 8, 2022, she revealed in her On the JLo newsletter that they were engaged. But after a 2022 Las Vegas elopement—followed by fairytale vows in Georgia months later—she filed to end their nearly two-year union in August 2024. They settled their divorce the following January.
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Engagement Ring No. 6
For the second go-round, Affleck went for a hue that Lopez had dubbed lucky after stealing the show at the 2000 Grammys in her iconic Verace gown. The green cushion-cut diamond was set with two white diamond side stones.
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