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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are able to get married!

The pair — who rekindled their romance final 12 months — is engaged, a rep for Lopez confirms to PEOPLE. Lopez shared the information in her On the JLo e-newsletter days after she was photographed sporting what gave the impression to be an engagement ring earlier this week.

She revealed the thrilling replace in a Friday night e-mail to her inside circle. The message to followers included a clip of Lopez admiring an enormous, inexperienced diamond on her ring finger, a picture of which was additionally shared by her sister on social media.

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Lopez teased the “main announcement” with a video on Twitter that very same evening. “So I’ve a extremely thrilling and particular story to share…” Lopez informed her followers. She additionally added a diamond ring emoji to her Twitter deal with.

Affleck most just lately confirmed assist for his wife-to-be, cheering her on along with his son Samuel and her daughter Emme as Lopez accepted the Icon Award on the iHeartRadio Music Awards in March.

Lopez just lately informed PEOPLE what makes their connection totally different now in comparison with 18 years in the past, saying, “We’re older now, we’re smarter, we now have extra expertise, we’re at totally different locations in our lives, we now have youngsters now, and we now have to be very acutely aware of these issues.”

The Marry Me actress, 52, shares 14-year-old twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony, and Affleck, 49, shares three youngsters with ex-wife Jennifer Garner: Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10.

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“It is a good looking end result that this has occurred on this method presently in our lives the place we are able to actually recognize and have a good time one another and respect one another,” Lopez informed PEOPLE. “We all the time did, however we now have much more of an appreciation as a result of we all know that life can take you in numerous instructions.”

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She added, “We’ve got been within the sport within the public eye lengthy sufficient to know who we’re as folks and what actually issues and what does not matter. We’ve got youngsters and we respect one another. … We actually dwell our lives in a method we could be happy with and our children could be happy with you. We’re simply working from a spot of affection and respect for everybody in our lives and that is essential to us. We all know what the reality is [and] we maintain it sacred.”

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Lopez and Affleck beforehand started courting in July 2002 and bought engaged that November earlier than suspending their September 2003 marriage ceremony simply days earlier than the date. They finally referred to as off their engagement in January 2004.

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Affleck informed WSJ. Journal in December about feeling “fortunate” to have been given second possibilities, each in his work and private life.

“I’ve had second possibilities in my profession. I’ve had second possibilities as a human being. Life is tough, and we’re all the time failing and hopefully studying from these failures,” he mentioned. “The one factor you really want to avail your self of the alternatives offered from that progress is the second likelihood. I’ve undoubtedly tried to make the most of that. I have never all the time been profitable, however in instances wherein I’ve, they’ve turned out to be the defining features of my life.”