Jennifer Lopez experienced her first real heartbreak when the Academy Award winning actor and star of Gone Girl, Ben Affleck called off their very public engagement in January, 2004. The pain, tears and frustration only intensified when she realized that not only was the love affair over but so was the fairy tale family dream she had held onto throughout the intense media scrutiny that dubbed the couple ‘Bennifer.’ She hated that name. Scroll down for video Supercouple: ‘It felt like my heart had been torn out of my chest,’ the singer/actress confesses in her first memoir, True Love
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Supercouple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck met in 2002 when they starred in the box office bomb Gigli
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Months of planning had gone into her vision of a fairy tale wedding and she longed for kids with the film star
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She hated being dubbed 'Bennifer'
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Three days after they split Marc Anthony came back in her live to 'save' her
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Therapy helped her discover she suffers from low self-esteem.
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