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Jennifer Lopez Has A Pretty Good Reason Why She Took Ben Affleck’s Last Name After Marrying Him
We're talking about her legal last name here — don't worry, you can still call her J.Lo if you want to.

Jennifer Lopez Has A Pretty Good Reason Why She Took Ben Affleck’s Last Name After Marrying Him

In case you’ve been living under a dang rock, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married earlier this year.

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“We’re husband and wife,” Jennifer said. “I’m proud of that. … It feels like it’s a power move, you know what I mean?”

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Jennifer also asserted that she is “very much in control of my own life and destiny and feel empowered as a woman and as a person” — and she acknowledged that taking your husband’s last name isn’t something that people do as often anymore.

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“I can understand that people have their feelings about it, and that’s okay, too,” she said. “But if you want to know how I feel about it, I just feel like it’s romantic.”

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“It still carries tradition and romance to me.”

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Read the entire interview with Jennifer here.