Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck engaged

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Jennifer Lopez has announced her engagement to actor Ben Affleck 19 years after the couple first called off their wedding.

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The singer and actor, 52, shared the news with fans via her OnTheJLo newsletter.

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In the email, she posted a video of herself admiring a large green-stoned engagement ring on her finger.

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The clip then pans up to her face, and shows her appearing to wipe away tears, before she says: You’re perfect.

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Lopez and Affleck started dating in July 2002, and announced their engagement in November that year.

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The couple were to be married the following September but postponed the wedding days before the ceremony.

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In January 2004, they called the engagement off and separated.

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“Ben and I split up at the moment when I thought we were committing to each other forever,

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it was my first real heartbreak, it felt like my heart had been torn out of my chest,” Lopez wrote in Page Six in 2014.

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