Jennifer Lopez's exes are looking hunkier than ever amid her divorce from Ben Affleck
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Jennifer Lopez's exes are looking hunkier than ever, as the pop star reenters the single life amid her divorce from Ben Affleck.
'Bennifer' had a whirlwind romance in the early 2000s, only to split in 2004 just three days before they were supposed to get married.
They sensationally reunited in 2021 and tied the knot in 2022 - but this year, their union crumbled into a months-long separation that culminated in Jennifer filing for divorce on their second wedding anniversary this Tuesday.
She is now on course to leave four ex-husbands in her wake, once again casting the glare of the spotlight on her rollercoaster love life.
Now DailyMail.com is checking in on some of the steamiest men from her past - who look even better today than they did when they first caught her eye.
Jennifer Lopez's exes are looking hunkier than ever, as the pop star reenters the single life amid her divorce from Ben Affleck; pictured last month
'Bennifer' were dogged by months of rumors that the marriage was on the verge of collapse, culminating in Jennifer filing for divorce on their second anniversary Tuesday; pictured 2022
Ojani Noa
Ojani Noa, 50, her first husband, is even more of a feast for the eyes now than he was during their brief marriage in the 1990s.
He currently works as a personal trainer and frequently posts sizzling pictures to his Instagram page - many of them without his shirt on.
In one heart-stopping recent post, the musclebound Adonis showed off his bare torso and also had his trousers pulled tantalizingly low.
'How are my people?' he teased in his caption in Spanish, adding: 'The most important factor for success is SELF-ESTEEM.'
Jennifer first caught sight of Ojani in 1996 when he was working as a waiter at a fashionable Miami restaurant owned by Gloria Estefan.
The encounter came seven years after he illegally immigrated to the United States from Cuba, clambering onto a 6ft long inflatable boat with six of his friends and traveling 90 miles over the sea from his homeland to Florida.
Jennifer, a rising actress, was drawn to the smolderingly manly Ojani, who proposed to her during the wrap party of her star-making 1997 movie Selena.
They married that year but were divorced by the following one, and she later had to go to court to stop him from publishing a tell-all book about her.
Ojani Noa, husband number one, is as even more of a feast for the eyes now than he was during their brief marriage in the 1990s; pictured on Instagram this month
When JLo finally married Ben in 2022, her ex Ojani Noa witheringly told DailyMail.com: 'I wish her and Ben the best, but I’m not convinced it will last'; pictured on his Instagram in May
Months before they split up, Jennifer confessed that she was worried her superior earning power would cause tension between them because of his ego; pictured 1997
Now 50, he works as a personal trainer and frequently posts sizzling pictures to his Instagram page - many of them without his shirt on
In one heart-stopping recent post, he showed off his bare torso and also had his trousers pulled tantalizingly low, telling fans: 'The most important factor for success is SELF-ESTEEM'
Months before they split up, Jennifer confessed that she was worried her superior earning power would cause tension between them because of his ego.
'I mean, even though he has lots of contacts, even though he's doing his own thing, opening a club and restaurant here, whatever business he gets in, he's not gonna make as much money as me. That's something he has to deal with and to live with, which is tough for someone like him,' she told Movieline.
'It's hard for me to find normal contemporaries and it's hard for men to deal with. The man I've married is Latin and they, more than any other type of man, are very macho.'
She added: 'If you asked him right now, he'd rather have me home washing dishes, with us living in a small apartment, with him making the money rather than me making millions of dollars a year, living in a house that I mostly pay for!'
After the marriage fell apart, she sued him to suppress his memoir and sent a cease-and-desist letter to prevent him from putting out a mockumentary called How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The JLo And Ojani Noa Story.
When JLo finally married Ben in 2022, Ojani witheringly told DailyMail.com: 'I wish her and Ben the best, but I’m not convinced it will last.'
He added: 'Jen loves being in love but she's been engaged six times. Ben is husband number four. I was husband number one and she told me I was the love of her life. When we lay in bed on our wedding night, she said we would be together for ever.'
Ojani then predicted: 'I think she's someone who will be married seven or eight times. I can't see her ever settling down with one person. She pushes herself to constantly go forward in her professional life, which is why she’s had a three-decade career, but she also moves on in her private life.’
At that point, Ojani had never married again, but on one occasion he had come close to going down the aisle with somebody else.
Jennifer first caught sight of Ojani in 1996 when he was working as a waiter at a fashionable Miami restaurant owned by Gloria Estefan; pictured 1997
Cris Judd
Husband number two was Cris Judd, 55, who has gone from being a lithe dancer in JLo's Love Don't Cost A Thing video to a silver fox today.
He has been happily married since 2009 and now works as a choreographer on projects like Fuller House, the Netflix sequel to the hit sitcom Full House.
In his sweet selfies with his wife Kelly, Cris still displays the irresistible sex appeal that captured JLo's attention on the set of their music video.
Jennifer first became involved with Cris shortly after her tempestuous, on-off relationship with Diddy finally came to an end.
She and Cris were married for just nine months in 2001 and 2002, with him groaning under the pressure of her stratospheric fame.
Husband number two was Cris Judd, 55, who has gone from being the lithe dancer in JLo's Love Don't Cost A Thing video to a silver fox today
JLo and Cris were married for just nine months in 2001 and 2002, and he was left groaning under the pressure of her stratospheric fame; pictured 2001
In his sweet selfies with his wife Kelly, Cris still displays the irresistible sex appeal that caught JLo's eye on the set of their music video; pictured February
He remarked later that their wedding 'was a circus. I think several people got arrested trying to climb up a mountain…trying to sneak in.'
The media frenzy around their nuptials was so intense that JLo and Cris 'rented the airspace' above their venue, he told Us Weekly in 2014.
'You know it's very tough. Your privacy is breached. You're no longer a normal person,' he said, while acknowledging: 'You kind of sign up for that, you know? You kind of have to take it and accept it and embrace it.'
He argued: 'Once you stop fighting it, it smooths itself over. If you try to keep that privacy, it drives you nuts and that's why people break.'
Cris kept the veil of privacy drawn over why he and JLo got divorced, saying cryptically: 'Unfortunately, it just didn't work out.'
Casper Smart
Jennifer enjoyed a long-term relationship with her much younger backup dancer Casper Smart from 2011 to 2016, with a brief split in 2014.
Casper, 37, who is 18 years younger than JLo, was often seen out and about with his girlfriend as they led a glamorous, globetrotting life together.
He made heads turn with his enviably sculpted dancer's body back then - but in recent years, he allowed his figure to slide a tad.
However in the past six months, he has leapt back onto the workout horse and regained his six pack, as seen in jaw-dropping pictures on his Instagram.
Just days before JLo filed for divorce from Ben, Casper posted before-and-after pictures of his fitness journey in the past half a year.
Just days before JLo filed for divorce from Ben, her ex Casper Smart posted before-and-after pictures of his fitness journey in the past half a year
Jennifer enjoyed a long-term relationship with her much younger backup dancer Casper Smart from 2011 to 2016, with a brief split in 2014; pictured 2015
In his new pictures, he is the image of youth and athletic vigor, looking practically no different to the way he did as JLo's dashing toyboy; pictured in Switzerland in July
In the after picture, he is the image of youth and athletic vigor, looking not a day older than he did as JLo's dashing toyboy.
Casper has shared fond reminiscences of touring the globe with JLo as one of her backup dancers while they were a couple.
'It was tiring, but very nice, to be able to, like, travel the entire world in six months, especially with someone you’re with, and you get to enjoy together,' he remembered in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
Ever since he and JLo broke up, he has spoken warmly about her in public, and placed the blame for their breakup squarely on himself.
He noted JLo is a mother of two - she shares her twins Max and Emme, 16, with her third ex-husband Marc Anthony - and said he lacked the maturity to be with her.
'I was very young and selfish,' he admitted to Univision. 'I thought I was ready for a relationship with a woman with kids and everything.'
In the years after their split, Casper's dating history has included Bre Tiesi, who has since become one of the six mothers of Nick Cannon's 12 children.
Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees star JLo dated from 2017 until 2021, was a sight to see in a recent Instagram post from his summer holiday in Italy.
He was accompanied by his girlfriend Jaclyn Cordeiro, a 44-year-old fitness influencer who bared her credentials in a skimpy bikini.
But it was A-Rod, 49, who was the showstopper, flaunting his bronzed and muscled physique as he sunned himself on the deck of a yacht.
Eight years after he retired from professional baseball, A-Rod has clearly still retained his passion for maintaining his physical fitness.
He and J-Lo started dating in 2017 and got engaged in 2019, winning the hearts of the public and earning the affectionate joint nickname 'J-Rod.'
Over their four years together, their families were able to blend, with Jennifer's twins befriending his daughters Natasha, 19, and Ella, 16.
However - after a long relationship occasionally hit by salacious and unconfirmed speculation about his fidelity - they announced their split in April 2021.
The year after they split, A-Rod spoke glowingly of JLo, calling her 'the most talented human being I've ever been around' while chatting with Martha Stewart.
Alex Rodriguez was a sight to see in a recent Instagram post from his summer holiday in Italy, accompanied by his fitness trainer girlfriend Jaclyn Cordeiro
A-Rod was a showstopper in this recent snap posted for his 49th birthday, flaunting his bronzed and muscled physique as he sunned himself on the deck of a yacht
Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees star JLo dated from 2017 until 2021, is pictured with her attending the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
He hailed JLo as the 'hardest worker' and 'the greatest live performer in the world that's alive today,' in an interview on Martha's podcast.
A-Rod also insisted they 'had a great time' together and 'more importantly, we always put the kids front and center in everything we do.'
Hours after JLo filed for divorce from Ben this week, A-Rod cryptically re-posted an Insta Story of a quote he originally uttered himself.
'You either go one way or the other. You might as well be the one deciding the direction,' read the message, eliciting a whirlwind of online conjecture.
