Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Are Engaged!

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are ready to get married!

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She revealed the exciting update in a Friday evening email to her inner circle

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She also added a diamond ring emoji to her Twitter handle.

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we have more experience, we're at different places in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very conscious of those things."

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She added, "We have been in the game in the public eye long enough to know who we are as people and what really matters and what doesn't matter

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