<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-reveals-the-one-movie-role-she-wishes-she-hadnt-turned-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Lopez</a> took to social media to defend her new line of booze and set the record straight on whether the pop superstar/singer even drinks, as many critics claimed she doesn&#8217;t imbibe following the news about her new cocktail brand.</p>
<p>The 53-year-old actress <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-alcohol-brand/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a video on Tuesday on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuQd72ixx8s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> plugging Delola, her spritzer line, against online critics who said the &#8220;Hustlers&#8221; star previously swore off drinking alcohol in interviews.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that a lot of people have been talking about, &#8216;Oh she doesn&#8217;t even drink, what&#8217;s she doing with a cocktail line?'&#8221; Lopez said. &#8220;To tell you the truth, that was true for a long time – I didn&#8217;t drink.&#8221;</p>
<p>She also noted, that while she will does enjoy an occasional drink, she never drinks to get &#8220;s**t faced&#8221; and always drinks &#8220;responsibly.&#8221;</p>
<p>The singer said photos from a &#8220;a few years back&#8221; show that &#8220;over the past ten, maybe fifteen years&#8221; she has enjoyed &#8220;the occasional cocktail,&#8221; but when it came to finding the perfect drink, she &#8220;never found anything that I really love.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jennifer Lopez&#39;s new alcohol brand drew a lot of questions and even some criticism from folks who thought her household was booze-free &#8212; but she&#39;s setting the record straight. <a href="https://t.co/lWeXN8ZMGL">https://t.co/lWeXN8ZMGL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1676689968918327296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;And so, like anything else in my life, I created it myself,&#8221; Lopez said, pointing out that Delola is a &#8220;healthier&#8221; way that &#8220;fit my lifestyle to drink the way that I would drink – the way Jennifer drinks.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a 2018 article, then-49-year-old Lopez told <a href="https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/jennifer-lopez-december-cover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">InStyle</a> that one way she&#8217;s maintained her youthful glow is by abstaining from caffeine and alcohol, and getting lots of sleep.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve taken care of myself, and now it shows,&#8221; the singer said.</p>
<p>In April, when news first surfaced about the &#8220;Jenny From The Block&#8221; hitmaker&#8217;s booze line, she faced a backlash because of her husband <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-affleck-said-hed-still-be-drinking-if-he-stayed-married-to-jennifer-garner-felt-trapped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Affleck&#8217;s</a> known struggle with alcohol addiction, CNN noted. Many of the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuQd72ixx8s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> connected to the video she posted Monday brought up similar concerns.</p>
<p>&#8220;So awkward when she talks about drinking responsibly and not getting s**t faced knowing her husband suffers from alcoholism for years,&#8221; one person wrote.</p>
<p>Another added, &#8220;I’m just confused about her talking about alcohol and cocktails when her husband is an Alcoholic … who is allegedly in recovery? Makes no sense at all and I find it very difficult to understand.&#8221;</p>
<p>While a third said, &#8220;So all of a sudden she&#8217;s been drinking for the past 15 years? Yet I&#8217;ve seen interviews that she says that she keeps herself healthy because she doesn&#8217;t drink. oh Lord.&#8221;</p>


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Jennifer Lopez Defends New Line Of Booze, Sets Record Straight On If She Even Drinks

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<p>Ben Affleck said he was &#8220;miserable&#8221; during the filming of &#8220;Justice League,&#8221; remarking it almost made him quit Hollywood altogether.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-affleck">50-year-old</a> actor said he was drinking way &#8220;too much&#8221; when he had to be away from his kids in 2016 while filming the DC superhero movie in London, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/ben-affleck-air-production-company-grammys-memes-justice-league-1235353301/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;[&#8216;Justice League&#8217;] made me go, &#8216;I&#8217;m out,'&#8221; Affleck told the outlet. &#8220;I never want to do any of this again. I&#8217;m not suited.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ben Affleck&#39;s next shot. </p>
<p>The actor, filmmaker and budding CEO on the disruptive production company he launched with Matt Damon, why he’s done with DC, getting Michael Jordan’s blessing for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AirMovie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AirMovie</a> and the advice he took from wife Jennifer Lopez: <a href="https://t.co/yBVuMoYBYp">https://t.co/yBVuMoYBYp</a> <a href="https://t.co/QbAuaXRJRN">pic.twitter.com/QbAuaXRJRN</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1636353069943508992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;That was the worst experience I&#8217;ve ever seen in a business which is full of some sh***y experiences,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It broke my heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And I started to drink too much,” the actor continued. &#8220;I was back at the hotel in London, it was either that or jump out the window. And I just thought, &#8216;This isn&#8217;t the life I want. My kids aren&#8217;t here. I&#8217;m miserable.'&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Gone Girl&#8221; star and husband of Jennifer Lopez also said that the experience left such a bad &#8220;taste&#8221; in his mouth he decided not to direct his own &#8220;Batman&#8221; film.</p>
<p>Initially, Zach Snyder was in charge of directing the DC movie but left during production after a death in his family. Joss Whedon stepped in to help, but Affleck said it just made things worse.</p>
<p>&#8220;There was an idea of someone [Whedon] coming in, like, &#8216;I&#8217;ll rescue you and we&#8217;ll do 60 days of shooting and I&#8217;ll write a whole thing around what you have. I&#8217;ve got the secret,'&#8221; the &#8220;Good Will Hunting&#8221; star said. &#8220;And it wasn&#8217;t the secret. That was hard.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Affleck said if DC came to him now and asked him to direct a movie he wouldn&#8217;t work under James Gunn, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-affleck-says-no-to-directing-dc-movies-under-new-studio-head-james-gunn">reported</a>. Gunn and Peter Safran recently took over as heads for DC Studios.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would not direct something for the [James] Gunn DC,&#8221; Affleck said. &#8220;Absolutely not.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have nothing against James Gunn,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Nice guy, sure he&#8217;s going to do a great job. I just wouldn&#8217;t want to go in and direct in the way they&#8217;re doing that. I&#8217;m not interested in that.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Deep Water&#8221; star was previously married to actress Jennifer Garner for more than a decade. The two share three kids. Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance in 2021 and finally walked down the aisle at a chapel in Las Vegas in July 2022, 18 years after they got engaged for the first time.</p>


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‘Miserable’: Ben Affleck Reveals What Almost Made Him Quit Hollywood

‘I Was Miserable’: Ben Affleck Reveals What Almost Made Him Quit Hollywood

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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-affleck">Ben Affleck</a> set the record straight in a recent interview about the viral clip in which he appears grumpy while sitting next to his wife <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez">Jennifer Lopez</a> at the 2023 Grammys.</p>
<p>The 50-year-old actor said he&#8217;s gone to previous awards shows and been &#8220;pissed off&#8221; or went to them and &#8220;been bored,” but this year&#8217;s Grammys was not the case, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/ben-affleck-air-production-company-grammys-memes-justice-league-1235353301/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;I had a good time at the Grammys,&#8221; Affleck said. &#8220;My wife was going, and I thought, &#8216;Well, there&#8217;ll be good music. It might be fun.&#8217; At movie award shows, it&#8217;s speeches and, like, sound-mixing webinars. But I thought this would be fun.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I saw [GRAMMY host Trevor Noah approach] and I was like, &#8216;Oh, God.&#8217; They were framing us in this shot, but I didn’t know they were rolling,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;I leaned into her and I was like, &#8216;As soon they start rolling, I’m going to slide away from you and leave you sitting next to Trevor.&#8217; She goes, &#8216;You better f***ing not leave,’” Affleck continued. &#8220;That’s a husband-and-wife thing. I mean, some of it is, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;All right, who is this act?&#8217; Like, I don’t keep up. My wife does, obviously. And yeah, it is your wife&#8217;s work event.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lip reader reveals what was said during the tense exchange between Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck that was caught on camera during The Grammys. <a href="https://t.co/iWwOGQvMgd">pic.twitter.com/iWwOGQvMgd</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1622939647704973317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The &#8220;Gone Girl&#8221; star said he&#8217;s gone to awards shows and &#8220;been drunk, a bunch,” but no one &#8220;ever once said I’m drunk” until this year. Affleck, a recovering alcoholic, has been very open about his sobriety struggles.</p>
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<p>&#8220;[But at the Grammys] they were like, &#8216;He&#8217;s drunk,’” the actor explained. &#8220;And I thought, that&#8217;s interesting. That raises a whole other thing about whether or not it&#8217;s wise to acknowledge addiction because there&#8217;s a lot of compassion, but there is still a tremendous stigma, which is often quite inhibiting. I do think it disincentivizes people from making their lives better.”</p>
<p>The &#8220;Deep Water&#8221; star was previously married to actress Jennifer Garner for more than a decade. The two share three kids. Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance in 2021 and finally walked down the aisle at a chapel in Las Vegas in July 2022, 18 years after they got engaged for the first time.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-cant-get-enough-of-ben-affleck-looking-miserable-at-the-grammys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter Can&#8217;t Get Enough Of Ben Affleck Looking &#8216;Miserable&#8217; At The Grammys</a></strong></p>


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<p>Actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/j-lo-reveals-the-three-words-ben-affleck-had-engraved-on-her-engagement-ring-theyre-not-what-you-think/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Affleck</a> repped his own favorite coffee-and-donut fix — Dunkin&#8217; Donuts — in a Super Bowl spot alongside his new wife, singer Jennifer Lopez.</p>
<p>The ad debuted during Sunday&#8217;s matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs — the Chiefs <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chiefs-clinch-super-bowl-win-with-just-8-seconds-left-on-the-clock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clinched the win</a> with a field goal with just eight seconds left to play — and featured <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ben-affleck-spotted-working-a-dunkin-donuts-drive-thru-window/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Affleck</a> working the drive-thru as unsuspecting customers pulled in for coffee and donuts.</p>
<p>&#8220;They say go big or go home so Ben went big and came home to Massachusetts,&#8221; the chain tweeted from the brand Twitter account, sharing the commercial that showed Affleck working at the drive-thru in Medford, Massachusetts, surprising customers and posing for selfies as the realized who he was.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">they say go big or go home so Ben went big and came home to Massachusetts <a href="https://t.co/PctBV6McLR">pic.twitter.com/PctBV6McLR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Dunkin&#39; (@dunkindonuts) <a href="https://twitter.com/dunkindonuts/status/1624920081162547200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The last customer Affleck served was his wife, and as Lopez recognized him through the window, she asked, &#8220;What are you doing here?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re embarrassing me in front of my friends,&#8221; Affleck complained.</p>
<p>&#8220;Is this what you do when you say you&#8217;re going to work all day?&#8221; Lopez pressed.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gotta go, guys,&#8221; Affleck said to the other employees, and Lopez shouted after him, &#8220;Grab me a glazed!&#8221;</p>
<p>But some of Affleck&#8217;s favorite interactions did not make the final cut — &#8220;It&#8217;s Boston, after all, so we had some rather coarse and agitated people who were willing to voice their displeasure in a colorful way. I&#8217;m still lobbying to include the most interesting of those in some of the edgiest social spots.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dunkin&#8217; Donuts shared a second video after the ad aired, including some of the outtakes.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Welcome to the Medford, Massachusetts, Dunkin&#8217;, scenic Medford,&#8221; Affleck said over the headset. &#8220;Why travel when you&#8217;re already there? That&#8217;s our slogan. You can have a &#8230; whatever you want for free.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m struggling,&#8221; Affleck said, and then apologized as he spilled a drink as he handed out the window. Poking the touch screen, he added, &#8220;I cannot make it function. Malfunction! Not as easy as it looks operating this apparatus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Affleck proceeded to ad-lib, telling one customer that they were out of coffee and donuts and all they had was water. &#8220;You&#8217;re s****ing me,&#8221; was the man&#8217;s response.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to compensate with comedy for my ineptitude,&#8221; Affleck replied.</p>
<p>He then attempted to repeat a customer&#8217;s order back to her, mangling it so badly that she asked, &#8220;Are you all right this morning?&#8221;</p>


‘Are You All Right This Morning?’: Dunkin’ Donuts Drops Outtakes From Ben Affleck Super Bowl Ad

Dunkin' Donuts Drops Outtakes From Ben Affleck Super Bowl Ad

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photos of </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-affleck"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ben Affleck</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looking miserable at the 65th </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/grammys"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grammy Awards</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> alongside his new wife, </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jennifer Lopez</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, have been making the rounds on social media.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fans are delighted with multiple shots of the 50-year-old actor sitting in the front row with a sour look on his face, which are all reminiscent of a viral meme featuring Affleck looking sad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lopez and Affleck did not walk the </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">red carpet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> together, but they were spotted several times when cameras panned to them in the Grammys audience. One of those instances was during an appearance by Stevie Wonder, Chris Stapleton, and Smokey Robinson. Lopez looked like she was enjoying the show while her husband of six months seemed less than enthused.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Ben Affleck would rather be anywhere else than front row at the [Grammys] watching Stevie Wonder crush Higher Ground,” one person </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mattwilstein/status/1622413284984123393"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reacted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the clip. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[H]owever bad of a day you’re having, I promise you’re not as miserable as Ben Affleck at the Grammys right now,” another Twitter user </span><a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerAlthouse/status/1622414464002695169"><span style="font-weight: 400;">agreed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">however bad of a day you’re having, I promise you’re not as miserable as Ben Affleck at the Grammys right now <a href="https://t.co/OQxA54H9P1">pic.twitter.com/OQxA54H9P1</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerAlthouse/status/1622414464002695169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Good Will Hunting” actor had previously opened up about one of the original “sad Affleck” memes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I got to a place where [the public perception] was so different from who I am that I just stopped reading and stopped caring,&#8221; he </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-01-07/ben-affleck-tender-bar-amazon"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The Los Angeles Times last year of how fans saw him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;But then, as my kids got older and started seeing the internet themselves, that&#8217;s the difficult part,” he continued. “Even the &#8216;Sad Affleck&#8217; meme — that was funny to me. I mean, there&#8217;s nobody who hasn&#8217;t felt that way at a junket. But then my kids see it and I think, &#8216;Oh, are they going to think their dad is fundamentally sad or they have to worry about me?&#8217; That&#8217;s really tough.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The father of three made headlines last year when he married Lopez a full 18 years after their first engagement was called off.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They feel like they are in the same place in life now and relate to each other on another level,” a source said at the time of their relationship, as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-get-married-18-years-after-first-engagement"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Ben feels younger around Jen and like she brings out his best self. He loves that he doesn’t have to try very hard and can just be himself. Jen loves being around Ben no matter what they are doing.”</span></p>


Twitter Can’t Get Enough Of Ben Affleck Looking ‘Miserable’ At The Grammys

Twitter Can't Get Enough Of Ben Affleck Looking 'Miserable' At The Grammys

<p>Jennifer Lopez revealed the one movie role she wished she hadn&#8217;t turned down — in the 2002 romance, thriller &#8220;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250797/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unfaithful</a>&#8221; — with the leading roles going to Richard Gere and Diane Lane.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">53-year-old</a> actress opened up about a wide variety of topics for <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/73-questions-with-jennifer-lopez">Vogue&#8217;s</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVAb-iLIwfA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">73 Questions with Jennifer Lopez</a> in a clip posted on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVAb-iLIwfA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> on Wednesday. One of the questions from the magazine was &#8220;is there a movie you really regret turning down.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Unfaithful,&#8221; Lopez answered as she shook her head yes. She did not however explain what role it was she turned down.</p>
<p>When asked which of her movies she would most like to make a sequel to, her answer was the movie she and husband Ben Affleck met and starred in together, and that was &#8220;Gigli&#8221; that came out in 2003.</p>
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<p>Among the other revelations the &#8220;Marry Me&#8221; star shared was what she would do if she could go &#8220;unrecognized for 24 hours.”</p>
<p>Her answer was simple: &#8220;walk through a crowd.&#8221;</p>
<p>Other questions arose such as what her favorite holiday is — to which Lopez replied, &#8220;Christmas&#8221; as she shared it’s the one time of year she eats those special foods like &#8220;pasteles&#8221; and &#8220;pernil.&#8221; She also said it&#8217;s her favorite because it&#8217;s &#8220;the most sparkly holiday of all.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked by the magazine what she wanted for Christmas, the &#8220;Jenny From The Block&#8221; hitmaker replied, &#8220;I have everything I want.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a recent interview, the &#8220;Hustlers&#8221; star spoke about how she and Affleck found each other again for what she called their fairy-tale ending after she went through three marriages and two broken engagements, according to <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-december-cover-2022-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vogue</a>.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lopez</a>, after she and former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez called off their engagement, she got an email from Affleck, for whom she said she always felt &#8220;real love.&#8221; The two continued talking, then started seeing each other privately.</p>
<p>&#8220;Obviously we weren&#8217;t trying to go out in public,&#8221; the singer explained. &#8220;But I never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there. People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lopez and the &#8220;Good Will Hunting”&#8221;star were first engaged in 2003 before breaking things off in 2004, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In 2021, the two started dating again, and eighteen years after their initial break, they finally walked down the aisle in July.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-finally-reveals-whether-she-or-ben-affleck-reached-out-to-rekindle-their-romance">Jennifer Lopez Finally Reveals Whether She Or Ben Affleck Reached Out To Rekindle Their Romance</a></strong></p>


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Jennifer Lopez Reveals The One Movie Role She Wishes She Hadn’t Turned Down

Jennifer Lopez Reveals The One Movie Role She Wishes She Hadn't Turned Down

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<p>Singer <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-finally-reveals-whether-she-or-ben-affleck-reached-out-to-rekindle-their-romance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Lopez</a> revealed the three simple words her new husband — actor Ben Affleck — had engraved on her engagement ring when he proposed to her for a second time nearly two decades after the pair had gone their separate ways.</p>
<p>Lopez made the revelation during an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, noting that the words were repeated in the title of the sixth track on her latest album. The singer explained this was really about her finding Affleck again and reconnecting when the time was finally right for both of them.</p>
<p>The album is “This Is Me … Now” and is meant, according to Lopez, to capture a snapshot of her life at this moment; the song is titled “Not. Going. Anywhere.”</p>
<p>Lopez explained that the significance of the words came directly from the couple’s reunion after years apart — and signified their commitment to making it work this time around.</p>
<p>“That’s how he would sign his emails when we started talking again,” Lopez said of Affleck, explaining that the words were meant to reassure her that he was going to stand by her for the duration. “Like, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere.’”</p>
<p>And while Lopez said that she and Affleck had been on the same page from the moment they reconnected, the added reassurance from Affleck may have provided additional comfort after their first engagement ended badly.</p>
<p>“Once we called off that wedding 20 years ago, I was … it was the biggest heartbreak of my life. I honestly felt like I was going to die. It sent me on a spiral for the next 18 years,” the “Jenny from the Block” singer admitted.</p>
<p>Lopez made it clear in the interview that she was grateful for the lessons learned during their time apart — and for the things they’d accomplished as individuals — but her underlying message was one of hope to anyone who felt like giving up.</p>
<p>Encouraging them not to give up even if the road ahead seemed dark, Lopez reassured her fans that “true love does exist.”</p>
<p>After nearly two decades apart, Lopez and Affleck were married twice in 2022 — once in a simple <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-get-married-18-years-after-first-engagement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Las Vegas ceremony</a> and then in a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/love-is-patient-twenty-years-patient-jennifer-lopez-goes-all-in-with-ben-affleck-by-changing-her-last-name/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lavish event</a> in Georgia.</p>
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Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles – December 15, 2021

J. Lo Reveals The Three Words Ben Affleck Had Engraved On Her Engagement Ring – They’re Not What You Think

J. Lo Reveals The Three Words Ben Affleck Had Engraved On Her Engagement Ring – They're Not What You Think

<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Lopez</a> finally revealed whether it was she or husband <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-affleck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Affleck</a> who reached out to rekindle their romance before the two tied the knot at a Las Vegas chapel in July 2022.</p>
<p>The 53-year-old actress spoke about how she and Affleck found each other again for what she called their fairy-tale ending after she went through three marriages and two broken engagements, according to <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-december-cover-2022-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vogue</a>.</p>
<p>According to Lopez, after she and former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez called off their engagement, she got an email from Affleck, for whom she said she always felt &#8220;real love.” The two continued talking, then started seeing each other privately.</p>
<p>&#8220;Obviously we weren&#8217;t trying to go out in public,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">singer</a> explained. &#8220;But I never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there. People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that I recommend this for everybody,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Sometimes you outgrow each other, or you just grow differently. The two of us, we lost each other and found each other. Not to discredit anything in between that happened, because all those things were real, too. All we&#8217;ve ever wanted was to kind of come to a place of peace in our lives where we really felt that type of love that you feel when you&#8217;re very young and wonder if you can have that again.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Does it exist? Is it real?&#8221; Lopez continued. &#8220;All those questions that I think everyone has. You go through all these relationships, and you&#8217;re searching and you&#8217;re connecting and you&#8217;re disconnecting with people, and you&#8217;re like, God, is this just what life is? Like a carousel, roller coaster, carnival ride? And then it settles. But the journey to that is the mystery for everybody.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Jenny From The Block&#8221; hitmaker and the &#8220;Good Will Hunting&#8221; star were first engaged in 2003 before breaking things off in 2004, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In 2021, the two started dating again, and eighteen years after their initial break, they finally walked down the aisle.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-still-carries-tradition-jennifer-lopez-says-she-was-shocked-after-nyt-op-ed-upset-she-took-ben-afflecks-last-name">&#8216;It Still Carries Tradition’: Jennifer Lopez Says She Was Shocked After NYT Op-Ed Upset She Took Ben Affleck&#8217;s Last Name</a></strong></p>


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Jennifer Lopez Finally Reveals Whether She Or Ben Affleck Reached Out To Rekindle Their Romance

<p>Jennifer Lopez said she was shocked after learning about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/opinion/jlo-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck.html">The New York Times</a> op-ed that expressed disappointment when the singer took Ben Affleck&#8217;s last name after the two tied the knot at a Las Vegas chapel in July.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez">53-year-old</a> singer admitted the idea of taking the name of the person you love &#8220;still carries tradition&#8221; and was something she didn&#8217;t even think about not doing when she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/love-is-patient-twenty-years-patient-jennifer-lopez-goes-all-in-with-ben-affleck-by-changing-her-last-name">married</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-affleck">50-year-old actor</a>, <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-december-cover-2022-interview">Vogue</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;What? Really?&#8221; Lopez asked. &#8220;People are still going to call me Jennifer Lopez. But my legal name will be Mrs. Affleck because we&#8217;re joined together. We&#8217;re husband and wife. I&#8217;m proud of that. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a problem.&#8221;</p>
<p>The singer laughed when the interviewer asked if any part of her would want the &#8220;Good Will Hunting&#8221; star to be Mr. Lopez.</p>
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<p>&#8220;No! It&#8217;s not traditional,&#8221; Lopez explained.  &#8220;It doesn’t have any romance to it. It feels like it&#8217;s a power move, you know what I mean? I&#8217;m very much in control of my own life and destiny and feel empowered as a woman and as a person.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I can understand that people have their feelings about it, and that&#8217;s okay, too,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But if you want to know how I feel about it, I just feel like it&#8217;s romantic. It still carries tradition and romance to me, and maybe I&#8217;m just that kind of girl.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the July NYT op-ed titled, &#8220;Why It Matters That J. Lo Is Now J. Aff,&#8221; the writer called the idea of taking a man&#8217;s last name &#8220;cringe-y,&#8221; &#8220;peak patriarchy,&#8221; and more.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ms. Affleck may be surrendering to the power of love with this, her fourth marriage,&#8221; the op-ed read. &#8220;But given the cringe-y history behind the practice, a woman taking her husband&#8217;s last name feels to me like a submission — a gesture that doesn&#8217;t say &#8216;I belong with him&#8217; so much as &#8216;I belong to him.&#8217; And at this fraught moment for feminism in America, a woman like the former Jennifer Lopez deciding to change her name feels especially dispiriting.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood">Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Why She Was &#8216;Going To Quit&#8217; Hollywood</a></strong></p>


‘It Still Carries Tradition’: Jennifer Lopez Says She Was Shocked After NYT Op-Ed Upset She Took Ben Affleck’s Last Name

Jennifer Lopez Shocked After NYT Op-Ed Upset She Took Ben Affleck’s Last Name

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fans were surprised that </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-affleck"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ben Affleck</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jennifer Lopez</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> headed to </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/las-vegas"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Las Vegas</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to get </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage"><span style="font-weight: 400;">married</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this weekend, but they were even more shocked to learn that Lopez is changing her last name to match her husband.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Court documents show that the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer requested a &#8220;new name&#8221; on her marriage certificate submission, which was filed on Sunday with the Clark County Clerk&#8217;s Office, per Fox News.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not the first time Lopez changed her last name, either. The publication reported that the 52-year-old celebrity also did so when she was married to Marc Anthony from 2004 until 2014. Six months after their divorce was finalized, she changed it back.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After Affleck and Lopez’s nuptial news went viral, the singer shared a </span><a href="https://l.instagram.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fonthejlo.com%2F&amp;e=ATMx-zTg4YqSFzBEn-pTWDXMLkwIt-WI_ZYktWMbe3vqYnESPzeIzOs9i3ao0vw4k9RJ3ZzCB3LMEY89XPU&amp;s=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">newsletter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> update with fans that provided more photos and details. She linked to it on Instagram, plus posted a </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgIQCz6Pk0U/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">photo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of herself smiling in bed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,&#8221; she wrote. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line for a license with four other couples, all making the same journey to the wedding capital of the world,” Lopez continued. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Behind us two men held hands and held each other. In front of us, a young couple who made the three hour drive from Victorville on their daughter’s second birthday—all of us wanting the same thing— for the world to recognize us as partners and to declare our love to the world through the ancient and nearly universal symbol of marriage.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The lengthy letter described the venue and their transportation, which was allegedly a pink Cadillac convertible that was “evidently once used by the king himself,” referring to Elvis Presley, who was known as &#8220;The King of Rock and Roll.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;But in the end it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined,” the “Gigli” star wrote. “One we dreamed of long ago and one made real (in the eyes of the state, Las Vegas, a pink convertible and one another) at very, very long last.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She continued, &#8220;When love is real, the only thing that matters in marriage is one another and the promise we make to love, care, understand, be patient, loving and good to one another. We had that. And so much more. Best night of our lives.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;They were right when they said, ‘all you need is love.’ We are so grateful to have that in abundance, a new wonderful family of five amazing children and a life that we have never had more reason to look forward to,&#8221; Lopez wrote. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Stick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive through in Las Vegas at twelve thirty in the morning in the tunnel of love drive through, with your kids and the one you’ll spend forever with. Love is a great thing, maybe the best of things-and worth waiting for.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She concluded the update writing, &#8220;With love, Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck.&#8221; </span></p>


Celebrity Sightings In New York City – September 26, 2021

‘Love Is Patient. Twenty Years Patient’: Jennifer Lopez Goes All In With Ben Affleck By Changing Her Last Name

Jennifer Lopez Goes All In With Ben Affleck By Changing Her Last Name

Las Vegas

<p>Actor Ben Affleck and singer Jennifer Lopez have gotten married, according to multiple reports.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/17/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-married-vegas/">TMZ</a>, the &#8220;Good Will Hunting&#8221; star and the pop icon were married in a private ceremony in Las Vegas. Citing court records from Clark County, Nevada, the outlet reported that the couple obtained a marriage license in their full legal names— Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez — that was processed on July 16. A source reportedly confirmed the news to TMZ.</p>
<p>Another source confirmed the marriage to <a href="https://www.etonline.com/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-get-married-184493">Entertainment Tonight</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jen and Ben got married in Vegas,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;They have so much fun together and thought this would be a fun idea too. Ben is absolutely in love with Jen and feels loved by her too. They both feel so comfortable with each other and like they share history and know each other so well.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They feel like they are in the same place in life now and relate to each other on another level,&#8221; the source continued. &#8220;Ben feels younger around Jen and like she brings out his best self. He loves that he doesn&#8217;t have to try very hard and can just be himself. Jen loves being around Ben no matter what they are doing.&#8221; Lopez thinks incredibly highly of Affleck as a father, and now stepfather, the source added. &#8220;She thinks Ben is an incredible partner and father. She celebrates him for the good and they are both really there for each other. They&#8217;re so excited to make more memories together and have more adventures, both as a couple and as a family.&#8221;</p>
<p>Affleck and Lopez&#8217;s marriage comes just a few months after Lopez announced her engagement to Affleck. TMZ reported in early April that Lopez was spotted wearing an enormous <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/07/jennifer-lopez-jlo-possible-engagement-ring-ben-affleck/">green diamond ring</a> while out shopping with her daughter Emme. Lopez later confirmed her engagement in a video posted to her fan newsletter, <em>On the JLo</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Saturday night &#8230; my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,&#8221; Lopez wrote at the time, via ET. &#8220;I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again, I was quite literally speechless and he said, &#8216;is that a yes?’ I said YES of course that’s a YES.&#8221; I was smiling so big and tears were coming down my face, feeling so incredibly happy and whole. It was nothing fancy at all, but it was the most romantic thing I could’ve ever imagined &#8230; just a quiet Saturday night at home, two people promising to always be there for each other. Two very lucky people. Who got a second chance at true love.&#8221;</p>
<p>Affleck and Lopez reunited in 2021, having previously dated between 2002 and 2004. Lopez had already been married twice and had just divorced her second husband, former backup dancer Cris Judd. The couple met on the set of the film &#8220;Gigli&#8221; and began a relationship shortly afterward. They were engaged in November 2002 but split up in 2004. Affleck went on to marry actress Jennifer Garner, but they divorced in 2018. Lopez was married to singer Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014 and was engaged to New York Yankees great Alex Rodriguez from 2017 to 2021.</p>


Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez Get Married 18 Years After First Engagement

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlize Theron. Dwyane Wade. Cher. Jamie Lee Curtis. Annette Benning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And now, Jennifer Lopez.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This hodgepodge list of celebrities all has something significant in common: each is raising non-binary or transgender children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outside of this group, there is a whole community of Hollywood elites who are choosing a progressive, non-gendered approach to parenting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most recently, Jennifer Lopez made </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-uses-they-them-pronouns-to-introduce-daughter-for-performance-with-rainbow-colored-mic"><span style="font-weight: 400;">headlines</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> when she brought her 14-year-old daughter, Emme, out to sing a duet at the LA Dodgers Foundation Gala and introduced her using gender-neutral they/them pronouns. The internet </span><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/jennifer-lopez-emme-performance-they-pronouns"><span style="font-weight: 400;">erupted in support</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of Lopez’s progressive parenting as she helped Emme come out as non-binary on the world’s stage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was immediately transported back to my childhood. My brothers and I won the lottery with a mother who would walk through fire for us and actively sought out opportunities to support our interests and unique quirks, but she was no JLo. She didn’t enable delusions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By all standards, my mother was strict. Any independence we had was earned through mutual trust and respect. She was a parent first and a friend second. Up until recent years, I would’ve thought that this parenting style was the norm.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But not in 2022.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, there is a dangerous trend of parents blindly going along with their children&#8217;s every whim and demanding that the rest of the world follow suit. These parents are quick to lean into progressive gender theory and affirm their children — of all ages — as the opposite sex, or in some cases, no sex at all. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I believe that, on the surface, many of these parents are simply misguided and have been convinced that this is the most loving and supportive path to take, even though science </span><a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/transitioning-procedures-dont-help-mental-health-largest-dataset-shows"><span style="font-weight: 400;">suggests</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that it’s not.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, I think most of these parents are deeply fueled by fear — the fear of getting canceled by the progressive mob, the fear of their children lashing out, and the fear of the government coming after them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While that may seem like a significant statement, it’s not off base.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On a state level, many governors, like </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-says-hed-support-a-law-banning-gender-transition-surgeries-on-children-there-should-be-additional-protections"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ron DeSantis (R-FL)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-law-criminalizing-transgender-health-care-for-minors-goes-into-effect"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kay Ivey (R-AL)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, are taking powerful steps to protect parental rights and protect minors from gender reassignment procedures, but that is far from the case in more progressive states.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In California, legislators are working to pass </span><a href="https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB107/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senate Bill 107</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which would turn the state into a transgender sanctuary for minors seeking gender reassignment and “authorize a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You read that correctly. Legislators want the state to be able to take custody of your children if you do not affirm their social-contagion-fueled transgender feelings with puberty blockers and surgeries. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shockingly and sadly, this isn’t new. Individual </span><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/father-who-lost-custody-of-trans-child-runs-for-texas-house-to-outlaw-child-gender-reassignments/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cases</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have been popping up around the United States for years. In Canada, laws already exist that “[prevent] parents from challenging a child’s same-sex orientation, or with identification not with the gender that he or she was born, but rather the opposite one,” </span><a href="https://familyllb.com/2018/02/19/parents-lose-custody-for-failing-to-respect-teenagers-wish-to-transgender/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">according to</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Family LLB in Ontario.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This might not be far off for Americans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just last Wednesday, President Biden announced a new executive order aimed at the GOP’s </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1537175566989656065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1537175566989656065%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fnews%2Fbiden-pride-month-speech-blasts-ultra-maga-agenda-attacking-families%2F"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Ultra-MAGA agenda,”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which he accused of targeting families and harming transgender children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This executive order </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/15/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-advancing-lgbtqi-equality-during-pride-month/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">directs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Department of Health and Human Services to do everything in its power to protect LGBTQ+ children’s access to “gender-affirming health care” and asks the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other departments to begin cracking down on therapeutic practices that attempt to “suppress or change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQI+ people,” which he defines as “conversion therapy.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But here’s the thing, conversion therapy hasn’t been used by the </span><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/06/bidens-repackaged-conversion-therapy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Psychiatry Association since 1973</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, so what is Biden vaguely asking the FTC to police? If a child goes to their therapist with concerns about gender, will their psychologist have to affirm these feelings for fear of a conversion therapy accusation?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are living in a society that is </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">so afraid</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of a loud, extremist minority that people are willing to roll over and allow — or even worse, encourage — irreversible damage to be done to their children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Therefore, it was reasonable for HBO talk show host and comedian </span><a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1527887977845649408?s=20&amp;t=HGhhfc5Tcvn8FwVDtHpRfw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bill Maher</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to question why the spike in transgender youth is regional, saying  “Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a simplistic statement but it rings true. In the most progressive places, the people who are supposed to protect children are the ones enabling and supporting this dangerous, experimental trend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whether it is related to gender or not, parents, therapists, and teachers are </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> there to affirm a child’s every impulse and fantasy. This does nothing but harm young people and makes them wholly unprepared for the harsh realities of the adult world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And considering the astounding number of Gen Z members who are struggling with mental illness or gender confusion in their late teens and 20s, it’s clear we’re already seeing the dire ramifications of this attitude.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is imperative that we change course before it is too late. Young people deserve better.</span></p>
<p><em><span class="il">Brett</span> Cooper is The Daily Wire’s newest personality and host of The Comments Section. She’s a professional actress turned political commentator — she previously contributed to the Foundation for Economic Education, Young Americans for Liberty, and PragerU.</em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>


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