Violet Affleck and one of her friends flew to the Hamptons several days ago, and Violet has been staying and hanging out with her stepmother, Jennifer Lopez. Violet and J.Lo got pap’d together a lot over the weekend as they grabbed some ice cream and went shopping. I honestly believe Violet and J.Lo get along and Jennifer probably loves having a girly-girl stepdaughter around. Max and Emme are also in the Hamptons with their mom too, I think? Whatever else happened to Ben and J.Lo, they did a good job blending their families and their kids get along. From People:
Jennifer Lopez and Violet Affleck are spending time together. The singer and actress, 54, was spotted walking arm-in-arm with Ben Affleck’s 18-year-old daughter Violet as they headed out in Southampton, N.Y., on Sunday, July 14.
Lopez and Violet had their arms around each other as they appeared to enter 75 Main restaurant. The pair were joined by Violet’s best friend, actress Cassidey Fralin.
A source tells PEOPLE that Lopez and Violet “really enjoy each other’s company.”
“They both seem so happy to be spending this time together, and are just enjoying the moment,” says the source.
Lopez wore a plunging black maxi dress for the outing as she carried a Hermes Birkin in matching black while sporting her wedding ring and a pair of large aviator sunglasses.
Meanwhile on the same day in Los Angeles, Ben, 51, was photographed out solo riding his motorcycle on the opposite side of the coast.
By all accounts, Violet is really smart. I wonder if this is more than just Violet and her friend enjoying a vacation in the Hamptons. I wonder if this is Violet telling her dad to get a grip and not sabotage another marriage. We’ll see. Also: I looked it up and Violet will attend Yale. But is she doing a gap year or is she entering college this fall?
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Jennifer Lopez and Violet Affleck spending time together buying ice cream in the Hamptons. Featuring: Jennifer Lopez Where: Hamptons, New York, United States When: 13 Jul 2024 Credit: Matt Agudo/INSTARimages
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- Jennifer Lopez spotted shopping in The Hamptons with step-daughter Violet Affleck. Violet was once again wearing a face mask, after she recently demanded that mask mandates be reinstated. Featuring: Jennifer Lopez, Violet Affleck Where: The Hamptons, New York, United States When: 14 Jul 2024 Credit: Matt Agudo/INSTARimages
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- Jennifer Lopez spotted shopping in The Hamptons with step-daughter Violet Affleck. Violet was once again wearing a face mask, after she recently demanded that mask mandates be reinstated. Featuring: Jennifer Lopez, Violet Affleck Where: The Hamptons, New York, United States When: 14 Jul 2024 Credit: Matt Agudo/INSTARimages
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- Jennifer Lopez spotted shopping in The Hamptons with step-daughter Violet Affleck. Violet was once again wearing a face mask, after she recently demanded that mask mandates be reinstated. Featuring: Jennifer Lopez, Violet Affleck Where: The Hamptons, New York, United States When: 14 Jul 2024 Credit: Matt Agudo/INSTARimages
This is really sweet. I’m a divorce attorney so seeing stuff like this fills my jaded heart with warmth.
Possible Violet is staying with her best friend. JLO happens to be there, so Violet has seen her stepmom a few times too.
And that this is a stop off at the Hamptons on the way to Europe for a post- graduation trip.
Love the continued masking, thank you Violet!
The story says that “Violet Affleck and one of her friends flew to the Hamptons,” not that the friend has a place in the Hamptons. It’s common to invite a friend for your kid to socialize with. Angelina does this also. Don’t know why the friend would want to be in the news. We don’t have to be so cynical! Let’s have fun with this. Love Violet’s outfit and Jennifer’s too.
I agree, this is super sweet.
I’ve noticed every time there is a post about Bennifer breaking up on here, there are some commenters who go hard with their predictions about how once the divorce is over, JLo will abandon her stepchildren, etc.
It’s super weird energy, because
1) it is NEVER matched by concern than Ben will abandon JLo’s kids – it’s all very gendered, misogynist bad-mothering hand-wringing directed solely at JLo;
2) Maybe I’ve missed it, but I’ve not seen this kind of concern about celebrities continuing to parent their former stepchildren with any other celebrity break-up, really.; and
3) We keep getting articles that JLo IS tight with her stepkids, despite everyone being on gossip tenterhooks for months, awaiting her split from Ben. Yet she’s out there going to every Affleck moving up ceremony, taking Violet out to lunch, hanging with her in the Hamptons, etc.
So what is up with pre-emptive piling on about how she’ll never speak to those kids again, etc.?
Children shouldn’t loose family/loved ones because of a divorce.. love that the children are not being made apart of whatever is happening with the parents marriage.
Maybe Violet is helping Jen with face-saving-PR in exchange for getting her friend’s name in the news. I had never heard of this pretty young woman, and now I’ve heard her name twice. Good for Violet if so! That would be a good friend.
I thought it odd they published the friend’s name too and yes I’m cynical about jlo with her publishing a selfie with her step daughter and now publicly known friend into her instagram story when her parents never have. Wonder how Ben felt about that?
Jennifer Garner and Finn were seen boarding a flight. I assume Sam is home with Ben unless he is away at camp.
I really enjoy this story. It feels organic and mutual. I don’t think Violet is sending any message but I do feel she grew close to Jlo. I’m also really loving the way Jlo is handling this and giving him space. I’m not saying she isn’t leaking stories and might have resentments but she isn’t giving into Ben’s triggering behavior. I know she triggered him first with her over compensating tribute to herself but this is a good sign. That she is her own best friend and won’t be making this ugly for story-lines. I also think it speaks loudly about Jlo as a person, step-mom, mom and her love of family.
J-Lo has never been messy after breakups. It’s not her way. I think she is always pretty classy about it and not airing a lot of dirty linen.
BUT she was with A-Rod for four or five years. His kids called her their stepmother. The kids referred to each other as stepsisters, etc. She talked about how bonded they all were as a family. She used to do the whole social media wishing them a happy birthday and the loving cards received from them, etc. The moment it ended and she got with Ben, not a word about her “step-daughters” who Emme was completely bonded with.
Now, I can see Violet, who is going to college, keeping in touch with J-Lo over the years. She bonded with her in a more adult fashion, a teen on the brink of womanhood. If a divorce happens and Ben gets with another woman and she with another man, it will be interesting how much J-Lo keeps in touch with the other kids and vice-versa, just by looking back at what happened with A-Rod’s kids. There is rumor that Jennifer wants to move back to NYC if she and Ben divorce.
Off topic – but I love how different the styles of, Violet vs her friend. I love when opp fashion folks are besties. Violet packed sweet innocent prints and her friend looks more contemporary. I really think this is nice.
I’ve never thought about my friend group and whether our styles match. Come to think of it they don’t necessarily. We have some clothes horses and some frumps but we all love each other just the same. And as far as keeping friendships with divorced family I have to say I’m still friendly with my sisters’ ex husbands. They divorced them but I had nothing against them and my husband doesn’t either. My parents feel the same way.
J-Lo is a business woman. An ambitious and successful one at that. And summer in the Hamptons is the ultimate in networking. A cross section of politicos, venture capitalists, fashion/entertainment execs and celebrities. A lot of fund raising for different causes as well. Perhaps young Violet is there to hob-nob with the movers and shakers from the East Coast. I look at this as a coming out of sorts with Jennifer Lopez introducing Violet to society.
Seems like she’s using Violet for PR. So many paps walks and articles about their supposed relationship.
Violet is 18 years old, not a toddler. It’s weird to presume that she wouldn’t be intelligent or savvy enough to know if she was being used. It’s also weird to assume that J Lo wouldn’t be a genuinely fun person to hang out with, especially from a teenage girl’s perspective.
@Kitten
You are fed up with all the Jennifer bashing. They don’t like her much here.
They also don’t like Brad. When l open the comments l am like ‘here we go’
@lusaka
This is the only place where women are not under constant attack. There are some valid points on lsa, but the misogyny is otherwise strong in recent years. Meanwhile, abusers get passes. Strange times.
Omg, she is 18, and has 2 parents and seems to be smart on her own. So, maybe, just maybe, she likes JL? Maybe Garner trusts Lopez? Maybe women are not the problem…
Kate, I agree she is using Violet for PR, the insta story, the nonstop paps walks and People exclus. She was publicly seen one time alone with Violet in her 3 years relationship with Ben but now the marriage is over it’s been nonstop. She couldn’t be more transparent
Gwenyth is my least-favorite person ever, but can we PLEASE normalize extended/blended/everyone is still family models of coupling/uncoupling? Let Ben and Jen live in separate houses, go on hot dates when they have time, and their kids all love one another. The kids love the other partner etc … This isn’t the 50s! Mom and Dad don’t have to live in the same house and eat dinner together at 5 for it to be a “real” relationship …
This convinces me that the problem is Ben not JLo and perhaps Violet knows that too.
Or perhaps Violet is just a well raised daughter who isn’t going to hate on her stepmother because her dad is leaving her. It’s more a testament of Garner and Ben’s good parenting.
What makes you think two people splitting up means stepchildren are taking sides when neither the parent or step-parent is asking them to? I mean, even if Ben wants a divorce, he did invite J-Lo to Sam’s graduation party. She was invited to Violet’s graduation party. Good parents don’t want their children to take sides in a split-up with a step-parent. They weren’t even married two years. There was an outing last week with Violet with her father with her arms wrapped around his shoulder. She is extremely close with her father, and perhaps Violet is just letting the adults deal with their marriage problems.
The kids witnessed a marriage not doing so well long before we did with two people in very busy careers. I doubt she blames one over the other.
“Jennifer probably loves having a girly-girl stepdaughter”
Hmmm
A ” source” was allegedly reporting that there was supposed to be a divorce announcement on the weekend of the 4th, but it never happened. I think it never happened because Violet was joining JL in the Hamptons. I hope that Violet & JL can maintain their friendship even if there is a divorce..