On Sunday, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were seen having lunch at Soho House in West Hollywood, reportedly to exchange Christmas gifts. Lopez was wearing a large white and blue cardigan over wide-legged jeans. Affleck wore a black peacoat over a blue sweater and T-shirt. Though J.Lo filed for divorce over the summer, a source told Page Six last Tuesday that they "have every intention of continuing to be in each other's lives despite not being romantically involved."
The source added, "Ben and Jennifer are still connected and they do communicate when it involves their kids."
The former couple were seen together earlier this month, along with Affleck's first ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, at the school their respective children attend. Affleck and Garner share three kids, Violet, Fin, and Samuel. Lopez shares her twins, Max and Emme, with her ex-husband Marc Anthony. Both Fin and Emme were performing in the school play, bringing the whole gang together again.
After meeting with Lopez, Affleck picked up Finn from Garner's home in Brentwood Park. Lopez went on to post a video to her Instagram Story featuring Emme singing to Justin Bieber's "Beauty and a Beat," tagging her sister Lynda Lopez, producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, and Wilhelmina Curve director Michelle Chiaravalle, writing over the clip, "When all the kids get together for the holidays!"
In an interview with British Vogue published Friday, Lopez discussed how she approaches "hardships" in the wake of her divorce from Ben Affleck.
"I think the way I overcome things is not by thinking of them as happening to me but happening for me and what is the lesson that needs to be learned in the moment," the star explained. "When I think of things that way and stay in a kind of a more positive mindset about it, it's easier to kind of embrace it for the lesson that it is."
She continued, "Because that's really what our hardships are in life. What am I supposed to learn here? There are no coincidences. This is not happening, you know, just randomly. It's happening for a reason."