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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have denied multiple reports Friday that they had split up.
"All the reports are inaccurate," read a joint statement. "We are working through some things."
Both Page Six and TMZ claimed the couple ended their engagement. The outlets cited unnamed sources as saying the couple called it quits on Friday.
In an Instagram Story on Friday, Lopez – currently working on the movie Shotgun Wedding in Dominican Republic – shared a screen-grab from a FaceTime session in which one of her children is being comforted by their father, singer Marc Anthony. Lopez wrote: “When they are sad but momma and daddy are there. #Coconuts I Love You!! So Proud of You…”
On Thursday, Lopez wrote “Find a good reason to laugh today… Sending everyone love” in an Instagram post with clips of herself laughing during various TV appearances.
A-Rod on Friday posted a photo of himself on a yacht in Miami that he captioned: “Don’t mind me, just taking a sail-fie… What are you plans for the weekend?”
Lopez and Rodriguez announced their engagement exactly two years ago after two years of dating. Both shared the same photo on Instagram of the diamond engagement ring on Lopez’s hand. “She said yes,” Rodriguez captioned his pic while Lopez displayed only heart emojis.
The two were seen together at the Biden-Harris inauguration in January and again last month for Super Bowl weekend in Tampa. In February, A-Rod visited his fiancée in Dominican Republic.
In the March issue of Allure, Lopez revealed that she and A-Rod had attended therapy during the pandemic. “It has been actually really good. We got to work on ourselves. We did therapy," she explained. "It was really helpful for us in our relationship."
It would be the fourth marriage for Lopez and the second for Rodriguez. In June 2019, Lopez said she wanted to get married in a church, which she has never done.
“I was very young the first two times I tried to get married. I’m saying tried to," she joked in a Making The It’s My Party Tour: Showtime! video on YouTube.
She added: “It seems like in this life, like you’re always surrounded by people, you’re never lonely. But it’s very lonely. And so you always want somebody with you. Somebody. And so I felt like if I got married, I felt like I would always have somebody. But that’s not how life works. That’s not how it goes.
“It’s a bad reason to get married! Not the right one. The wrong one! The right one is when you find somebody who really makes you better.”
In an interview with Elle published in January, Lopez said the couple postponed the wedding twice. “We had planned what we really, really wanted to do, [but] I don't know if we'll be able to re-create that,” she said. "We canceled it, and since then we haven't really talked about it. There's no rush. We want to do it right when we can do it.”
Last May, Lopez admitted she was “a little heartbroken” about having to put the nuptials on hold due to the pandemic. “There’s no planning right now,” the singer told Today from the home in Coral Gables, Florida where she was quarantining with her fiancé and their children. “You just have to kind of wait to see how this all plays out.”
Lopez said “it’s a little disappointing” to be in limbo. “I’m a little heartbroken because we did have some great plans but I’m also like, you know what, God has a bigger plan so we just have to wait and see."
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, pictured in 2020. Ari Perilstein / Getty Images
Lopez ended her marriage to Ojani Noa in 1998 after 11 months and her nine-month marriage to dancer Cris Judd ended in 2002. Her engagement to actor Ben Affleck ended in 2003. Lopez married singer Marc Anthony in June 2004 and the couple welcomed twins Max and Emme in 2008 but announced their split three years later.
Rodriguez married Cynthia Scurtis in 2002 and the couple had daughters Natasha and Ella. Scurtis filed for divorce in 2008 alleging that Rodriguez cheated.