You might have noticed that ever since Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got back together, there have been quite a few stories about them living their lives together. They take their kids on outings! They are on this coast and now they’re on that one! Here they are sharing a kiss on a yacht far away from either coast! Every day a new adventure, a new moment in which Ben or Jen or both walk outside.
What’s even a momentous occasion for these two when you follow their quotidian existence? This outfit is beautiful, you note, but then, so are all of them. This T-shirt is advertising Boston sports somehow, but then again, most of them are.
And then there’s a photo like the one published on Monday afternoon—one where Ben is…browsing. Browsing in the vicinity of rings at Tiffany with his mother and his son, Samuel. And on the same day that the Beyoncé and Jay-Z ad for Tiffany dropped no less! Pretty extraordinary. One wonders what exactly he was browsing for. Could there be a cataclysmic story coming soon in the daily life and times updates of two superstars in love? Or was he simply…browsing.
Here at Vanity Fair we’re not in the business of jinxing anything, so we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that he could have been purchasing, you know, a pair of diamond earrings or a promise ring or even a lovely tennis bracelet (did you hear? Preppy style is back). They sell all sorts of things at Tiffany! They have a $125,000 chess set on offer! He could have been shopping for a new hobby!
You have to think that a man of Ben’s position in the world could quietly procure an extraordinary ring without browsing at all. So maybe this is extraordinary because there’s Ben at a mall with his family at all, just like you or I might be. Batman browsing in plain sight! What a concept!
For what it’s worth, the last ring Ben proposed to Jen with was a 6.1-carat pink diamond courtesy of Harry Winston, worth at the time an estimated $2.5 million, and, per Page Six’s diamond expert, $4 million today. So would he even need a new ring should the thing which is not yet speakable were to be spoken? It’s a nice message even. Diamonds can appreciate, and maybe so can love.
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