Ben Affleck And Jennifer Lopez Have Similar Upbringing

Ben Affleck believes he’s grown closer to fiance Jennifer Lopez as he’s realized “we’re much more similar, including our upbringing, than people imagine.” He explained to The New York Daily News: “The way we grew up,” he Irish in Boston, she Puerto Rican in the Bronx, both of them public-school, middle-class kids – “we were exposed to lots of different cultures. If you juxtapose our relationship to the ones we had earlier, you’d see that I was really much more different from Gwyneth [Paltrow], this blond, upper-class, private-school girl from the upper East Side, and Jen from [Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs], who was this Horatio Alger kind of black guy who raised himself up the way he did.”