Jen Affleck Has been married to Zac Affleck Since 2019, but it wasn’t until she made her Secret lives of Mormon wives Debut that learned that it is not related to Ben Affleck.
“Oh my God, I’m still surprised,” Jen, 25, reveals exclusively in Us WeeklyThe cover story, admitting that “is still confused” that there is no biological connection between the husband and the Oscar winner, 52.
Duration 1 of the Hulu series, Jen said that Zac was Ben and Casey Affleck. She revealed in the program that Zac’s father, David AffleckHe is second cousins with the famous actors.
Once the episodes were issued in September 2024, Jen’s claims were questioned. The star of reality, who is pregnant with her and Zac’s third baby, just said User The moment she never had with Ben despite the supposed connection.
“Hopefully we will meet soon because we are familiar,” Jen said at that time. “My husband’s father is the second cousin with Ben Affleck, so we are quite remote. We have never with him. Zac’s father has a long time ago.”
Not all Jen’s co -star were convinced that the family connection was in a certain fact. Jessi Ngatikaura He confessed in September 2024, “I could see a world where Zac told her that, and she believed it because why would you?”

“I don’t think it’s about that. I really don’t do it, but maybe he could,” said Jessi, 32, in an episode of Shay ShayThe “Scheananigans” podcast. “I mean, we have seen a bit of how it can be.” (The ups and downs of Jen and Zac are developed in season 1, including a great fight on it by watching the chippendal show on a girl’s trip).
Jessi added: “But also perhaps Ben Affleck says:” We don’t want to have anything to do with you. “So we fall and, as, let’s raise this story because Zac looks a small bath.”
Duration 2 of the Hulu series, which opens on Thursday, May 15, the famous affiliations of Jen and Zac will be a subject again. The debate couple disguise themselves as Ben and ex -wife Jennifer López For a Halloween party that appears in an upcoming episode to make fun of the rumors surrounding his family.
While discussing costumes, Zac says that his family only said they were related to Ben “like a joke” and nobody touched it “seriously” until Jen talked about that publicly.
“I have no idea if I am or not related to Ben Affleck and that had been, like a joke in my family,” Zac admits in a confessional through People. “It is never a somewhat serious leg. And so, when Jen began to tell people who, I said:” I don’t think you should say that. I think that is likely to be counterproductive. “
Jen, on the other hand, defends his statement that he was told that Ben was part of the extended family from the moment he said: “I do.”
“That is something we have really talked about where we are,” expect, we need to solve this “and have a conversation with his family,” says Jen Exclusive. User. “I have only said Bone throughout the marriage, so maybe [it’s not a lie]I don’t know. It is still confusing for me. “
The secret life of Mormon wives Season 2 premieres in Hulu on Thursday, May 15.
For more information about the history of Jen and Zac before season 2, choose the last issue of Us WeeklyIn the kiosks now.