Dancing With the Stars’ Jen Affleck Tearfully Reacts to Her Elimination

For Jen—who shares kids Nora, 3, Lucas, 2, and Penelope, 8 months, with husband Zac Affleck—she’s leaving the ballroom with one more family member in her dance partner.

“Honestly, he’s become almost like family,” Jen said. “My kids talk about him all day, every single day. That’s how much everyone loves him and clearly the world loves him too. I just feel so grateful that he was able to be my partner.”

For Jan—who was one of Taylor’s Eras Tour dancers—he’s happy with the way their journey ended.

“She worked so hard for this performance, and you could see that,” the pro told E! News. “When I was watching the footage back, I was like, ‘She killed it, she couldn’t do better.’ You did everything, I’m so happy.”

“Even if we are going home, we are going home with a good performance,” Jan added. “And it’s not in our mind, ‘Oh we could do better.’ Because we did everything. We and left the entire love and passion on the stage and we are going home happy and grateful for everything.”

As for Jen, she’s never going to shake off the feeling of ending her DWTS run to the tune of Taylor Swift.

“Not only were we able to end off very strong and on a good note, I feel like I was able to fulfill almost like a dream of mine,” Jen said. “The fact that I was able to dance to a Taylor Swift song, with one of Taylor Swift’s amazing dancers, I mean that’s a win right there.”