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Jennifer Garner Details Navigating Grief 7 Months After Death of Her Dad William Garner
Jennifer Garner is paying tribute to her beloved furry friend.
The 13 Going connected 30 prima shared that her canine Birdie died soon aft falling sick connected Nov. 21.
"It is hard to cognize however to constitute this," Jennifer began successful a Nov. 27 Instagram post. "It seems nuts, fixed the world, to mourn a pet, but since we person shared Birdie with each of you, it lone seems just to fto you cognize of her passing."
The 52-year-old—who shares kids Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, with ex-husband Ben Affleck—said she realized the Golden Retriever was sick erstwhile she stopped eating her food.
"Birdie fto america cognize connected Thursday that she wasn’t feeling herself (a renowned foodie, Birdie ne'er missed a meal)," Jen continued. "We were amazed to larn that, not lone was she precise ill, she was astatine the extremity of her life."
And determination was a bittersweet crushed Jennifer's veterinarian believed the pup waited until Thanksgiving clip to fto go, suggesting it could person had to bash with Violet returning from Yale University, wherever she enrolled arsenic a freshman this past fall.
"The vet told america that dogs often bent connected until their idiosyncratic comes location from college," Jen explained, "and we judge Birdie did conscionable that, truthful that we could favored her brushed ears unneurotic and convey her for being the world’s champion dog."
And portion their beloved doggo is nary longer with them, the Alias alum—who posted a carousel of photos and videos of her spending prime clip with Birdie implicit the years alongside her message—said she volition ne'er hide each of the joyousness she brought to her life.
"Birdie loved to beryllium work to, ever recovered her mode into a Pretend Cooking Show, and knew conscionable however to springiness radical what they needed (as evidenced by her blessed days arsenic a canine therapy squad with Mo)," Jen shared. "She lived a blessed canine beingness and is present successful the relation she was calved to play: angel girl."
She added, "It’s a acquisition to emotion and beryllium loved by specified a carnal arsenic Birdie the Doggie."
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Following Jen's saccharine tribute, friends of the histrion offered their condolences and support.
"Oh Jen... I’m truthful sorry. Sending truthful overmuch love," pal Jennifer Aniston commented connected the post, portion Erin Andrews wrote, "Oh no!!!!"
Meanwhile, Tracee Ellis Ross added, "These furry beings bring truthful overmuch goodness."
For much times Jennifer has provided penetration into her beingness arsenic a mom, support reading.
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United Front
When it comes to co-parenting, Jennifer Garner volition ever support a cordial narration with her ex-husband Ben Affleck for the involvement of their children: Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.
“It’s not Ben’s occupation to marque maine happy," Garner shared successful a 2016 Vanity Fair interview. "The main happening is these kids―and we’re wholly successful enactment with what we anticipation for them."
She continued, "Sure, I mislaid the imagination of dancing with my hubby astatine my daughter’s wedding. But you should spot their faces erstwhile helium walks done the door. And if you spot your kids emotion idiosyncratic truthful purely and wholly, past you’re going to beryllium friends with that person.”
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Humble Beginnings
Though she and Affleck are some palmy actors, Garner doesn't privation their kids to unrecorded wrong a Hollywood bubble.
"It's truly important for my kids to spot that everyone doesn’t person the lives they spot successful Los Angeles," she told Southern Living. "That doesn’t bespeak the remainder of the world. I privation them to turn up with the Southern values I had―to look astatine radical erstwhile they accidental hullo and to halt and odor the roses."
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Model Behavior
And that's wherefore her parenting benignant is precise hands-on.
“I deliberation teaching your kids thing is simply a lifelong occupation and surely values are something―you can’t conscionable say, ‘Here, person values!’" she antecedently told E! News. "You person to amusement them that you person values."
Explaining however mounting a bully illustration is the "most important job," the Alias alum added that she and Affleck—who she split with successful 2015 aft 10 years of marriage—hope that their kids "see and admit the enactment we do."
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Go With the Flow
Of course, determination is nary 1 modular mode of parenting.
“As overmuch arsenic you deliberation that, ’OK, I’m going to travel what this idiosyncratic says,'" Garner noted during a 2016 quality connected Late Night With Seth Meyers, "it’s not up to you, dude."
Advising parents to "let it go" erstwhile it comes to their worries, the 13 Going connected 30 prima continued, "You’re going to struggle. It’s going to suck—just similar for everyone else."
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Parenting With Purpose
For Garner, the cardinal to maintaining a bully operation for her kids is mounting up boundaries and rules.
"You conscionable person to bash it," she explained to Us Weekly. "It’s not pretty. I don’t deliberation that I’m ever the champion astatine it, but I effort my champion to beryllium accordant and for them to cognize what they tin expect from me."
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No Worries
And erstwhile she does experience a roadblock successful her parenting journey, Garner believes "every time is simply a caller start."
"You ever tin say, ‘Today, we’re going to effort this!'" she told People. "And if it goes horribly, you tin say, ‘Today, we’re throwing that out, and we’re trying this!’"
The histrion added, "That’s portion of what I similar astir being a ma successful general."
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Mom Life
Garner's motherhood joyousness extends into the cinematic beingness arsenic well.
"I’m truly gladsome that I’m playing moms," she told Today, "because there’s nary much affluent clip successful women’s lives than erstwhile you person your babies."
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