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Why Jennifer Garner Loves Her "Peppermint" Character
While it's been astir 2 decades since Jennifer Garner has starred connected Alias, she inactive finds herself taking connected antithetic missions—including keeping her kids disconnected societal media.
"I conscionable said to my kids, 'Show maine the articles that beryllium that societal media is bully for teenagers, and past we'll person the conversation,'" the actress—who shares kids Violet, 17; Seraphina, 14; and Samuel, 11, with ex-husband Ben Affleck—said connected the April 11 occurrence of Today. "Find technological grounds that matches what I person that says that it's not bully for teenagers, past we'll chat."
As for however Garner's children consciousness astir not being connected the apps? "My eldest is grateful," she replied. "And we'll see. I mean, it's a agelong haul. I person a mates much to go, truthful conscionable sound connected wood. We'll spot if I truly bent successful there."
Garner, 50, doesn't station pictures of her children connected her ain societal media channels, either.
"Well, I would ne'er stock my kids," the 13 Going connected 30 alum explained to E! News successful 2018. "That's a beauteous large roadblock close there….I've fought excessively hard for their privateness personally that it feels weird."
However, Garner has made a fewer nationalist appearances with her kids, specified arsenic by sitting courtside with lad Samuel astatine a Los Angeles Lakers crippled successful March and attending the White House State Dinner with girl Violet successful December.
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And recently, fans got immoderate penetration into however she and Affleck—who finalized their divorcement successful 2018—continue to enactment arsenic a squad to rise their children, with his woman Jennifer Lopez telling Vogue successful November that Garner is "an astonishing co-parent, and they enactment truly good together."
Affleck has besides praised Garner arsenic a parent. "Parenting is hard work, but it's truthful rewarding," the Oscar winner, 50, told E! News successful 2016 about a twelvemonth aft they archetypal announced their split. "And I surely bash my best. Jen is simply a superhero mom. She's an astonishing mother, and I'm truly fortunate to person her arsenic a spouse to co-parent these kids with. We effort our best, we enactment them archetypal and that's what we do."
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