{"id":266931,"date":"2019-02-06T12:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1012201"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:58:29","slug":"jennifer-garner-reflects-on-starting-a-family-with-ben-affleck-while-surrounded-by-paparazzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jennifer-garner-reflects-on-starting-a-family-with-ben-affleck-while-surrounded-by-paparazzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner Reflects on Starting a Family With Ben Affleck While &#8220;Surrounded by Paparazzi&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.787234042553\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2013124\/634.JGarner.BenAffleck.mh.022413.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, Oscars 2013\" alt=\"Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, Oscars 2013\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jason Merritt\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.964601769912\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_garner\">Jennifer Garner<\/a><\/strong> is opening up about family life and adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Globe winner, who\u00a0has\u00a0three kids with ex-husband <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ben_affleck\">Ben Affleck<\/a><\/strong>, reflects on starting a family with the actor in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jennifer-garner-enrique-olvera-and-more-on-adaptation-11549461600\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ. Magazine<\/a>&#8216;s<\/em>\u00a0March Women&#8217;s Style Issue, out Feb. 16. As a featured columnist, Garner was asked to weigh in on the subject of adaptation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you adapt your career to your life? That&#8217;s a big question,&#8221; Garner writes. &#8220;Becoming someone who is well known requires an enormous adaptation. Who am I now? How do I go through the world? Then there&#8217;s having children and, in my case, a career that&#8217;s a very selfish one. The combination of those things is the largest adaptation of all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;When I had kids,\u2028 I started considering how jobs worked for my family,&#8221;\u00a0Garner, who gave birth to her first child with Affleck in 2005, continues. &#8220;How much am I going to ask of my partner and kids? What&#8217;s worth it and what isn&#8217;t?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.335320417288\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018720\/rs_634x899-180820134959-634-jennifer-garner-violet-seraphina-samuel.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jennifer Garner, Samuel Garner Affleck, Violet Affleck, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck\" alt=\"Jennifer Garner, Samuel Garner Affleck, Violet Affleck, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Vince Flores\/startraksphoto.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.849765258216\">\n<p>&#8220;Something Ben [Affleck] and I used to say to each other all the time is, &#8216;We have to adapt.&#8217; We were surrounded by paparazzi. There were so many things you wouldn&#8217;t expect,&#8221; Garner writes. &#8220;We&#8217;d be left alone more at Disneyland than we would at a park \u2028in Santa Monica. But if you love something, you&#8217;ll do whatever you need to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garner and Affleck, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/974433\/ben-affleck-and-jennifer-garner-finalize-their-divorce\" target=\"_blank\">finalized their divorce<\/a> in late 2018, share kids <strong>Violet<\/strong>, 13,\u00a0<strong>Seraphina<\/strong>, 10,\u00a0<strong>Samuel<\/strong>, 6. While the exes try their best to keep their children out of the spotlight,\u00a0the trio did make a rare public appearance to see\u00a0their mom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/961597\/jennifer-garner-s-kids-make-rare-public-appearance-at-her-hollywood-walk-of-fame-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\">get her star<\/a> on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in August.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1012201\/jennifer-garner-reflects-on-starting-a-family-with-ben-affleck-while-surrounded-by-paparazzi?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Merritt\/Getty Images Jennifer Garner is opening up about family life and adaptation. The Golden Globe winner, who\u00a0has\u00a0three kids with ex-husband Ben Affleck, reflects on starting a family with the actor in\u00a0WSJ. Magazine&#8216;s\u00a0March Women&#8217;s Style Issue, out Feb. 16. As a featured columnist, Garner was asked to weigh in on the subject of adaptation.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 04:13:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}