Jennifer Garner’s Excellent Parenting Skills?, ?And Ben Affleck? Talks Life After? Divorce
Jennifer Garner and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice star Ben Affleck announced their divorce in June of 2015, and both have recently opened up and revealed how they are dealing with it. Thankfully, this has turned out to be a fairly healthy public celebrity divorce, and the two are said to still be good friends. Affleck and Garner specifically always remain in good spirits when they come together for the sake of their children.
Ben Affleck recently praised his ex Jennifer Garner, as well as her wonderful parenting skills, during an appearance on CBS This Morning.
“I am a giant fan of Jennifer,” Affleck said. “She’s just a fabulous person. She’s just a wonderful person. She’s a great mother. She’s a real talent.”
“She’s just so good at doing that and has set such a good example and a lead that I follow,” Ben said. “She’s somebody that I admire and respect and remain excellent friends with.”
Even Ellen DeGeneres admires how the two are able to consistently make time to be a family together, a sentiment she revealed to Affleck, who appeared on Ellen’s show to promote Batman v Superman.
“Life doesn’t always turn out exactly the way you want,” Affleck continued. “We’re doing our very best and we’re putting our kids first and that’s how we’re focusing on our day to day lives and we don’t know what the future’s going to hold, but each step that we take is one where we prioritize our children and everything else comes seconds.”
“It’s a shame because I have a 4-year-old son and of all my kids, he hates them the most,” Jennifer Garner told Oz. “Every time he sees the cameras, which is still every day, he says, ‘I don’t like that. I don’t like men with cameras, and I don’t like being laughed at’.”
The Miracles From Heaven star is often letting Sam know that those pesky men with cameras are too far away to be able to touch him.
Jennifer Garner also let Vanity Fair know a host of things about her personal life, including her marriage, in an interview that took place earlier this year. In regards to the Christine Ouzounian nanny scandal, Garner explained that she and Affleck had already been separated for months, prior to hearing about the rumors of Ben’s affair. According to Jennifer, Ouzounian had nothing to do with the couple getting divorced.
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Jennifer has tried to stay away from all of the media scrutiny and speculation, by completely staying away from the internet. Not because she doesn’t care, but rather, finds it painful to see and read all of these stories. Jennifer admits that Ben can be a “complicated guy,” and never really specifically denied Ben’s alleged affair with the nanny. Though Affleck himself has denied the allegations.
Sources at Us Weekly were making inconsistent claims about the couple and whether or not Ben actually cheated on Jennifer. One source claimed that Ben was never unfaithful, while another stated that Affleck was kicked out of the house, temporarily. Apparently the two had been on the brink of ending the marriage several times, but Garner was always trying her hardest to keep the marriage together.
You can see Ben Affleck in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which is now playing in theaters. You can see Jennifer Garner in the faith-based film, and true story, Miracles From Heaven, which is also currently in theaters.
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