Jennifer Garner makes rare comment about ex-husband Ben Affleck as she opens up on impact on kids
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have remained close as co-parents.
Since their divorce in 2018, the pair have advocated putting their three kids first and are regularly pictured together at family and school events.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 54-year-old admitted that Affleck, 53, is an ‘incredible’ dad who now looks after their kids Violet, 20, Fin, 17, and Samuel, 14, while she’s at work.
Garner intentionally put her career on hold when the kids were younger, but now that they’re a bit older, ‘they can stay with their dad’.
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It allowed her to star in TV adaptation The Five Star Weekend, based on Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel.
“He’s wonderful. He takes care of them. He’s a great partner in that way. And so that’s very freeing,” she said.
The Daredevil actor went on to say that she doesn’t regret prioritizing her children ahead of her career when they were younger.
“There is a time in your life where you just do get caught up in all of that,” she explains. “And that’s okay. Nothing is forever. That’s a season. And it’s a beautiful thing. And I wouldn’t trade a minute of it. But I feel like my kids are a little bigger [now]. Their dad has become this incredible co-parent.”
She added: “When they were younger, I wouldn’t have done a couple of weeks away without taking them with me. Now they’re [older]. You can’t really do that anymore. But I can [go off solo and film because of the co-parenting relationship].”
Garner and Affleck met while working together on Pearl Harbor in 2001 and Daredevil in 2003.
Just a year after dating, the pair got married in 2004 and separated in 2015.
The 13 Going on 30 star has since been in a long-term relationship with businessman John Miller, chairman of CaliGroup.
Affleck, meanwhile, has not publicly confirmed a new relationship after finalizing his divorce from Jennifer Lopez.
The Five Star Weekend features Hollis Shaw (played by Garner), a grieving widow who invites her best friends from different stages of her life to her Nantucket house for a weekend to distract her.
Other characters include her childhood ‘sis’ Tatum (played by Chloë Sevigny), college roommate Dru-Ann (played by Regina Hall), mom group friend Brooke (played by D’Arcy Carden), and social media friend Gigi (played by Gemma Chan).
“They were the perfect scene partners for that, and the perfect friends for it,” she said. “They really held me through that and through all we did with each other.”
Season 1 of The Five Star Weekend season is available to watch now on Peacock.
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Anish Vij