In a pre-taped episode of Ellen, Jennifer Garner is talking about being pregnant for the third time and how great everything is in her life. Which… I mean, I hope for her sake that she and Ben Affleck are a lot stronger than I think they are. I hope they both are looking forward to this baby. I hope they’re both committed to their family. Garner doesn’t confirm the gender of the baby, and she also makes it sound like she doesn’t really care if it’s a boy or a girl – contrary to reports throughout the years that Ben really, really wants a boy. Here’s more:

Violet, Seraphina and…Daisy Duck? Expecting her third child with husband Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner opens up for the first time about her pregnancy — and its pitfalls — on Tuesday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“The first trimester is just yuck,” the Arthur actress, 39, tells Ellen DeGeneres. “Kind of an all day sickness.”

“But after that, [this pregnancy] is not a big thing except there is one big thing,” Garner says, “And that is, my bottom.”

Explains the star: “You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.”

Married for five years, Garner and Affleck, 39, have daughters Violet, 4, and Seraphina, 2; they confirmed they were expecting again in late August. “So the other day… [Violet] is in there with me and all of the sudden she went, Oh Mom, we have to have a talk…She said, ‘Mom, your bottom has gotten so big that your panties don’t even begin to cover it.”

The Alias actress cleared up the confusion with her eldest: “I said, ‘It’s called a thong, you wear it when you’re a grown up. She was like, ‘Uh, that is so gross!”

Meanwhile, Violet and her little sister Seraphina “have a lot of opinions” on their sibling-to-be, Garner says. “They don’t really care about the gender as much as long as we name it what they it to be named.”

Some of the cuties’ suggestions? “Ralphie, Frankie, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck. Rosemarie.. Daisy Duck Affleck. I can see us going that way,” Garner cracked, laughing.

As for the Hollywood couple’s own hopes for their baby-to-be’s gender, “Obviously we’d be happy either way,” Garner says. “It would be so weird to have a boy and cool and different. And I’m sure it would be fun for Ben he likes baseball and all that stuff. But a third girl, three girls is a great way to grow up.” (Garner herself grew up with two sisters.)

For now, Affleck is content playing not baseball but “baby doll” with his little girls. “My husband plays a lot of baby doll. He is really cute,” Garner gushes. “I will walk in and he will be sitting on a little chair. He’s so tall! And he’ll have a baby doll and I’ll say, ‘What are you doing?’ ‘I’m watching Frankie (the baby doll) here.”

[From Us Weekly]

Oh, I could totally see Ben and Jen naming a third girl Rosemarie or Daisy. Either of those names would fit in perfectly with “Seraphina” and “Violet”. So maybe that’s the signal… she’s having another girl? I think Garner would probably love another girl. And Ben would just have to deal with being permanently covered in glitter and doll hair.

Also – I’m thinking that Jennifer is doing Ellen’s show because she’s promoting her new film, Butter, where she plays the wife of Ty Burrell’s character. Apparently, her character is less than sweet-as-pie, which Jennifer recently discussed with Entertainment Weekly. You can read the full interview here, but this quote was one I found of particular interest: “The whole point of being an actor is to play different roles. And I don’t think that I’ve been pigeonholed — I feel like I’ve gotten to play a lot of different characters and do a lot of different things — but it did feel like, ‘Oh, I am feeling awfully nice these days.’ I’m ready to spin this around, you know? I’m a little over myself.” Thank God. The Don of the Hollywood Mother Mafia is finally ready to shake it up a bit.

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