Everyone loves Jennifer Garner, or so it seems. She does seem cute and nice, though I once saw her on the Tonight Show and she came across as pretty ditzy. Maybe she was having an off night. Or maybe Ben Affleck doesn’t check his potential spouse’s IQ scores. I’m guess the former… or not. Alright I know I’m going to get yelled at, so I think she’s lovely, and if nothing else very down to earth and not too Hollywood. Garner recently gave an interview to “Marie Claire” in which she talked about how much she loves motherhood, despite her boobs sending her to the hospital as a direct result of her baby daughter Violet. That’s right, the kid is clearly out to get her.

“Garner nursed Violet during the filming of ‘The Kingdom,’ co-starring Jamie Foxx, which opens in theaters Friday. Garner says she found herself staggered by the heat on the Arizona set.

“‘I checked with a pediatrician, I checked with my gynecologist,’ she recalls, ‘and they said, “Breast-feeding? You’ll be fine. Just drink plenty of water.” But the rules when it’s 138 degrees are different. … It sent me to the hospital a couple of times.’

“‘I guess I was getting heatstroke,’ she says. ‘All my electrolytes were going to the baby – I wasn’t keeping any of the potassium in my body.’

“‘I made it through, though,’ says Garner, who nursed Violet for 14 months. ‘I really didn’t want to give up, and I didn’t.’”

[From the Washington Post]

So Jennifer Garner goes to the hospital with “heatstroke” and no one reports on it, but all those other celeb tartlets have to go to the ER for “exhaustion” and it’s all over the tabloids? So not fair, you know it wasn’t heatstroke, she was soused. I kid, I kid, she’s clearly a super devoted mother. Garner also says her job is great because it lets her be a devoted mother, while working in relatively short, concentrated bursts.

“Jennifer Garner, who stars in the upcoming film, ‘The Kingdom,’ says she’s grateful that she can balance her career with motherhood.

“‘My job is great to have as a mom,’ she tells Marie Claire magazine in its October issue. ‘I get to take long breaks and then work hard in a really concentrated way.’

“Garner wed Ben Affleck in June 2005. Their daughter, Violet, will be 2 on Dec. 1.

“‘She’s pretty awesome. We’re in that sweet spot before the `terrible twos,'” the 35-year-old actress says. ‘We definitely wonder what it would be like to have another – hopefully, knock on wood, someday.’”

[From the Washington Post]

Aww, how sweet. Violet is an extra cute baby. Which is kind of hard to do, it’s like being an extra-fluffy cloud or something. Although with jeans like that, what can you expect. Of all the celebrity babies born in the last few years, I’m putting my money on Violet Affleck as the most likely to come out relatively normal. I know Ben has some issues, but they don’t seem that big and Jennifer seems like a normalizing force in Ben’s life, and likely Violet’s too.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Jennifer Garner and Violet are shown in Brentwood, CA on 8/20 thanks to Splash News.