Another year, another story about how Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner spend holidays together for their kids. They’ve consistently told us that they do this, and I wonder how that is for them sometimes. It’s probably a mixed bag in that they’ve done it for so long that it’s familiar, but your ex is your ex for a reason. Here’s that report in People Magazine, which is the PR song we’ve heard from them for years.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner spent Thanksgiving together!
Affleck and Garner, both 47, reunited on Thursday for the holiday, which they spent with their three children — Violet, 13; Seraphina, 10 and Samuel, 7 — as well as his mother in Los Angeles.
“They all celebrated Thanksgiving together. It’s very important for both Jennifer and Ben that they celebrate all the holidays together as a family,” a source tells PEOPLE.
“Ben looks great. He returned to L.A. to have a fun Thanksgiving with his kids,” a separate insider says, adding that “they all took the kids to the movies.”
I wonder what movie they saw and would bet it was Frozen 2. Good for them. I still spend some holidays with my ex, but not all of them as he lives in Germany. It might be easier if he lived down the block, although maybe not. Compare Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s announcement to how Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon posted Thanksgiving photos together with their twins and Mariah’s young boyfriend. That’s kind of badass, although Mariah threw a huge Thanksgiving party and is in no way comparable to Jennifer Garner or just about anyone really.
Jennifer also got a special message from Julie Andrews, who called her from the set of Katie Couric’s podcast. I saw the recording of that moment on ET Canada, that’s below, and Jen got overwhelmed in that moment. Last month she posted video of herself crying while watching The Sound of Music and this month she got a personal call from Julie. I guess Katie Couric had Jennifer’s number and set it up. That must be an awesome perk of being famous, that you’re one degree of separation away from anyone you want to meet. The downside is that everyone knows your business and you have to keep up appearances, although Garner is particularly skilled at that. There are photos of them from Friday having what appears to be an intense conversation/argument though.
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Here’s that video of Julie Andrews calling Jennifer. It’s queued up to where that part starts.
Photos credit: WENN and Backgrida
Have we heard anything about Jen and her new guy lately? I’m wondering if she’s single again.
A DM poster mentioned last week that there were photo agency pics of John Miller having dinner with a blonde and then going back to his house with her. The poster had the exact title that went with the pics and the photo agency name, but I don’t remember it. I’m guessing Garner is no longer with Miller, but who knows.
His colleague Virginia Dadey was with him. It seems the priority of j.garner,s life are her children.
Oh man, I love those pics outside the truck! It looks like Ben was yapping, you know, like a man does, and Jen told him, “shut up dummy”, because in the next shot he is just standing their staring, almost open mouthed, and she has walked right past him.
I really hope she said that because I think she is still enabling him to an extent.
The Daily Vile subtext to these pictures of them supposedly arguing is that Ben is still drinking: they say after this she drove him in his car to a starbucks, then to a ‘remote’ hotel…However, next day he is seen with his mother and family again.
The truth is probably somewhere in between the Fail’s melodrama and People’s happy family fairy tail
edit: fairy *tale*.
I loved the reference to her driving him to a ‘remote’ hotel….it sounded like something sinister was afoot
his body language….the victim…why are you being so mean to me when i’m tryiiiiiing??? Can’t you see how hard I’m trying???
Nothing is better than last year when she was driving him to his like 25th rehab stint and he was sitting in the back of her car and she seemed to annoyingly shove Jack in the Box at him after going through the drive through. Lol
I imagine there is still some tension between them, but it’s nice for their kids they can all be together. But I hope it’s not at the expense of Jen moving on with her life.
The guilt she has over exposing her children to this schmuck is palpable. She married someone with an addiction and mental health problems. She wants him to live for their children’s sake and feels she must continue to support him to facilitate this but appears to be internally seething all the time.
He is bad for her health. But to be honest, she must have known by the time the second kid was born that Ben is NOT the one to be married to or have kids with. He has too many issues…yet she had ANOTHER child with him ! Yes, please bring one more human in to this mess.
We cannot always control when we get pregnant @ME………
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Their son wasn’t an “oopsie baby”. They reportedly were trying for a boy. I personally think it’s just irresponsible to bring another child into a relationship they knew was toxic.
I used to think she was still in love with him. Now it seems like she hates his guts.
Unpopular opinion – JG bugs. I wish she’d be scandalous herself for once. be seen out with multiple hot dudes, black eye makeup, get a tattoo and hair extensions and ride a motorcycle lol I don’t know, she’s so Disney.
I just spent thanksgiving weekend with a recently divorced couple and their kids. They hosted thanksgiving like they always have, nothing awkward or tense, only difference was he left every night to go to his own house. They even got out the Christmas tree and started decorating it together. It’s possible.
He is a sexual abuser and she likes to star in movies that can only be describes as anti-latino propaganda. They are awful people, him moreso than her obviously.
Can you elaborate on the “anti-latino propaganda”? What are you referring to?
@ME, I’m talking about Peppermint, an ignorant, racist drug-trade revenge movie Garner did. A white lady’s husband and daughter are killed and she decides to take revenge by cleaning up an hispanic neighborhood and taking on a Mexican cartel. It’s atrocious and inridebly irresponsible, especially in this political climate.
I’ve never heard of this movie. That is pretty effed up !
It wasn’t a blockbuster, thankfully.
I know she probably wanted to be an action star again and doesn’t get a ton of leading lady offers, but I still can’t believe she signed onto THAT.
I understand maybe spending holidays together for the sake of the children but I hope she lit into him outside the car. He’s a hot mess, he’s caused her so much pain and aggravation. Girl enough already.
This is off topic but – has anyone seen the video of Jennifer making bagels from scratch? Someone posted it on Twitter and it was SO funny. She’s not a fave of mine, but I think she gets a bad rap -unfairly so considering who she was married to and how she has has to navigate his issues.
Wow CB having an ex in another country no less must be extremely difficult. It makes what Jen has to through with her ex to make sure the kids keep a relationship up easy. I’m sure he’s back on supervised visits after the Halloween debacle. She’s been chauffeuring him to all their family outings recently, while he used to drive separately. The daily mail was hilarious this weekend saying Ben was flapping his arms at her during their argument, or whatever it was.
Co-parenting is getting redefined. I used to think this was good for the kids, now I’m not so sure. Jen and Ben seem codependent, enmeshed and it’s confusing. What kind of message is this sending to the kids?
As a divorced mom who also celebrated Thanksgiving with her former spouse and her current partner, I don’t think there’s any “right” way to handle coparenting. If Jen and Ben are codependent and unhealthy, that’s true whether or not they celebrate holidays separately or together. The message they are sending to the kids is dysfunctional if they are dysfunctional, not if they celebrate holidays together or not.
It’s never been confusing for my kids (we are three years post split) because we have worked hard with a therapist and as individuals to create very healthy and clear boundaries. We even took our kids on vacation together. Never once has either child been confused, thought we were getting back together, or had a hard time figuring out our relationship dynamic. It’s always been Mom, Dad, and now Friend Dad (what they refer to him as to other people, to him they just use his first name.)
Rambling, but whatever coparenting dynamic anyone chooses is good for the kids as long as the adults are being mature and healthy and transparent. I don’t think Ben fulfills those requirements, which is the only reason I think this arrangement might not work. But mostly, I suspect the kids see their mom as trying her best to extend grace to a deeply flawed human. My kids are just a bit younger than hers, and I know they see our family in a similar way.
That “report” from People is so basic, it’s like someone looking at the pap pics and making some vague statements.
If they can’t spend a few hours on a holiday together without getting into a screaming match outside, they should probably do what many other divorced people do and split holidays. Kids pick up on that tension. Jen is so desperate these days. It’s not a good look.
Wow, that header photo looks like something straight out of 2003. Please tell me that isn’t a recent photo of JG.
I believe once Samuel hits that age where the angst and his decision making skills get better, Jen will be done.
Teens for the most part are not stupid when it comes to parents and their proclivities. Soon it is gonna be not seeing Ben for one weekend a month to not seeing him for months at a time.
I really think Jen is just biding time and letting the kids make their own decision. I will say this for her, she is trying to keep him alive long enough to do that.
Agree, that happens and it looks by photo assumption that Violet has checked out on him already.
I wonder what they were arguing about?
Fighting in the street, swearing at the paps outside of church… I think we all just caught a glimpse of their extra-sh*tty relationship. It has to be so tense in that house, what is the point of this? Jen so desperately wants to keep up with Goop but she’s failing miserably.
They went to church together after that, and also went to get a Christmas tree together, so I think Jen recovered just fine. I’m guessing John Miller has already bought a one-way ticket out of this entire situation.
Say what you want about Jen Garner, but to say she goes above and beyond for the father of her children is just putting it mildly.
Their children clearly love their dad…he’s just dad to them, after all!
When Jen is spending time with Ben & their children for the holidays/ birthdays, don’t you think Jon is also spending time with his ex-wife & their children? Don’t think for one moment that Jon’s children like BOTH of their parents with them , also?
I really hope that they were not arguing because Ben showed up drunk, but Jen drove him to Starbucks & to a hotel ( per DM) for a reason.
I can only imagine holidays with all the parties would make it extremely difficult for an admitted alcoholic to stay sober.
I will say that Jen seems still have a good relationship with Ben’s mom& their children seem to love their grandmother!