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| | Is Jennifer Garner seeing a sex therapist? | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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There are cracks in one of Hollywood?s seemingly strong marriages. Star Magazine is reporting that Jennifer Garner is seeking help from a noted sex counselor/therapist named Dr. Holly Hein. Jen apparently ?checks in? with Dr. Hein every so often because Ben Affleck is ?very insecure? and likes Jen to ?play the devoted wife?. Still, the Star report seems to take pains to say that Jen is only going to this sex therapist because she wants her marriage to last. Here?s a question - if they have marriage problems that stem from emotional and behavioral issues, why not a traditional therapist? Why a ?sex therapist?? And why is Jen going alone?
Four years into her relationship with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner is seeing someone else: a sex counselor!
The 37-year-old actress has been spotted several times in recent weeks with noted author and therapist Dr. Holly Hein.
?Jennifer has had some ups and downs with Ben, and she likes to check in with Dr. Hein once in a while,? says a source.
They talk tips on keeping the romance alive and dealing with Ben?s need for attention.
?Ben?s great, but he can be very insecure. He likes Jen to play the devoted wife all the time,? the source explains.
Still, Jen?s more than willing to balance Ben, 36, two kids, a career and counseling. ?Jennifer doesn?t want to lose him. She?s in this for the long haul.?
From Star Magazine
I don?t believe the bulk of this. My guess is that someone, somewhere got a picture of Jennifer with Dr. Hein. And Star just made up a little story to go with a picture. Star is just looking to tarnish the image of a couple who is nearly universally liked. I do believe two pieces of the story though: I think Affleck is probably a bit insecure (and he may even have a wandering eye) and I think Garner is definitely ?in this for the long haul?. She?s vying to be the next ?America?s Sweetheart?, and sweethearts don?t have two divorces.
Note by Celebitchy: Garner was photographed out getting coffee with Hein on 12/30/08 (above) and outside her house on 3/31/09. Maybe they’re just friends.
Header photo credit: Bauergriffinonline. Jennifer Garner is also shown picking up Violet from school on 4/15/09. Credit: ODuran/Fame Pictures
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| | Jennifer Garner says Ben is bad with barrettes, good with chicken | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This is such a non-story, but it?s cute in any case. Jennifer Garner is talking about her life with Ben Affleck and their two little girls. Ben is one of those lazy dads who doesn?t really care about his daughter?s hair. Jen claims that when Ben does Violet?s hair, ?You can always tell when he has been at it, just two random barrettes hanging in there. It’s so sweet.? Can?t you just see that? Violet: ?Daddy, daddy, do my hair! With the pick barrettes, daddy!? Ben: ?Uh, okay, clip, clip. Is that good?? Violet: ?No!?
Jen is also talking about another one of my favorite subjects, food. Namely, chicken, the perfect food. Jen says her mother ?taught me how to stretch a roasted chicken to make three meals.? Three meals for a family of four (or three, since Seraphina is too little for solids)? Uh… neat trick. That must be one massive bird.
Jennifer Garner admits her 3-year-old daughter Violet’s hair sometimes looks messy. But it’s not her fault.
“Ben [Affleck] will do the school run. He dresses her and does her hair. It’s pretty funny,” she tells May’s InStyle (via Just Jared). “You can always tell when he has been at it, just two random barrettes hanging in there. It’s so sweet.”
As for herself, Garner, 37, says, “I never go nuts with my look. It’s easy to feel like you?ve gone into caricature territory when you do.”
These days, the actress adds, “I wear less makeup than earlier in my career, but I know a lot more about it now.”
She also says she’s learned a lot from her own mother, Patricia.
“She taught me to proof my yeast with a little bit of sugar ? which she learned from her mom, Violet,” she says. “And she also taught me how to stretch a roasted chicken to make three meals. Though Ben could eat an entire chicken in one sitting.”
[From US Magazine]
With one of those rotisserie chickens that you can get at the supermarket, I can maybe get it for four or five meals for myself, with the dog getting extras. I?m like Ben, though. If I?m hungry enough I could eat a lot of chicken.
Even though I usually don?t identify with Jennifer, I have to say that I?m with her on the make-up. When I was a teenager, and even into my early twenties, I used to wear a lot of make-up. But my skin changed in my mid-twenties, and now if I wear make-up I just feel greasy.
Here?s Jen and Violet on the way home from school on Monday. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .
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| | Jennifer Garner talks about why her marriage works; isn't sleeping | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here’s why I love Jennifer Garner: she’s beautiful, she’s talented, but she is also one of the most down to earth, real personalities in Hollywood. She seems like a great, hands-on mom, a devoted wife, and doesn’t let the Hollywood machine get to her. She goes out without makeup and wearing ratty underwear one day, then all made up and looking radiant on the red carpet the next. Jennifer says the reason why her marriage to Ben Affleck works is because she accepted him - faults and all - from day one, and never tried to “fix” him.
Second-time new mom Jennifer Garner returns to the big screen in the new romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with Matthew McConaughey. But in real life, her leading man is Ben Affleck, her husband of almost four years and dad to daughters Violet, 3, and Seraphina, 3 months.
“Ben is pretty ideal as far as I’m concerned,” says Jennifer. “I don’t think you could do any better. I don’t think there’s a lovelier person.”
And it’s a good thing Ben is so perfect to Jennifer, considering what she learned from her mother.
My mom’s solid piece of advice to my sisters was, ‘Never marry a guy thinking you can change him,’” says Jennifer, 37. “Don’t get in there and think you can start to tinker. So, I’m not a fixer.”
Q: How is it having two little girls in your household?
I’m certainly not sleeping. Violet was a good sleeper, typically. But now that there is a new baby, she wakes up when the baby wakes up. She wants me, too, so there are times when they are both up all the time.
Q: What do you do about it?
I go from one to the other all the time.
Q: What is the most appealing thing about the opposite sex?
As far as I’m concerned, the sexiest thing about a man is when he changes diapers. Maybe except for defusing a tantrum!
[From In Touch print version, April 20, 2009]
Can you imagine how different Ben Affleck’s life would be if he’d ended up marrying and having kids with Jennifer Lopez? Talk about a “fixer.” J.Lo tried to change Ben into a completely different person. I still remember that phase when he had the fake tan and the frosted tips and the Versace clothing. What a mess that was! Jennifer Garner is the anti J.Lo. And I have a lot of respect for that. And Violet just might be the cutest kid I’ve ever seen. Somehow, knowing that Jennifer is dealing with the same issues that all regular new moms face makes me like her even more.
Here’s Jennifer Garner giving Violet a piggy-back ride to the car after picking her up from school. I love her casual outfit, especially those comfy looking sneakers. Photo credits: Fame.
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| | Look its Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck!!! | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Seriously OMG WTF |
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Pacific Coast News Online
Jennifer Garner took her adorable 3 month old daughter Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck out for a walk today! OMG! Her second little flower looks just like her first one, Violet, but with darker hair! Too cute!
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| | Ben Affleck & Matt Damon: life-long bromance | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have the never-ending bromance. Don?t even try to say that those boys are gay either, because that is so 1998. More than a decade after their Oscar win for best screenplay, Ben and Matt?s friendship is still really solid. They?ve weathered high-profile relationships, The Jason Bourne trilogy, rehab, J-Lo. And now both men are happily married with two daughters each (and Matt is stepfather to a third girl).
Ben is starting to gear up for the promotional tour of State of Play. The film looks really, really good, but Affleck is barely in the trailer, so I?ve got to wonder how much the studio is going to put him front and center to sell this movie. Perhaps it?s part of Ben?s multi-year public relations strategy to ?rebrand? himself from stripper-loving, J-Lo engagin? film poison to happy, well-adjusted, loving family man, actor-director and humanitarian. It seems to be working, so kudos to his publicist.
Affleck sat down with People to talk friendship, marriage and whether he and Matt will actually work together again:
They were close childhood friends, collaborated on the script for 1997’s Good Will Hunting and then won Oscars for it. And even after Hollywood success and “ballooning” families, Ben Affleck says his friendship with Matt Damon has not only gotten stronger, with shared vacations, but they’re planning another movie together.
“It’s cool,” Affleck, 36, told PEOPLE of his and Damon’s enduring bond, which includes mixing and mingling with their wives and kids. Affleck has two daughters with wife Jennifer Garner while Damon, also 36, has two daughters with wife Luciana Barroso.
“We went on vacation last summer,” says Affleck, who plays a congressman opposite Russell Crowe in the new thriller State of Play. “It’s nice. It always has been. He’s got his family ballooning, and we’re doing okay ? it’s nice.”
With the two having never veered from their shared Boston upbringing, Affleck observes, “I think it would be the same for anybody. You’re friends when you are young, you have a certain life. Then in your 20s you have a different life. In your 30s you get married and have families.”
Given such a perspective, Affleck adds, “It’s a different kind of satisfaction being around your friends, the friends you grew up with. They have kids, have barbecues and that kind of deal. That is really satisfying, too. It’s one of the nice things about having friends for a long time.”
Equally nice is that, with recent arrival Seraphina Rose joining daughter Violet, 3, at home, Affleck says, “I am very lucky. I feel blessed to look around and see that I’ve got a healthy family and a job. Especially nowadays, you really feel very good.”
When it comes to being a dad, he’s mastered many of the duties ? including how to mash bananas properly ? that his wife was once worried would require supervision.
“I’m in a pretty good zone right now,” says PEOPLE’s 2002 Sexiest Man Alive. “I say that, and I’ll go home to find everything exploded, [but] so far, so good.”
All in all, he says, “I really am happy with what I’m doing now. In fact, I’ve never been at a place where I’ve felt better about going to work every day. I’m more engaged and very, very happy ? I’ve really gotten comfortable with the things that are important to me.”
“Matt is always pretty busy but claiming that he’s going to try and slow it down a little bit,” says his buddy. “He doesn’t mind taking a year to wait. I would love to, it’s great, and we’re both busy. Matt lives in Miami, so it’s hard to get a chance to see him. If we work together it’s an excuse to hang out.”
[From People Magazine]
It?s nice that Ben and Matt are still friends, and I like how the relationship has evolved over the years. Part of the reason I think the gay rumor got some traction was because they were always together back in the day. As they?ve grown up, they?re more like college buddies who plan family vacations together once a year.
I totally forgot that People named Ben Affleck as the Sexiest Man Alive in 2002. What were they thinking? Ah, back when Affleck when hot stuff. The halcyon days of 2002. Brings a tear to my eye.
Here?s Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso hosting an Obama fundraiser at SET in Miami on August 2nd. Images thanks to WENN .
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| | Jennifer Garner and Violet: Pinkberry Pals | | Added 16 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Following a day of shopping at the local country mart, Jennifer Garner was all smiles as she picked up daughter Violet from school on Thursday afternoon (February 26).
The “Juno” actress mommy and her little girl then headed off shopping at a Williams-Sonoma store before grabbing up a frozen yogurt at Pinkberry.
Despite dressing in a loose-fitting shirt, it appears that Jen has shed most of her post-pregnancy weight after giving birth to her second daughter just last month.
Meanwhile, Miss Garner is gearing up for the spring release of her new movie “The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” - which hits theater May 1, 2009.
The Mark Waters directed romantic comedy tells the story of “a bachelor who’is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends at his younger brother’s wedding.”
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| | Jennifer Garner's mom moves in, Ben Affleck suffers 'estrogen overload' | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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After welcoming their second daughter Seraphina Rose in January, Jennifer Garner invited her mother to come stay with her and husband Ben Affleck. This has caused some problems for Affleck - he now shares his home with four women. Two daughters, a wife and a mother-in-law might be too much for one man to take. The National Enquirer is reporting that Affleck is suffering from ?estrogen overload?.
But it?s not serious. At least not yet. Affleck, they say, just needs to hang out with some guys. Perhaps a camping trip? Or Affleck could go old-school and go hang out at a strip club with Christian Slater. Would strippers help or hurt Affleck?s ?estrogen overload?? What Affleck does instead is call his buddy Matt Damon - but they don?t talk about the Red Sox anymore, they talk Barbies!
Macho movie hunk Ben Affleck is suffering from estrogen overload!
The ?Pearl Harbor? star is the odd man out in a house full of four females - his wife, Jennifer Garner, their three year old daughter Violet, their new baby Seraphine Rose and now his mother-in-law Pat, who moved in after the baby was born Jan. 6.
And while he loves them all dearly, the Oscar winner is complaining about drowning in girl power, sources say.
?On one hand, Ben is thrilled that Jen?s mom is pitching in to help with the girls, but on the other hand, he feels like he?s lost the battle of the sexes!? an Affleck family friend told the Enquirer.
?Ben keeps talking about how desperate he is to get away for a guy?s weekend. The poor guy needs a weekly retreat away from the girly-ness?
[Ben is] getting moral support from his lifelong pal Matt Damon, whose wife gave birth to a girl in August, making him the dad to two girls and a step-father to a third.
?Ben is leaning on Matt,? the source said. ?Not long ago they?d call each other to discuss the Red Sox or poker. Now all they talk about is Barbie dolls and princesses!?
To make things worse, Jen?s mom often invites Violet?s little friends over for tea parties, and Ben gets roped in.
?Ben?s a good sport, but he?s had to draw the line after a few sessions of playing dress-up,? the source said.
Meanwhile, the 38-year-old actor has been pushing wife Jen, who is also 36, for one more baby, said the source.
?Ben adores the girls, but he told Jen he doesn?t want to stop until they have a son. He?s hoping third time?s a charm for a boy.?
[From the print edition of the National Enquirer]
I love the part about Ben and Matt on the phone talking about Barbies and princesses. Something about that rings true, probably because I believe it more of Matt than Ben. Out of the two of them, Matt Damon really seems to be the utterly devoted and worshipful father and husband. Ben still has that look in his eye like he might want a way out. Maybe it?s just me, I don?t know.
We reported several weeks ago that Affleck is desperate for a son, and I found it strange that so many people were like ?Oh, yeah, most men are like that.? I?m not so sure. Yes, it?s one thing for a man to be hopeful for a son, to openly wish for a son, but it?s quite another for a guy to be harassing his wife, who has just given birth, to get pregnant once again, and this time she needs to make it a boy. It just seems like he isn?t really appreciating what he has - everyone healthy, everyone happy. I wonder what Victor Garber has to say about all of this.
Jennifer Garner is shown out with her mom and Violet on 2/8/09. She is also shown out with Violet on 2/15 and 2/18. Ben Affleck is shown out with Violet on 2/17/09. Credit: Fame.
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| | Jennifer Garner Picks Up Violet, Surprises Ben | | Added 16 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Making her mommy rounds, Jennifer Garner was spotted picking her daughter Violet up from her Santa Monica school yesterday (February 18).
Doing her best to avoid the paparazzi, the “Alias” actress moved quickly from the parking garage door to her vehicle, carrying her toddler on her hip.
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| | Ben Affleck is desperate for a son | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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After welcoming their second baby girl, Seraphina Rose, in January, Ben Affleck is trying to convince his wife Jennifer Garner to get pregnant again - this time with a boy. The couple welcomed their first child, Violet, in 2005. Although he’s thrilled with his two lovely girls, Affleck is said to be desperate for a son. This is all according to a ?source? close to Affleck, willing to talk to OK! Magazine. Apparently, it all involves some elaborate scheme involving baby-sized Red Sox gear.
Jen Garner has told Ben and her friends that she?s ?done?. I guess she feels that she provided him with the royal heir and a spare, both girls, and her work is over. But Jen is a big softie when it comes to her husband?s wishes - so perhaps Victor Garbor will be announcing another pregnancy sometime soon.
Daddy Ben Affleck is thrilled that his new baby girl, Seraphina Rose, born Jan. 6, has joined daughter Violet, 3, in his growing brood. But a friend of the He’s Just Not That Into You star says he’s already lobbying wife Jennifer Garner to get pregnant again–and this time, with a boy!
“Ben’s happy to keep going until he gets his boy,” says a friend, who notes the star’s fanatical love for the Boston Red Sox. “He has visions of dressing a little guy in Red Sox gear, tossing a baseball around and cheering in the stands together.”
Jen, however, has other plans! “She’s told friends that she’s done,” a friend of the couple, both 36, tells OK!. “She jokes with Ben, ‘If you want more babies, you’ll have to find a way to produce them yourself!’”
But Ben is convinced he’ll change Jen’s mind–eventually. And he may be right!
“Jen is a big softie when it comes to giving Ben what he wants,” says the friend. And if Ben remains the lone male in the Affleck household? “He’ll have those little girls dressed head-to-toe in Red Sox gear!”
From OK! Magazine
Yeah, a plea for somebody to gear up in Red Sox stuff is not exactly a declaration of ?please have another one of my babies?. And what?s so wrong about putting Violet and Seraphina in Red Sox gear? True, it?s a bit gaudy, but they won?t grow rebellious for years. So will Jen Garner give in and have another baby? And what if it?s another girl? Will Ben be ?disappointed?? He?s a douche if he doesn?t appreciate what he has - two healthy girls and a loving wife.
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and Violet are shown out on 2/3/09. Jennifer Garner, Violet, and Jen’s mom Pat are also shown on 2/8/09. Credit: Fame
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Playing the role of the doting mother, Jennifer Garner was spotted dropping her 3-year-old daughter Violet off at school this morning (February 3).
The “Alias” babe narrowly avoided taking a nasty spill when she tripped over a parking block while trying to avoid the paparazzi.
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