Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck were married for 10 years before they decided to separate. In that time, they had three children together. Garner has tried her best to protect them from the public eye, but she said this has always been a struggle.
Her children have been swarmed by paparazzi all throughout their lives. She said this has been so hard on them that they have very few family photos. Jennifer Garner said she and Ben Affleck have no family photos When Garner and Affleck were together, she said she could hardly go anywhere without having a camera in her face .
She said that in the early years of their marriage, as many as 20 paparazzi would loiter in her driveway. “We lived down a street that was chock-a-block full of actors, much more successful and famous and decorated than me, including Ben, and they’d all go by one by one, no problem, and then I’d go do a school run and it’d be 15 cars going with me,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I never had a day without them, and if I did, if I made it to a park by hiding in the bottom of the pool man’s truck or something, then a nanny would see me there and call a number and they’d swarm.
” When the couple’s eldest daughter, Violet , was in kindergarten, Garner tried to get authorities to do more to protect children against the media. Violet even spoke about it. “Violet’s hyper-articulate — she is Ben Affleck’s daughter — and she stood up on a chair in a little velvet dress, with her h.