Jennifer Garner admits there’s “a little bit of loss” woven into her co-parenting dynamic with ex-husband Ben Affleck.
The “13 Going on 30” star shed light on the inner workings of their family when asked on Bustle’s “One Nightstand” YouTube show how she strikes a balance in parenting their three kids, Violet, 20; Seraphina, 17; and Samuel, 13.
“Especially when your kids grow up in two separate households, I become mom and dad; he becomes dad and mom,” Garner explained, referring to Affleck.
Garner said that such a dynamic, which has ultimately made her learn to “let go,” feels inevitable when “you don’t have the benefit of both sides, the yin and yang” being under one roof.
“So you have to have a bit of both in the way that you parent,” she continued. “There’s a little bit of loss in that, but there’s also something gained in that.”
Garner and Affleck, both 53, wed in 2005 and parted ways a decade later, finalizing their divorce in 2018. She shared earlier this year that “the actual breaking up of a family is what was hard” about the divorce.
“Losing a true partnership and friendship is what was hard,” she said.
Garner has reportedly moved on with tech CEO John Miller. Affleck, meanwhile, famously reconciled with his early aughts fiancée Jennifer Lopez and married her in 2022, only for the A-listers to settle their divorce in January 2025.
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