{"id":2227579,"date":"2026-01-08T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2227579"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:55:47","slug":"jennifer-garner-got-through-her-divorce-with-ben-affleck-by-avoiding-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-garner-got-through-her-divorce-with-ben-affleck-by-avoiding-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner got through her divorce with Ben Affleck by avoiding gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5kdcdc002x26qmh7awbeei@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Jennifer Garner is fully aware that some people are impressed with how she successfully co-parents with her ex-husband Ben Affleck, but it\u2019s not because she read it in a tabloid.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5kdehs00003b6p9bpeu2fw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.co.uk\/fashion\/jennifer-garner\" target=\"_blank\">a newly published interview with Marie Claire UK, <\/a>the actress promoted the second series of her Apple hit thriller \u201cThe Last Thing He Told Me\u201d and talked about the lessons the past decade taught her.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5kqmpu000c3b6psz1qwpup@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One thing is that she \u201cprotects her peace by refusing to engage with tabloid coverage.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5kv10o000i3b6pxu2eol6y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt doesn\u2019t serve me to take in gossip about myself or anyone else, much less my kids, so I don\u2019t do it,\u201d Garner said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5kuof3000g3b6pit3k1g48@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She shares three children with Affleck: Violet born in 2005, Seraphina born in 2009, and Samuel born in 2012.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5kv6px000l3b6ps0bugf3w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The couple married in June 2005 and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/30\/entertainment\/feat-jennifer-garner-ben-affleck-spilt\">confirmed their split in 2015, a day after their 10th wedding anniversary. <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5l0zha000r3b6pb7ed6lyc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            More than 20 years later, they continue to make headlines whenever spotted together, including last year, a month after he settled his divorce with Jennifer Lopez and Affleck and Garner reunited for son Samuel\u2019s birthday party.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5l3x0n000v3b6pny14wflz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Affleck is on the same page as Garner about tabloids.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5l824h000y3b6pybi214bj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe used to have a thing, my ex-wife and I, when they would see something on a supermarket stand,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/inside-ben-afflecks-plan-to-remake-hollywood\" target=\"_blank\">he told GQ last year. <\/a>\u201cWe would say, \u2018Well, you know this isn\u2019t always true because if it were, you would have 15 brothers or sisters or whatever the number of stories is where they said that your mom was pregnant.\u2019\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5lbnnk00113b6pbp63scdy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            While the former couple are in a good place now, that wasn\u2019t always the case.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5lcbuj00143b6pi1vnyvm2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou have to be smart about what you can and can\u2019t handle, and I could not handle what was <em>out there,\u201d <\/em>she told Marie Claire UK.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5lcxg300173b6pc8qsg366@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But what was out in the public sphere was not the most difficult part, Garner said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5lfbp2001a3b6poq9cbvlo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe fact of it is what was hard,\u201d she said. \u201cThe actual breaking up of a family is what was hard. Losing a true partnership and friendship is what was hard.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk5lg7md001d3b6pr0a2g52y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The new season of \u201cThe Last Thing He Told Me\u201d is scheduled to drop on Apple TV+ on February 20.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Garner is fully aware that some people are impressed with how she successfully co-parents with her ex-husband Ben Affleck, but it\u2019s not because she read it in a tabloid. 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