On Wednesday, after their initial article announcing Jennifer Garner’s “How She’s Moving On” cover, People Magazine ran three more stories about Ben and Jen and how they’re co-parenting. They’re moving forward with the divorce allegedly, although sources say “it could take a long time” and that they’re “doing it their own way.” There was another article stating that they have a friendship for their kids and that “they are a unit for their kids and they have a mutual respect,” which is nice and what they’ve said all along. Plus there was a story about how Ben is doing. They claimed that he’s not “dating anyone,” and is “as happy as he can be in this position. I don’t think it’s that easy, and definitely not that easy to do it in the public eye.” Poor Ben, having to lay in the bed he made.
There are a few more quotes in People’s print edition which are somewhat obvious but we haven’t heard before. They also set a date for a divorce filing, although it sounds like they’re hedging.
Garner felt like she had failed
Right after the painful split last June, “she was struggling to find balance. She wanted so badly to keep her marriage,” says a family source. “She felt like she had in some ways failed…”After the messy end of her 10 year marriage… Garner focused on protecting their kids. “It was a very stressful situation for Jen,” says the family source. “She felt so much anger and resentment toward Ben but had to keep a lid on it around the kids. It was emotionally draining. She was very concerned about them and didn’t take any time for herself…”
Garner put up with a lot from Ben
“Her kids and family are so very important to her. You can see her love for her family and for what she does…“Jen was always very old-fashioned when it came to her marriage… she put up with Ben’s shenanigans for years…
Garner “fought for that marriage,” adds a long time friend. “She fought for family, she fought for tradition; that is who she is and that is what she represents.”
When they will file for divorce
One industry source who has worked with both Affleck and Garner says an announcement could come sometime after their next movies are released in late March. “I believe that more or less after Batman v Superman they’ll part ways,” says the source.
[From People Magazine, print edition]
So Garner has Miracles from Heaven coming out March 16th, Affleck has Batman v Superman on March 25th, and they plan to file sometime after that. That’s what many of you were predicting about when they would file, and we’ll have to see if that’s how it goes. This is a high profile split and it’s being stage managed to the point where it’s exhaustive to keep up with the coverage. They wanted to suck all the scandal out of it by the time these two had movies coming out and that strategy seems to have worked.
These are photos of Ben Affleck heading to a business meeting yesterday. He needs to rethink some of his clothing choices.
photo credit: WENN and FameFlynet
I’m so tired of these two.
Bad Ben, long-suffering Jen, planted stories from both sides.
Ha, that was exactly my reaction! Haven’t we heard this song a thousand times before? Who cares? She’s getting a divorce. It happens. Jeesh.
Yeah both of them worry too much what the public thinks of them, and at this point I just want them to shut up.
I’m just thinking,”Ben needs a bra”
I dont get whats wrong with his outfit. Yeah, looks like he is getting some man boobs
Ben does and has always seemed like a huge chore to be married to. He dips in and out of being a dad when he feels like it, it seemed.
She’s probably just sorry because she could have done better than Affleck.
I highly doubt that last part. She’s been obsessed with him since they met and continues to cling to their death rattle of a relationship. He is her god. If she’s sorry about anything, it’s that she couldn’t change him or make him love her more.
she was with Michael Vartan when she met Ben. She dumped Michael for Ben, got pregnant right away so Ben would marry her. She’s obsessed with Ben, I won’t be surprise if they got back together.
I don’t think anyone’s thrilled about getting divorced. In this day and age, when more marriage fail then are long lasting. There is a failure feeling. It’s common to feel that way.
I agree. Her sense of failure is understandable, but also twisted. From the outside it looked like she was the only one trying to make it work while he was trying to find the next uncomplicated piece of *ss. I went through that with my ex and my sense of failure, when I finally left him, was devastating. It’s seems nuts to me now that I have distance from the drama/trauma.
It’s kinda tougher when being someone’s doormat is your identity and main purpose in life.
@qwerty
She’s the one that put up with it for so long, can’t say I feel sorry for her. I always got a vibe she got more out of the family image and being part of the minivan-majority than her actual relationship with Ben. When a woman is like that, it completely erodes a marriage. I see it all the time to the point of suburban cliche.
I don’t doubt she taught her daughters a bad lesson about self-respect by staying with Ben for so long.
True. She was getting humiliated by him. I would’ve left with the kids. I couldn’t have dealt with the embarrassment.
“Jen was always very old-fashioned when it came to her marriage”
Yep, well she sure did some old-fashioned cheating on her first husband!
But I guess we don’t bring that up since she does Christian movies now. 😉
That went through my mind too lol.
Well, she was pregnant when she got married, so……
as much as Ben is not made for a monogamous marriage and as dumb as he was to fall for such an obvious attention seeker its crazy how Jennifer gets painted as a saint. thats always fishy and with her we know she is far from the old fashioned housewife.
Her ex has said repeatedly that there was no cheating. That he was jealous of her newfound fame and couldn’t handle it, so they drifted apart. Why admit something like that if he was the cuckolded husband?
And can we not with the “she got pregnant and forced him into marriage” narrative? They were having sex and she got pregnant. He didn’t have to marry her like this was 1950s.
Bravo, Mia4s, you took the words right out of my mouth. As for ‘Miracles from Heaven’, I have to say, that drek looks just as bad as the ‘God’s Not Dead’ series. At what point do you loose so much self-respect that you let yourself get talked into projects like that?
So many men have b/c cups these days, I don’t get it.
-TheRealPinky
Too much hormones in milk and meat. And beer too- beer guzzlers always get boobs and guts.
Agree, it’s the cow juice. It’s meant to turn a tiny baby calf into a huge cow in a short amount of time. Pour liquid hormones over your cereals and into your coffee and surprise, you’re growing boobs…
and in the water!
Everyone’s hormones are getting messed up these days. But we don’t go around mocking women with POCS, so I don’t understand how it’s OK to mock men for having “boobs” (not aimed at you, just sayin’).
OMG, I made a bra comment earlier in the thread. I’m sorry.
I think if Ben wasn’t such a pig people wouldn’t mock his boobs.
What can we do about it? About the hormones in our water? It scares me
@nn – Get a reverse osmosis whole-house water filter, for one. As for the rest, just be mindful of the things that can disrupt hormones, e.g. plastics, chemicals, hormones in milk, chemicals in sanitary napkins and tampons, that antibacterial additive in hand sanitizer and hand soap, so many ingredients in food, skincare, and house cleaners. The best bet is to go organic with everything.
His man boobs are from having used steroids to try to look better. Then, they turned into b cups.
Family source/long time friend/business insider… Seems like it would be easier to just write “publicist”.
He has man boobs. Not attractive. Need to stop milking this divorce. Move on sweetie, he banged your nanny.
I do not think it is the failure, it is the fact that people will remind her of what she had done to get to Mrs. Affleck.
Dude had a pattern, persued a married JLO and Garner who was in a relationship.
And no, I do not buy her and Vartan as broken up. She was biding her time to get with this clown.
People are dating someone and move on all the time. When did it become now something awful to be dating, have a boyfriend or girlfriend, even call it love, but meet someone else or fall for someone else and move on and people are so judgy? Jaysus. She wasn’t engaged to Vartan. He has said they were much better as friends. His non-celebrity wife dumped him, so maybe he’s not the greatest catch either or attentive partner.
Ben was the man she really loved. It happens that in the end it doesn’t work out, the big love, but I don’t judge her. We’ve all been blinded by love and there’s a lot good in those relationships for a time also. Ben has his good sides. She hung on too long, like many people do, hard to give up. It’s life. She loved the man. He was the father of her children.
Because cheating isn’t cool? Whether you’re married or not? Being “so in love” with someone else doesn’t give you the right to cheat. Odd comment coming from you…
Jayna – I agree with everything you said. Things happen, people fall in love, make mistakes every second of every day. It’s just human nature. The only thing that bothers me is the constant demonizing of Ben and sainting of Jen. It’s of epic proportions. The blatant insults targeted at him are always painted as “ok” because well, “he’s a big bad cheater, drinker, gambler!” who clearly must have caused every single problem they ever had. While poor Jen is the long-suffering Saint who simply cannot be judged – “she so righteously took all of this upon herself, took the moral high ground, looked the other way and had to support her 3 kids on her own!” I’ve never had a problem with either of these two individually. I’ve said it from day one – I just never thought they were a well-suited match. My only issue is the narrative the media – and people in general – have created. It’s just the classic good and evil story. People can’t see the “gray.” Just Ben is bad. Jen is good. Blah.
@JoJo, I’m not one of those that demonizes Ben. I am a Ben apologist often on here. Someone has to be. LOL I like both of them.
My sister never thought they were well-suited either and never get them together as a couple. She thought Jen was a little bland.
@Tiffany, who wrote: “Dude had a pattern, persued a married JLO and Garner who was in a relationship.”
And an engaged (to Brad Pitt) Gwyneth Paltrow.
@Emma. Forgot about Goop. Yeah, Jen wanted this dude.
It looks like the front of his wiglet exploded in that last photo.
LMAO!
Like that’s a unique emotion/mindset for Jen….verses every OTHER divorced person in the universe??? Please. Have we nothing else to discuss besides these two and how they can’t seem to get together or get apart?
On a completely shallow note, she looks much better than he does.
Judging by Ben’s picture in that sweater it doesn’t appear she’s being too supportive!
(I’ll see myself out….)
Omg that was brilliant
perfect!
Another day, another story painting Jen as a long-suffering saint for putting up with Big Bad Ben. PUH-lease. She’s a cheater, too. She learned the hard way that a man will not stick around forever just because there’s a baby. She tried that, failed.
+100000
Jennifer Garner created a whole new definition of anchor baby.
Guilt a person into staying with you by adding another kid to the family. Definitely a great sign you care more about keeping a ring on your finger than the new human being you’re bringing into the world. When you play that card don’t be surprised when you get burned. And worse, when her younger kids are old enough to ‘internet’ they’ll figure out the real reason their mother got pregnant with them. Jen always struck me as the type that would poke a hole in a condom when the guy wasn’t looking.
You’re carrying a backpack, dude, do you really need to stuff THAT MUCH stuff in your pockets?
Man, remember when Jennifer Garner played badass Sydney Bristowe in Alias? Now she basically plays moms and girlfriends in boring “feel good” family movies. Sad.
i think they are both too worried about what people think about the divorce and surrounding circumstances. does anybody really care or judge them that much? jennifer has already positioned herself for her new demographic. they are both really narcissistic.
I agree. No one cares at this point. They’ve been separated for eight months and get along and will divorce after their movies open. Nothing to talk about.
BUT Jennifer is gearing up for her faith-based movie coming out, and she wants to keep it out there how she goes to church (pap walks) and never wanted a divorce, was a traditional wife. Sell those tickets.
Poor Jennifer. I hope she will find a better man
He needs to work out more if he wants to be Batman, he has boobs. That or it’s his nipples..
I think he took hormones to try to beef up quickly for Batman. All it did was give him man boobs. They look smaller in that sweater, but he’s not wearing a skin tight shirt as he usually does. Celebitchy has other photos where you can really see them; I was quite surprised that he hasn’t had a breast reduction by now.
I didnt know Ben Affleck’s mom was a racist!
She’s not.
It has been an easy prediction that this long, drawn out saga might actually result in a filing after the movies drop.
This has been a tiring story for a long time, yet it just keeps going.
He’s got moobs. BPA.
I believe after the movie press is over Ben will be filing for divorce. He’s been over it for quite some time and Jennifer got the divorce played out her way because of nanny gate. I also think she will be the ex that says oh the kids need you when he starts dating and moving on publicly. Those fake press smiles won’t be around when he moves on. You can still she is obsessed with Ben and does not want to divorce. She is financially well off take your own vacations with your kids bring your mom or sisters just stop relying on Ben or like she has to do all this stuff. Jennifer is doing it because she does not want to let go.
Yeah, I kind of agree. I have always thought she was/is the type to sort of use the kids as a way to keep him in the fold. Not at all saying she would purposely use her kids – I know she loves them dearly, but there does seem to be an element of subtle manipulation in terms of her using “having kids together” as a way to stay close to him. It wouldn’t be the first time anyone in a relationship has done that, so it’s not out of the question for her. Again, I totally get doing things together for big events that involve the kids – like birthdays, etc. But going on vacations together with other couples, etc. That’s just bizarre. I don’t understand why she can’t just let Ben take them on his own, like most separated/divorcing couples do. If they’re truly moving on, they’re not going to be able to be this family “unit” forever. Yes, they’ll both be there for the kids, but there will be other relationships eventually, and it just won’t be realistic anymore to do all of these things together constantly. I know everyone says the togetherness also has to do with their movies coming out. I just find that hard to buy on her part. She has been so infatuated with him from the beginning, I can’t quite bring myself to believe she’s over him and is now somehow able to continue to spend all of this time with him but just as “friends.” No. I just don’t believe it yet. I’m waiting to see what happens if and when they divorce and what happens when he moves on.