Jennifer Garner was the host at the Save The Children Illumination Gala Tuesday night, an organization she’s worked with for years, with a focus on children in her home state of West Virginia. She wore a simple but elegant strapless gown with what looks like a navy blue velvet bodice (although maybe its black and I’m being thrown off by the lighting) and a black taffeta skirt. Her diamond jewelry is to die for.
In red carpet interviews ahead of the event, Garner talked about raising her children to be responsible adults and to give back. She said that she and Ben try to lead by example and that while kids can be selfish she hope that she’s instilling values in them. Some of her comments were similar to interviews she’s given in the past and it’s clear that these are issues which are important to her.
“I’ve worked with Save [the Children] for the last eight years, and my whole heart is here. So obviously having all these people show up, it’s the only time in my life where I see people with cameras and think, ‘Thank you. I’m so glad you came. Thanks for coming.'”
“It’s so important that you model for your kids how to be a citizen of the world, and I think that’s the very best thing you can do…
That’s really important at home, to make sure that our kids know that we both have causes that we care so much about… that we dedicate time, resources, and our energy toward making our own little slice of the world a little bit better.” – From ET Online
“I think teaching your kids anything is a lifelong job and certainly values are something—you cant just say, ‘Here, have values!’ You have to show them that you have values.”
“The most important thing is just modeling at this age. When they’re older, they’ll hopefully travel with us and go to places and be boots on the ground, but for right now, it’s just really important to both of us that they see and appreciate the work we do.” – From E Online
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Garner reminds me a lot of Kristen Bell in that Kristen says similar things about teaching her kids that they’re part of a larger world and they need to give back. It’s a nice sentiment to hear from a celebrity particularly. Unlike Bell, Garner’s message on photographers and paparazzi seems to be a mixed one. She’s spoken out and campaigned against the paparazzi, like Bell, but she does seem happy to use the paparazzi when it suits her. So I’m not really buying her line about only being happy to see photographers at charity events. Still, props to her for her charity work and for being a hands-on mom and a caring person.
Oh please. The dimple parade was fully out there when they were helping Ben campaign for an Oscar. She’s so disingenuous.
This. Hypocrite. I mean I am not a “Jennifer Garner hater”. not at all, but this fake outrage about invasion of privacy when she knows good and well that she is using her private life story and pics of her kids for PR sometimes. I guess part of her (and others’ of course) job is acting to be outraged at magazines and photographers being interested in her.
This whole look is the epitome of her beige-ness, christ it’s bland,
110 % is so unremarkable Bland and boring (as is her prattling on about no Paps when they sure did use em for Oscar season!) … What IS Remarkable is that Botoxed Temple Tho!
It is a nice sentiment, and I don’t doubt that she wants her kids to give back and all, but I’d be more inclined to find it sincere if pictures of her kids didn’t end up in the Daily Mail every day. I know she and Ben attract attention, but there are some A-Listers where I have no idea what their kids look like, so it’s not like it can’t be done.
Isn’t she one of the biggest pap-callers in the industry? I remember for years not a day went by that I didn’t see a pap shot of her going to Starbucks.
Oh please – she’s been parading those kids around for the paparazzi in an effort to remain relevant for YEARS.
She is fake
I don’t know what Kristen Bell’s kids look like. I know what Jennifer Garner’s kids look like. Jen has the paps on speed dial. Kristen doesn’t. Some of these celebs really are out of touch. Like you can be in a relationship and have kids without your privacy being taken away. So many celeb couples do it. Katie and Jaimie (they have it down pat!), Ryan and Eva, Ryan and Blake, Kristen and Dax, even Ashton and Mila…and these are just off the top of my head. But Jennifer Garner thinks she is so important, that we are all dying to see pics of her and her kids and wants us to believe she’s not calling the paps. Sure, Jan.
She looks good. That’s all I have.
Fake as that upper lip and boobs.
Everyone else has said it. She’s a hypocrite. Same as Halle Berry. We saw that kid all the time when she was dealing with her ex. There are so many celebs whose kids I’ve never seen. Hers I could pick out of a lineup no problem.
Her makeup looks nice.
PUH-lease. Either she’s a straight-up idiot or she thinks ~we are. She grins like a baboon for the paps every day because SHE CALLS THEM. Her public identity hasn’t been as an Actress for years — she’s a Hollywood Mom now. Selling her kids’ private lives is the only thing keeping her at the edge of relevant.
I find it funny that people think that the Affleck/Garner’s call the paps. The paps are stationed right outside their house and follow them. Ben and Jen have often said, that they are going to just live their lives and try to ignore the paps as best they can. I like them, and I love that they are co-parenting so well. Brad Pitt hasn’t gotten one iota of the hate Ben does, and I’ve heard a lot of stories about Ben, but none about him getting in to his kids face or touching them in an angry manner. Yet, so many people defend Brad, yet villify Affleck…I’m sure, I will get tons of hate, because of the irrational dislike for all things Affleck/Garner on this site…go ahead…make my day!
Has she ever given an interview where the words “my children” are not said every 2 minutes? My goddess it’s like she is the ONLY woman on earth who has ever given birth to and raised children.
I foresee this biting her so much in the butt one day when one or two of the children grown up and write a tell all book about mommy and daddy dearest. Mark my words, it will happen from at least one of the three kids.
So insincere it’s an insult to our intelligence.
She’s still talking about Ben like they’re a couple. Give it up.
My thought exactly – but maybe they still are – at least in the parenting sense.
Saw a quote today from Ben’s accountant press conference – where he says he knows how lucky he is because he has 3 great kids and they have the best mother in the world.
Yes, let’s talk about those values that the kids learn at home. Their drunk, gambling-addicted father who diddles the nanny (and every hostess and D-list actress in LA). He does TV interviews under the influence, and shows up to premieres disheveled and his pants unzipped. He’s such an image-obsessed narcissist that he forced PBS to conceal his slave-owning ancestors, an act which threw the show’s integrity into question and resulted in the show being taken off the air for a year. Meanwhile, their mom just just keeps smiling, smiling, smiling — pretending that it’s all not happening, nope, nothing to see here, we’re the perfect family, LOOK AT OUR CHARITY WORK. Share those Doormat Values, Jen! I can’t wait until the Affleck girls grow up and marry selfish drunks like Daddy, and Sam turns into Ben 2.0. Being involved in a charity doesn’t like, ERASE all the other crap that goes on. People are not going to forget, lol. Fake fake fake. What a joke.
Lol,go all in why don’t you?
Hilarious and amusing that she clearly thinks of herself as some sort of expert on parenting. All while refusing to divorce the drunk who f*cked the NANNY. smh Grow a spine, ya doormat.
Children of addicts are at least 8 times more likely to develop an addiction themselves. Doesn’t bode well for their kids, especially since Jen seems to brush things under the rug. For all her talk of “modeling” the kids now (translation: hyper-control over them, nagging), I will laugh if they end up being huge messes like Ben.
You’re going to laugh at the future dark prospects of 3 kids who haven’t done anything to deserve either the father or the mother that they’ve got in Affleck and Garner? Really? That’s the wish you have for 3 human beings who haven’t even done anything just out of spite for their mom? Really? Okay then.