Jennifer Garner: ‘My dad didn’t think Garner girls should have pierced ears’

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Wired has an “autocomplete” interview with Jennifer Garner, where they ask her the most googled questions about her. Their interview format is a clever and an easy way to come up with questions for celebrities. In the video we learn that people want to know if Garner is Canadian (no), if she does her own stunts (sometimes), if she knows more than one language (no), and what personality type she is. When she gets to the “personality type” question she doesn’t seem to know that it’s about the popular Myers-Briggs personality scale, and then says she’s part introvert/part extrovert and will have to Google to see what her personality type is. All you do is take a test online to find your personality type. Even my 13 year-old knows about Myers-Briggs, I’m surprised she’s never heard of it The most interesting answer was the one she gave to whether her ears are pierced. They’re not because her dad didn’t let her and her sisters get their ears pierced. She said “My dad didn’t think Garner girls should have pierced ears.” So her dad got to decide that for her and all her sisters and she never made the decision to get her own ears pierced. I may be reading too much into that, but consider her choice of a second husband. Here’s more of what she said and the video is below:

Did Jennifer Garner go to college?
Yes I went to Denison University in Granville Ohio and I graduated with a BFA in theater performance

How does Jennifer Garner stay in shape?
I did it this morning, just so you know. It’s like a dance cardio weights, trampoline, really fun high energy super hard but you can do it workout.

Does Jennifer Garner have pierced ears?
No I don’t. My dad didn’t think Garner girls should have pierced ears.

What personality type is Jennifer Garner?
I’m an introvert and an extrovert… I’m an extroverted introvert. I don’t know, what a wonderful question. Google, do you have an answer for me? Who am I?

What is Jennifer Garner’s diet?
I was following Be Well by Kelly because I was getting ready for a movie. I actually really liked the diet so I’ve stuck on it.

Is Jennifer Garner James Garner’s granddaughter?
That’s sweet that they would say granddaughter. No but I used to tell people in the marching band growing up that he was my uncle.

I saw Love, Simon over the weekend and to call it wonderful and moving is inadequate. My friend and I were crying and hugging for about half the movie. Garner played the mom in that and she was about as necessary in that film as she was in Dallas Buyer’s Club. She’s smart to play up her personal life because she has not been a standout in any of the films I’ve seen with her. That said, she seems to shine in action roles and I’m glad she’s getting another chance to do that with her film coming out, Peppermint.

Here’s the video, at about :40 in she sings her sorority song and then she tries to speak pig latin and it’s annoying.

Jennifer Garner arriving at church

Jennifer Garner at church in Pacific Palisades

Jennifer Garner arriving at church

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  1. Rapunzel says:

    A 40 something with clip on earrings is ridiculous. Just get ’em pierced. Seriously. You’re a grownup.

    • Andrea says:

      I didn’t get my ear’s pierced until I was 19. I have really sensitive skin so I can understand not wanting to have one’s ear’s pierced.

    • Ada says:

      Lol whaaaat? I am 30 and don’t have my ears pierced. Sometimes I wear clip-on earrings – the horror! Yet I’m a fully functional adult! You wouldn’t expect anyone to pierce other parts of their body would you?

      • Anners says:

        I had mine pierced at 7 and I now regret it. There’s something really lovely about an unpierced body 🤷‍♀️

    • Alissa says:

      haha my grandma is 85 and still wears clip on earrings. and to be honest, you wouldn’t know the difference.

    • Snazzy says:

      Meh, to each his own. I had mine pierced basically at birth (it’s an Indian thing) and I love it but some people are horrified by it. whatever really

  2. Lela says:

    I really like her and I really don’t know how she ever wound up with a loser like Afleck, I mean what was the attraction, he has been super messy for decades

  3. littlemissnaughty says:

    But lip injections were fine? Sorry, just being bitchy today. But that answer was so weird.

    • Sabrine says:

      She has never had lip injections. That is how her lips have always been.

    • Ash says:

      right tho….. that LIPPPPP is fake yal

    • KiddV says:

      I can’t remember the name of the procedure, but it’s not implants or injections. They basically cut part of your upper lip and curl the lip out to expose more. I’m not describing it well, and I’m sure there’s more to it, but that’s the gist of it. Cher also did it that way. So, when Jennifer says her lips are real, she’s not lying, she’s just not mentioning she had help in getting them that way.

      I’ve been googling trying to find the correct name for the procedure, but I’m not finding it.

  4. Chloeee says:

    I find her so pretty when she smiles. Not being sexist but her smile really does light up her face.

  5. Wellsie says:

    They way she says “Garner girls” grinds my gears. Grow up!

    • minx says:

      Same, and that top picture of her irritates me for some reason.

    • jenna says:

      She was imitating what her dad used to call them. Yeesh.

    • Shotcaller says:

      Wellsie
      Agree. Once in an interview she was asked about tattoos and she made a face and said the Garner girls don’t get tattoos. I was like, give me a break. Personally I think it’s virtue signaling. Garner girls aren’t problematic, we drive our daughters to and from ballet class, wear sensible shoes and pick out perfect pumpkins at the farmers markets. And enable men with arrested development issues to bang the nanny.

    • mannori says:

      I gasped at that whole phrase and what it means and implies, and suddenly I want to divorce her too, LOL. Not at all an Assfleck apologist but of course that was never going to work, they’re completely mismatched.. She should have married someone like Blake Shelton or Chris Pratt.

  6. Busyann says:

    I’m 31 and don’t have pierced ears. I tried 3 times when I was younger, but my holes would always close up so I just gave up. I think about getting them pierced from time to time now, but I’m rather “meh” about it. I have a few clip on earrings for extra glitz sometimes, but they hurt so I avoid wearing them more often than not.

    • Erinn says:

      I ended up getting my second lobe piercing re-done last year. It had grown over. My lower lobe was pierced, but one side ripped slightly after I caught a hoop in a hairbrush. I can’t wear any studs in the lower lobe because one side is just too low now. I think I could get it fixed with plastic surgery but I just don’t care enough. I just got the second ones done so I could wear some studs.

      My piercer put in barbells when he re-did them – which was SO much more comfortable than a stud. Once they’d healed up I swapped them out with labret jewelry because I hate the feeling of studs poking behind my ear / into my neck. I just leave them in all of the time because of how comfortable they are. And because I don’t want to get them re-done AGAIN.

  7. Dlc says:

    That headline comment is grossing me out a little. Anyone else?

    • minx says:

      Yes.

    • Erinn says:

      Not really? I mean, the girls part is a little weird I guess, but it’s in reference to a time when she WAS a girl. I find it most strange that her dad would be against lobe piercings, but whatever. I wasn’t allowed to get mine done until I was 12 and could take care of them myself. The only kind of piercing my dad was against growing up was a tongue one because they freaked him out as far as the chances of getting them infected/it potentially damaging teeth.

  8. Izzie says:

    I read that she actually got her ears pierced a couple times, but they would always close back. I guess as a child/teenager her parents wouldn’t let her and then, later on life, she didn’t get used to wearing earrings all the time to prevent the hole from closing.

    • Lady D says:

      I’m in my late 50’s and don’t wear jewelry often. I wear earrings about 8-10 times a year and have to re-pierce my ears each time. My holes constantly close over. I console myself with the thought that I have very healthy skin:)

  9. Jussie says:

    I find her insufferable. It’s like someone took Reese Witherspoon, removed all the talent and ambition and edge, and just left the grating attempts at being relatably folksy.

  10. Mabs A'Mabbin says:

    For me, she’s like eating tapioca. I know it’s alright, but I never buy, make or order it.

    • magnoliarose says:

      I loathe tapioca. Lol
      For me, she is like a baked potato with no toppings. Not bad or anything but needs flavor to make it desirable. Butter, salt, and pepper are good, sour cream better, chives even better, twice baked with a further kick and infinite possibilities for flavor can be interesting and so on.
      But she is just the potato.

  11. Lotusgoat says:

    I’m almost 40 and have never had my ears pierced- it’s just not something that ever appealed to me. Who cares?

    • BILLYPILGRIM says:

      ITA-who cares?!

      • Kiki says:

        Some cultures actually… In Latin America for example, when a baby girl is born the nurses pierce her ears on the same day. Earrings is one of the first things most Latina moms buy when they know they are having a girl. When I found out I was expecting, I talked about this with my Austrian husband and he said NO. Because they don’t do it like that in the country we lived in. I was freaking out at the thought but… We had a boy. So, yes. People of different cultures, care.

      • WTW says:

        Yes, it’s like this story discussing what ear piercing means culturally to black and brown girls. https://www.racked.com/2018/3/15/17119892/ear-piercing-babies-children-of-color-one-day-at-a-time

        I mean, if Jen doesn’t want her ears pierced that’s fine, but it’s kind of gross how she’s framing it as if it’s still her Dad’s decision as to why she doesn’t have pierced ears.

  12. Amanda says:

    Some parents are strict about stuff like that. My grandmother didn’t want my mom to have her ears pierced either. She would say “if god wanted you to have another hole in your ear, you’d be born with it.” So my mom didn’t get it done until she was 16. It’s a personal choice to pierce any part of your body, so no hate on her if she chooses to not get it done. I’m sure there are just as many people who would get annoyed by someone piercing an infant’s ears because they got mistaken for a boy.
    Also, they didn’t specifically state Myers-Briggs in that personality question. She could have also answered it as “I am a type A” or whatever. I think saying introvert or extrovert also answers the question.

  13. DIRTNAP says:

    I regret piercing mine. I think unpierced ears are pretty; they have a minimalist aesthetic that appeals to me now as an adult. I think it’s nice that she has that clean earlobe slate.

    Mr. DIRTNAP can’t stand the sight of earlobes pulled down by too-heavy earrings, or stretched out piercing holes of any kind. Watching him suppress his gag reflex during meals shared with anyone with sagging earlobes or piercings is always a good time. Needless to say, he never gifts me with earrings.

  14. tracking says:

    My father was also anti-pierced ears, said they were “barbaric.” I didn’t care, pierced mine when I was old enough, but my mother never did. Buying clip-on earrings for her is a PITA!

    • Cee says:

      Remember magnetic earrings?! I used to buy those because I wasn’t allowed multiple piercings. Those were terrible.

  15. Cee says:

    When I was born – firstborn child AND girl – my mum shaved off my hair and pierced my ears (super common practice in Argentina) and my dad had a fit LOL Thought it was unnecessary PAIN. IDK, it’s not like I remember any pain? However, I removed my pearl earrings as soon as I could, by the time I was 10 years old and I hardly wear earrings. I love “naked” ears.

    • Saucy says:

      Also very common in some South Asian countries including shaving head (when born) and then piercing ears (I was about 2 apparently when mine were pierced!)

  16. Veronica says:

    I have pierced ears, but I haven’t been able to wear earrings in them for awhile because I gained a nickel sensitivity as I aged. I can only wear gold and sterling silver and clean and change them every day. I do enjoy the way a dangling earring looks when my hair is up, though, so I may consider getting the holes professionally redone with needle.

    I think she’s actually pretty smart with her career. She picks movies that don’t necessarily require her to do the heavy lifting to draw in an audience. That allows her to get the job done without picking up any of the serious flak.

    • Shotcaller says:

      Sensitive Solutions by Claires are amazing. I sleep, swim, shower do everything in mine and I have really sensitive skin.

    • Tess says:

      Have you tried titanium posts? I have the worst nickel contact-allergy ever, but titanium earrings don’t bother me at all – they’re as inert as gold and silver and I find they’re more durable.

    • WTW says:

      I had his allergy, too, and still wear gold and sterling silver only. My ears are not as sensitive as an adult as they were as a child, but gold and silver is just better to be wearing anyway for health reasons.

  17. Krill says:

    I hope that 13 year old also knows that Myer-Briggs and frankly any online personality quiz us a load of hogwash. Myers Brigg in particular as it was developed by a woman whose training was in agriculture and her daughter, whose degree was in political science. And they based their test on Jungs psychological types. Theories that had long been discarded by actual psychologists when they made their test. Anyway, all that should be obvious to even a child since you could take the same text two days apart and arrive at two completely different ends.

    That said, I think Jen was saying that she will have to check what an in-betweener is called. In ither words consult a dictionary. The word is “ambivert”.

  18. crogirl says:

    Is it really possible to finish college without learning a foreign language in the us?

  19. JoJo says:

    The fact that she doesn’t have pierced ears isn’t what’s annoying or strange to me. If you don’t want ’em, that’s totally fine. It’s the persistent overgrown cheerleader, baby voice and good girl on steroids persona that’s the most irritating to me. It’s her regular grown-up references to “the Garner girls” and how they all behave in a certain way.

    The sorority song and the pig latin talk were just the icing on the cake for me – or more appropriately, the teeth on a chalkboard.

    13 Going on 46!

    • The Original G says:

      Let me add to your list her persistent pap walking of her kids while maintaining some fiction that she’s their great protector. But this, it seems is her most profitable and successful performances. She continues because it’s lucrative.

    • HG says:

      She’s 46 going on about 10 and it’s weird. I can see why Ben couldn’t hang with that. The baby voice, the tilted head when she talks, etc — this babyishness isn’t attractive on the 23-year-olds who try it, and on a middle-aged woman it’s just a fucking bizarre schtick. She’s going to flip out when her kids are teens and don’t want to do arts and crafts with her anymore. Can’t wait.

    • anna says:

      She is weird. Has she always been like this? I dont think so

    • mela says:

      yeah she seems nice but annoying and over the top cheerful. i can see why Ben out grew her. she is so bland. but honestly, what in the WORLD did they have in common besides the kids the last 10 years? she appears to be as straight as one can be and healthy/fit…Ben is clearly a degenerate drug addict and alcoholic…What did Jen see in him or like in him *if* she is so straight and narrow as she presents herself to the public?

      Either her whole image is a complete farce and she is a party animal, coke head, drinker like him or like their marriage was a COMPLETE mis match..I just can’t wrap my head around what the dinner conversation would be. Did she even really KNOW Ben? I imagine he was living quite the double-life.

      overly cheerful people like that make me so nervous lol i just get the urge to flee

  20. magnoliarose says:

    My parents never cared, but we never had it done as children that just isn’t a thing in my family. We had them done as teens when we asked, and they didn’t care how many holes either. They didn’t monitor our style or fashion expression at all as long as it wasn’t obscene, proper for the occasion and not based on being sexually alluring. Sexy clothes were a No.
    My grandmother despises more than one hole, so she just ignores it. lol

  21. Jayna says:

    As a family we went to see Love, Simon. We all loved it. It was a sweet, lovely movie. As many reviews said, it was great to see a movie that was a coming-of-age, first love movie done in a rom-com kind of way and the boy happened to be gay coming out. It’s very heartfelt.

    Here’s Jennifer talking about the movie and about kids coming out.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjB1uhdE68

  22. lawyerg says:

    She’s so earnest and fake. How’s divorce #2 coming, Garner Girl?

    • hannah says:

      All but publicly called off. Garner Girls don’t divorce the father of their children, no matter what.

  23. HannahF says:

    I guess there must be something wrong with me. My parents told us that if my sister or I got our ears pierced that they would not pay for college–and we believed them. (They paid for college and grad school for all the kids with no student loans.) Neither of us got our ears pierced until we were in our 30’s. It really wasn’t an issue. We didn’t care.

    With respect to Garner girls, I frequently refer to my family in such a manner. Oh well.

  24. yara says:

    What, no discussion about how Ben apparently moved back into the family home recently? Or how much $$ he and Jen must have paid the paps not to publish those pics?

    • Jenfan says:

      Is that how it works, they pay their pap friends for the pics they dont want published. Like when Lindsey was photographed coming out of his rental before he went public with her, but the pics did not make it in until later.
      We don’t know that he really moved in – just that he has been driving Jen’s car and maybe perhaps staying there a few nights a month. Time just spent with his kids I think.

      • tara says:

        X17 is totally weird. It is an extremely pro Jen Garner website. It was crazy that they sat on those Shookus pics for months. They would have got a lot of hits for posting pics of Ben’s mystery gf. So why didn’t they? It certainly wasn’t out of loyalty or fondness for Ben. And anyway, he took LS public a few months later and has been shameless about the relationship. The only thing that makes sense to me is that the actual people who run that site were hoping for a reconciliation and didn’t want to jeopardize that. Maybe they hoped it was just a fling. To this day they still jump on any chance to imply that B&J are getting back together, no matter how far the reach. It could be the reason that they still haven’t posted the pics of moving vans — they probably know the deal better than anyone. But they haven’t. Why not? My guess is, it’s because they know that it makes Jen look really bad and pathetic that she let him move back in. FFS he even has a girlfriend now. What other reason could there be? They post random school run pics, everything else… but not moving vans which could mean something interesting?

    • JoJo says:

      I don’t think that stuff has made its way to mainstream attention yet, if it’s true. It’s only been implied at X17 and some other photo sites, I think?

      @JenFan – If she’s actually letting him stay at the guest house again, my guess is it’s not just for the kids, which is per usual for her. Letting him stay at the guest house is one step backwards for her and one foot in the door for him. Total bizzaro-land.

      • Jenfan says:

        @jojo x17 carried on about the car, backgrid has a video saying he is staying there and Stefan (who does seem to be in the know) has said he is staying there not that they are together in any other sense. This is not in the mainstream at all. If and when there is confirmation that he is not in another official relationship- then I think maybe you could say it’s a foot in the door – I really can not see her getting back with him ever. Before the whole Lindsey thing became public, I thought maybe down the road. I really don’t think so. I really would love to see her with someone else – better suited for her in the long term. G Paltrow has successfully done it and kept a sense of family – jen can too.

      • mela says:

        How will she ever find a new man if she lets her ex come around her house and spend the night whenever he pleases?

        No grown man is going to want to date a woman whose estranged husband is allowed to come and go and sleep at her house whenever she pleases. She is not available and has not moved on.

        Ben is using her as usual. She is still a doormat and will accept any crumbs from Ben.

      • katherine says:

        Why is he allowed to stay there at all, even a few nights a month or whatever? Boundaries, anyone? If they are actually going to divorce, he’s going to live elsewhere and the kids will need to deal with that. Having him spend the night is just muddying the waters even more. Plus, he just likes to use Jen, and if he’s truly moved back into the home, then I think their toxic cycle has simply continued. He was caught doing something bad, Jen banished him, now he’s finagled and convinced her that he’s changed (lol). Boom, he’s allowed back in the house. The whole co-parenting thing was just a facade bc their situation was a total mess. Still is, apparently. The kids must be so confused, no wonder they are in therapy. Cannot believe that she let him back in. She is gonna look so bad when this hits the press.

    • tara says:

      There is no excuse for Ben to be staying at that home. None. They aren’t poor. He can drive or be driven any distance. They can co-parent without living together, millions do it every day. If he is living there, even temporarily, all that means is that Ben has manipulated her yet again and she has caved to him yet again and nothing has changed in the last three years whatsoever. That would be extremely disappointing. Does he actually have to get one of his girlfriends pregnant for Jen to cut the cord? 10 points for mela who is totally right — what man would really want to get involved with this mess? Now she can spend her time propping him up again for another round. Pathetic.

      • Jenfan says:

        But why does Ben want to live there. Unless it’s really just a situation of a couple a days a month and he lives in NYC or is away filming otherwise.

      • girl with a horse says:

        Free meals and access to his kids? Why does Jen even want him there? Doesn’t he make her skin crawl?

      • pamela says:

        @Jenfan Because Ben is a user. Not just of drugs and alcohol but of people. He has used Jen for years and continues to do so bc she allows it. He has used Shookus for awhile now, too. He has used his own kids for good press for himself. It’s not really about “why does Ben want to live there”…Answer: because it’s easier for him to sponge off of others. The real questions are, why does Jennifer Garner LET him live there if she is so done with him, and why does Lindsay Shookus still give him the time of day? BOTH women should be done with him. Shookus, I can’t remember the last pics I saw of them together, so maybe they have broken up. With him working in HI it may be hard to tell one way or the other.

      • JoJo says:

        Agree. Convenience. Familiarity. It’s easier. His image keeps taking hit after hit. All obvious reasons why it’s advantageous for Ben to be there. But the only question that matters is why Jen would allow it. Full responsibility is on her with this one. I would think any quality therapist would advise against it, especially after how seemingly turbulent and prolonged the split was. Maybe he did split with Lindsay, but I don’t know why that should matter to Jen at this point since it doesn’t change the four/five-year affair/relationship or the fact that Ben just had his hands on Linday’s butt while house hunting four weeks ago.

      • leyland says:

        JoJo, you know why. Garner is always the doormat, and forever Ben’s ashes. She cannot and will not say no to him, ever. Doesn’t matter how much her fans try to claim that she’s moved on and is in a better place. Her place atm looks like it’s with Ben in her house.
        Let’s say that he and Shookus did break up at some point in the last 1.5 weeks. Moments later, he’s quitting the rental and she’s letting him back into the house? As you said, all kinds of publicly documented PDA from very recent times. It’s sad, actually. Poor kids.

  25. Neens says:

    That was a really bad Canadian accent. She sounded like she was from Wisconsin or something.

  26. Lana 234 says:

    I had stop watching the video half way through she annoys me.

  27. Adele Dazeem says:

    Yes you regulars that know me know I grew up in Charleston with JG. I can confirm her dad was pretty strict and old school and she and her two sisters (she’s the middle) were very….goodie goodie milquetoast. ESP Jen. She was (in jr high, high school, mind you) considered the geekiest of the three sisters, the least attractive/least popular. Also not typical high school fun girl. No parties no underage drinking etc. antisocial. She was an odd bird. And yes, those lips are a Garner family trait. Have they been ‘perfected’? I don’t know, I’m not a plastic surgeon but I don’t recall the top one being as symmetrical with the bottom one. But again, this was a long time ago and not to be harsh, but she just wasn’t someone that garnered (Baha pun not intended) attention.

  28. leyland says:

    A summary of DM Stefan’s claims for those who don’t follow: Ben has been allowed to take the girls out by himself lately w/o supervision. There were moving trucks at Ben’s rental a week ago. Ben was/is apparently staying at the family home w Jen and the kids since he first returned from filming in Hawaii last Friday. Ben’s house hunting is apparently just for show. He was in NYC from Friday 3/2 to Wednesday 3/7.
    So here’s the thing: I assume he was in NYC to be with Shookus but who knows. Why is he staying at Jen’s house? He can afford a hotel or another rental. Furthermore, why is she letting him stay there? Is Shookus still in the pic and if she is, does this bother her? The only one who I imagine is 100% cool with this situation is Ben because then he gets everything. A mothering wife and a girlfriend.

    • Mela says:

      I highly doubt Shookus is okay with this. I think they are broken up or she will dump him after the coverage this week. Ben is a drunk. I bet he gets blacked out drunk and hooks up with Jen.

      OR Shookus is supportive of this because this might be the only way Jen lets him see the kids and jen obviously uses it as a way to spend time with him… we all know ben isnt in love with her but Ben and Shookus are going along with it for the sake of the kids?

      Jen garner just doesnt get it!

    • JoJo says:

      FWIW, there’s a pic of him with Lindsay in NYC on March 2. It’s in a March 14 Daily Mail story about “Is There Hope?” for Ben/Jen. I thought it was weird that the DM never posted it as a separate story like they usually do but instead held the photo and included it weeks later in this other story about a Ben/Jen reconciliation. Weird, and I kind of have to believe calculated? Since the DM pretty much creates full stories on a daily basis out of nothing more than these people walking to their cars. Feels reminiscent of when they were holding pics of him with Lindsay for weeks/months before they went public. What’s the angle this time?

      • leyland says:

        That is weird (about the March 2 pic w Shookus) because before that, I think the last pics of them were from Valentine’s Day. Why wouldn’t they make pics of him and LS their own story per usual? Furthermore, is it even really possible that more pics of him/them in NYC don’t exist? They are obviously getting pap’d but the pics aren’t making it into the tabloids. It’s not a lack of interest either, because the psychos come out in full force to click on that stuff. There is even a pic of Shookus with her ex and their daughter that was taken on March 6. Ben was still in town and she was out co-parenting with her kid and ex?

      • JoJo says:

        Just Jared’s pics of Ben flying back to LA from NYC were from March 5, but they didn’t post them until March 7 for some reason. Either way, Lindsay or no Lindsay, yet another Ben/Jen saga would just be pathetic.

      • Jenfan says:

        The way they held back that photo was interesting. That was Oscars weekend there were pics of Jen that Saturday at Sam’s basketball game where trophies were given out. And Sunday she made a splash at the Oscars and was all over the news with the “meme”. Were Ben’s PR just trying to keep him out of the press that weekend?

      • Jenfan says:

        Let’s just remember when the moving trucks were spotted by Ben’s rental last week – Ben was in Hawaii and Jen was in DC/NYC. So no pics of them directly to sell to paps. And there must also be some agreement about what gets sold / gets published.

    • nancy says:

      Wait, Ben’s back to living in the house with Jen? What? Wow. She sure showed him, huh? (Not.) This is why he has never respected her. He makes minimal effort and she bows down. He was just with Shookus a minute ago, was she just waiting for that to end before welcoming him back w open arms? Kids or no kids, I’d have firm boundaries with this loser. She really needs psychotherapy. More issues than Ben.

  29. vivian says:

    The creepiest aspect of the whole back tattoo saga was how easily he lied about it being fake for a movie. He’s quite the good liar, isn’t he? Didn’t pause, didn’t miss a beat, looked Mario Lopez right in the eye and just very smoothly said “fake for a movie.” Who could ever be with a person like this in any real way? You couldn’t trust a thing that came out of his mouth. IDK what Garner could possibly be thinking letting him move back into the house again. She needs as much help as he does if that rumor is true.

  30. emily says:

    The moving van stuff is only from two sources atm, Stefan and that Backgrid video. Both claim that moving vans were “spotted” but don’t give any further details. I mean, if they were moving stuff from Ben’s rental to Jen’s house wouldn’t that be worth stating (“Ben Moves Back In!!!”)? Where did the moving vans take his stuff? Why aren’t there pics or a video? It’s deliberately vague and also downright weird that the paps who sit outside these homes didn’t get any shots. Then Stefan states in two different posts that Ben is no longer in his rental, but then kinda hedges and says that “apparently” Ben has been staying with Jen and the kids since he was back from Hawaii. Stefan posts declarative sentences and doesn’t mince words, but then uses “apparently”? Judging from his posts I’d wager that he’s a paparazzo himself, the stuff that he claims to know lines up with that IMO.

    • q says:

      Yeah I’m a bit skeptical. The tabloids have been using this saga for sport and clickbait since minute 1, no reason to ignore it now. The whole moving van stuff allegedly happened last week, so where are the pics? Where is the actual evidence that any of it is even true? Stefan and Backgrid could be one and the same. It would be fairly shocking next-level doormat behavior on Garner’s part to let him move back into the house regardless of whether or not he is still with Lindsey. I guess I’ll wait for more proof.

  31. vicki says:

    Jenfan, tabloid sites have posted pics of moving trucks at the house without Ben or Jen being present before, including the first time they were spotted at the home back in June 2015. Both ET online and E news still have articles up about that.

  32. Ash says:

    I don’t really think it’s a big deal whether or not anyone gets their ears pierced. To each their own, and it depends on your personal style, and what makes you comfortable. However, the way she quoted her dad “GARNER GIRLS DONT HAVE PIERCED EARS”? Oh my god, I cringed so hard I turned to dust. Something about that statement brings out the heebie jeebies in me.

  33. Carolnr says:

    Best memory ever….. I took my mom to get her ears pierced for Mother’s Day when I was in college. ( I had mine when I was 13). We had them pierced in 14k & she loved them! She never had problems with them & wondered why she had not done this sooner! She loved to buy good earrings for herself! And she never lost one! She was always losing 1 clip earring, lol!
    My mom passed away 3 years ago and I still have her jewelry armoire with all her pieced earrings & jewelry!

  34. Carolnr says:

    Just read all the comments….this turned into a whole new topic!
    It is weird that gossip sites think that the moving vans were there to move Ben’s stuff out of the rental back into the family home…why wouldn’t they be there to move Ben’s stuff to the apartment he rents with Shookus? I think the paps know where Ben’s stuff is going! But why isn’t there any pics?

  35. Jenfan says:

    For those of you who thought he broke up with shookus because there hasn’t been tabloid pics since mid February- pics on Instagram in Hawaii today and she is with Ben.