Ben Affleck is buff and clean cut now: hot or needs some scruff?

Ben Affleck Takes His Girls To Karate Class
These are photos of Ben Affleck, 42, taking his daughters Violet and Seraphina out to karate class and shopping for Valentine’s presents. Violet is holding a fuzzy red pillow which The Daily Mail claims is for her mother, Jennifer Garner. Cute! I also like how the girls are in karate. My son used to take karate and it teaches kids discipline, self esteem and of course self defense.

Affleck looks super buff and you know that he’s trying to show it off in that tight shirt. He’s also much more clean cut than we’re used to seeing him. His hair is short and he’s not sporting any of the facial scruff that he usually has. I like this look on him, he looks much younger when he’s clean-shaven like this.

He is of course in shape for his role as Batman in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, out in 2016. Affleck won’t be able to slack on his fitness or diet routine anytime soon. There are two sequels coming out in which he’ll reprise his role, The Justice League Part 1 in 2017 and Justice League Part 2 in 2019. I wonder if he ever thinks of all the years he’ll tied up in this franchise and questions whether he’s up to the challenge. I bet that Damon’s re-commitment to Bourne helped convince Affleck that he could also do an action franchise. Those two are close and live right down the street from each other. Damon used to say, years ago, that he was getting too old for Bourne, but he’s got a new film coming out in 2016 too.

Affleck was just announced as one of the presenters at the Oscars on February 22. I hope that his wife, Jennifer Garner, comes too and I hope they pose together on the red carpet, but that’s probably a pipe dream.

Ben Affleck Takes His Girls To Karate Class

Ben Affleck Takes His Girls To Karate Class

Ben Affleck Takes His Girls To Karate Class

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  1. Snazzy says:

    His kids are adorable

    • It is what it is says:

      +10 and really funny! Those facial expressions! Love it

    • Christo says:

      Yes, the kids…girls…are very cute. Speaking of girls, what is up with his chest??? Objectively, he looks buff and filled out, but his chest isn’t necessary broad or filled-out. The T-shirt makes him look moob-ish. I wouldn’t kick him out of bed, but does the chest look odd to anyone else or am I just being way too observant?

    • Someonestolemyname says:

      He’s hot. DAMN.

  2. Freebunny says:

    The girls really look like their mother.

  3. Miss M says:

    Sera is my favorite celebrity child.

  4. Tifygodess24 says:

    Yikes. I would get so nervous about having to keep the same weight and muscle size/shape for well over a year or two especially if it was outside of my bodies norm. And he looks so much better with some scruff for sure. Ben is a cutie.

  5. INeedANap says:

    Those poor girls get papped all the time. I want to rescue them and send them to live in a yurt in Nepal for a year.

    • hadlyB says:

      Blame the parents not the paps, they have an agreement with the paps. I don’t think “candids” even exist any more.

      • Merritt says:

        No one is forcing the paps to take or sell the pictures. So yes, they can be blamed.

      • qwerty says:

        @Merritt
        Um, their bosses are. And since they don;t wanna lose their jobs, they do it… because millionaire actors agreed to these shots. So you’re gonna blame the bottom feeders?

  6. Lucy2 says:

    It looks like he’s in really good shape, but I for some reason get the impression that’s extremely difficult for him to maintain.

  7. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    He looks great, but I’ve never found him attractive especially.

  8. LDUB says:

    I’d like to suck….I mean see, those nipples…….*hangs head and walks outta room*

    • Hautie says:

      Get prepare to see a lot of those nipples.

      I suspect he will have a whole closet of those too small t-shirts, to show them off, till he gets to eat carbs again.

  9. Catk says:

    I thought kids couldn’t get papped in California?

    • V4Real says:

      Exactly. Wasn’t it Jen balling her eyes out in a Cali court about the paps and her kids. Why are we seeing pics of their kids and she’s not pitching a hissy fit. That’s why I say she and Halle stage pap shots when it’s beneficial for them.

      On a different note, say what you want about Ben I still adore him and his baby gap T-Shirt. Still not sold on him as Batman though.

    • lucy2 says:

      I might be wrong, but I think the law prohibits the paparazzi from taking photos of the kids in a “harassing manner” or something like that, doesn’t ban all photos completely. They aren’t allowed to get in their face, yell stuff at them, block sidewalks, etc. These might have been taken from more of a distance, or by someone just taking photos and that’s it. Unfortunately the one kid at least seems aware of it.

      • Jayna says:

        And many publications, etc., signed on not to publish children’s faces. That was another big plus that Jen talked about the other day.

    • Santolina says:

      Are you kidding me? This looks like a classic PR-ordered pap walk to resurrect his image. “Clean cut, buff, involved daddy takes adorable daughters to karate class and HEARTS his wife. He deserves to be a super-hero!” As opposed to, “Womanizing, fat, boozer mistreats long-suffering wife and is horribly miscast as a superhero.” Does he look any less grumpy and ornery? LOL

  10. Toniko says:

    I think he needs a tighter tshirt.

  11. Guesto says:

    Not hot. Ever.

  12. scout says:

    He is great dad, always attractive to me. Seraphina looks him, other two look like mom. Good looking family all of them. Can’t wait for Oscar.

  13. Talie says:

    I don’t want to be mean, but he makes fatherhood like the pits. haha

  14. The Original Mia says:

    I just saw him 3 weeks ago and he didn’t look like that. I suspect it’s the T-shirt.

    The girls are adorable. Garner genes are strong.

  15. OSTONE says:

    I think he is super handsome and attractive. Since 1998 when I discovered him while surfing channels and he was in this movie where he played a sheriff batting aliens or something.

  16. Rhiley says:

    He always has this entitled frat boy look to me, but he makes really cute children.

    • Jayna says:

      Actually, he grew up in a very socially conscious household. His mother, Chris, had been one of the original freedom riders who went into the Deep South during the 1960s to fight for civil rights HIs mother was a teacher and raised her children to be interested in world events, current events, etc. His dad, an intellectual, was a drunk and left the home early on.

      “Damon — who was 10 when he met his 8-year-old near-neighbor Ben — remembers the cut-and-thrust of discussions in the Affleck home. “That dinner table was one of the funnest places to be growing up because of all the debates that went on — on any subject. You had to craft an argument and a good one to survive. Ben really honed his debating skills there. He’s not a guy you want to get in a debate with.”

      Adds Affleck: “My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master’s there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn’t go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.?

      When they were young teens, they would go to movies and come out and he said Ben would want to dissect everything about the movie, how it was made, etc., and they would sit and have these pow-wows critiquing how it was done, what was great about it. Matt called them business lunches when they were teens, LOL You can see why they made it. They were both very focused at a young age regarding movies.

      Ben said in an interview he is very cognizant of how he wants to raise his children because of how he and his brother were raised. Matt’s mother is a professor and very involved in poverty issues, where at times she would go off and volunteer and live in proverty stricken areas and bring her kids, and it also shaped his views and giving back and how to raise his children. I don’t think you will ever see Ben’s or Matt’s kids entitled spoiled brats.

      He’s not an enitltled frat boy, even though he might give off that.

      • Rhiley says:

        Um, google the video of him drunk as a skunk asking the foreign reporter to show him her “t*ts,” actually begging her too. I know people grow up or whatever, but Affleck still acts like an entitled frat boy. I think he likes the idea of being movie director, family man- but part of him still loves to gamble, party, and have random women show him their “t*ts.”

  17. Size Does Matter says:

    Day = made. He’s hot, scruff or not. Batfleck forevah!

  18. someone says:

    He looks great, the kids are adorable!

  19. Jezi says:

    He’s on some type of steroid. You can see his nipples are protruding. You often see that when they’re using steroids that contain estrogen. He should be taking estrogen blockers or AIs to avoid getting swollen nipples during the cycle.

    • mimif says:

      Or get a Moobra™.

    • beep says:

      Yeah I was wondering what’s going on with his pecks and nipples.

      • Jezi says:

        It’s very common with body builders who cycle using steroids and don’t use the inhibitors. It usually goes away between 3-5 months but sometimes surgery is needed.

      • mimif says:

        I have two friends that juiced back in the day and they still have issues with their pecs. So viva the Benboobage!

    • Santolina says:

      No kidding? Wow, I didn’t know steroids had an estrogenic effect. You’re right, he kind of has a weird tit thing going on under his shirt. I’m sure through “the magic of cinema” he’ll be transformed from a Boobfleck to a Batfleck, when the time comes.

      • BooBees says:

        The testosterone breas down to estrogen basically and that’s why typically at the end of a steroid cycle bodybuilders use “PCT” (post-cylce treatment) to not get so called “bitch tits”, puffy nips or gynecomastia.

        Medication can often be drugs that are used to treat breast cancer, such as Tamoxifen and the like.

      • Santolina says:

        Yow. Thanks for the detailed info. It explains a lot about certain athletes…

  20. GingerCrunch says:

    Not a Ben fan. Gotta say, though, the header pic made me wanna see the rest of the pics and I was not disappointed!

  21. Sophie says:

    Is this is LA or Detroit? I thought it was now illegal to take pictures of celebrity kids in LA? Maybe I have the laws confused …