Jennifer Garner has posted a video to Instagram featuring clips from her daily workout session with celebrity trainer Simone De La Rue and another unknown trainer whom she refers to as “stunt team.” It looks like she’s doing kickboxing-type exercises with that guy. Her workouts total two and a half hours, which sounds excessive but she’s training for a film. She also had some kind of cryotherapy or very cold body treatment, she claims she does it for three minutes. That looks like torture to me. She set the clips to a snippet of Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat” from 1999. She started the post with “Recipe for Turning A Mom Back into Action Lady” with caps like that as if it was a title. Here’s her post. Who did she hire to edit this video?
People points out that Garner is attached to a film called Peppermint, in which she would play a female John Wick-type action star. She’s 45, which isn’t old at all, I’m just pointing out that there aren’t a lot of action roles for women unless the women are making these movies (see: Atomic Blonde) and that the stars are usually younger. I’m on board for this. If Liam Neeson and Bruce Willis can be action stars, so can Garner and she’s much younger than either of them. She’s not a great actress but she does do action well. This film will be directed by Pierre Morel who did the original Taken, which of course starred Liam Neeson.
Garner was already in great shape so I would imagine she’s just building lean muscle and looking more kickass. She’s gearing up to do an action film and is living her best life while her ex is still battling the booze and the bloat. (As I always say, Affleck looks good for a civilian, but he is no longer in superhero form.) So she’s living her best life. Does this also indicate that she’s trying to change her public image? Because she may be hinting that with the title. If she starts wearing fashionable shoes I’ll believe it.
Oh and I want to mention how much I love Simone De La Rue’s workouts which I’ve done through PopSugar (there are three on PopSugar fitness) and Sweaty Betty. Her Sweaty Betty workout builds in both cardio and challenging strength training. (She also has a subscription service but I have enough workout options as it is and haven’t tried that.) Garner is rich enough to hire Simone to come to her house (or maybe/probably she got the studio to pay for it) and I’m so jealous. What is Affleck doing? Is he in rehab and/or does he have a trainer too?
Photos credit: WENN and Pacific Coast News
I really, really like Jennifer Garner. But how is that woman’s hair ALWAYS wet?
Either she doesn’t have time to dry it because she’s hauling her kids around or she doesn’t care…I think it’s a great thing, says a lot about her as a person and parent.
If she’s coming straight from the gym and on a deadline, it’s because she’s showered.
@Kort – judge not, lest ye be judged. It turns out different things are important to different people. You can say someone has no pride in themselves if they’re leaving the house with wet hair, they could very well say that you’re superficial for caring about it too much. That sucks, right? So maybe wait before casting the judgement.
lol wet hair is a sign you’ve given up? and a point of pride?
Or maybe you just don’t have an hour to air dry and don’t like a blowdryer constantly damaging your hair. Or perhaps you don’t have time between a workout and an obligation. Personally, your opinion should have ended there. Wet hair means giving up – for you.
Women don’t owe you a certain level of plucked and manicured and gelled and coloured to have pride in themselves or their appearance.
We need to stop adding these moral or character judgements when we look at how other women present themselves.
I wish it took 10 minutes to dry my hair. Probably 20 – 30 to blow dry my curly hair ( i have a very HOT blow dryer and TONS of LONG curly hair and I have to take breaks because I start to sweat LOL), then it’s straight but poofy. So i have to flat iron it and curl the ends, that takes another 30 minutes. Add in breaks there too so I dont start sweating so much it starts to curl again… God the time I spend blow drying and straightening and curling this ..I call it “taming the beast”. Add it a work out or a jog during the day..hair is wet all over again..All of this is why I personally roll out with wet hair more often than most people.
she works out multiple times a day, thats obvious!
She does look happy and relaxed, which is what matters.
I hate drying my hair, too.
I think she is a mom on the go. No doubt. But just IMAGINE if she had a lovely blow-out and before going for a pap-stroll she put her head under the tap and wet her hair so she would always appear box-fresh, showered-clean and “I-don’t-care-about-me-only-the-kiddos”. I’m not saying she does that, but if she did, that would be some high-level PR manoeuvring and no one would ever suspect.
I think she works out multiple times a day. AFtering dropping kids off, and again in afternoons. I constantly have wet hair when i do double
Days
My hair is -always- wet. The blowdryer is dusty somewhere, but I also live in a very dry climate so it dries, but yes, I avoid eye contact because I KNOW I don’t try. My job doesn’t involve “nice hair” and my kids think I’m God…so let’s make wet hair a “thing”?
I’m with ya! I have (or had … nearing 50) very thick hair and blow drying was such a pain that I gave it up shortly after college. I walk into work (where I’m in senior management) with wet hair every day. I’m sure there’s some judgment… but I just don’t care. It’s never wet by the time I meet with people outside the company.
And I get all kinds of compliments about how healthy my hair is (I also never die … grey = experience… at least for men. And it should for women too)
with all the help she has I don’t think she’s THAT busy and in a rush 24/7 not to have 2 minutes to use the hairdryer, and given that has been a recurring behaviour I’d say that yes, she probably thinks is good for her hair to dry it naturally, which I agree with. But she also knows how to play it: she knows the paps are there, and she knows how this reads as the “lovely mom who doesn’t care about her personal appearance because she’s too busy caring about her children all by herself.” Which might be even true. But she loves to playing it out to pump up her brand with the minivan majority.
I never blowdry my hair. Infact I don’t even own a blowdryer. I don’t know why that is such a big thing. It’s not like I’m going out without brushing my teeth or not wearing any underwear.
Man, I miss Alias. Sure it got crazy towards the end but it was fun.
Anyone remember the season two finale?
Still one of the best finales ever.
She seems to be doing alright so props to her
Yes!!!!!!! “Vaughn, what’ S that ring?” BEST SEASON FINALE EVER….
I loved Alias… Part of me think that it’s too bad she didn’t continue making action Movies…. Only few actresses can kick asses like she did !!! And yet, no one think of her as an action actress…
Sydney and Vaughn. That was some classic TV right there. Remember when Bradley Cooper played the 3rd wheel who didn’t win her affections? Good times.
But they did get it on at least once!
Nothing like getting into good shape to make you feel good about yourself.
Yes, very true Sansa. The summer of 2016, I bicycled average 12km a day. I saw results quickly ie- my stomach flattened but the key is maintenance. And it’s more difficult for females at mid-life because the female body wants every little calorie to make up for estrogen loss.
this could be a very positive corner turn for her. That minivan mom crap always annoyed me but strong, working single mom getting buff and Living her best life without that affleck anchor? I’m all in.
Count me in, too.
I’m here for it, too. You know what? She IS relatable. She had a starter marriage which she messed up .She fell head over heels for the bad boy/brilliant guy. She did her best for her family/marriage, making career sacrifices and trying to help reform her bad boy. Then she wised up or had enough and got out with remarkably little drama. Now she’s going for post-divorce bad-assery. I want to see her look like a million bucks and make a blockbuster movie about a kick-butt WOMAN.
I’ve never found it relatable to have unprotected sex with a sleazy guy who had unprotected sex with a stripper right before his wedding causing a break up. Then get knocked up with his baby, have a shotgun wedding like it’s a fairytale tale. Then find out he is a serial cheater, drug, alcohol and gambling addict. So of course she proceeded to happily bring two more children into that hot mess. That’s stupidity not relatability. It’s a sign of selfishness towards those poor kids not a selfless mother. One of those 3 will inherit her lover man’s addiction gene and or marry someone just like their Dad. They were setup for failure before even being born. In addition she helped Ben create a PR world where they are viewed as the perfect family with the most devoted mom that even walked on the face of the earth. Gag me.
Her continual physical fitness to me personally is the only relatable and enviable trait. So I give her two thumbs up for this.
@original TC: OMG, you said everything I wanted to say (except that apparently she was a cheater herself).
However, I do have sympathy for her and her children (Seraphina is my fave celeb child!).
I am glad she is working out. Go be successful on your own, Jennifer Garner!
Yeah I’m here for this. She really put herself on the back burner for Ben, I think his stunt with his new gf has made her realize she needs to be stronger, and quick.
Quick yes! Sometimes you need reality to slap you in the face and knock you down to realize its time to get up and move on RIGHT NOW…or at least the time has come to at least APPEAR you have moved on. One foot in front of the other until it becomes natural and start picking up the pace
+1
Minivans just kind of come with the territory when you have kids, especially when you add in strollers, or a dog, friends of children, etc…you want the safest vehicle for the small humans. One can be a minivan mom and still be a strong kick ass woman, these two things are not mutually exclusive.
Well I should clarify, I made an obscure reference if you’re not a regular gossiper here, apologies: I think Lainey may have coined the phrase ‘minivan majority’ in which actors appeal/play to the stay at home mom/Pinterest/perfect conservative subservient homemaker/female mindset. It doesn’t literally involve minivans, it’s more of a role they play and feed into. Jen did that with Ben and the farmers market pap strolls, golly gee sweetness, Christian values movie roles, etc. I’m doing a terrible job of elucidating this but her playing to that base could come off a little hackneyed and insincere.
That being said, i am ALL IN for 4o something Sidney Bristow!!!
Has anyone noticed that Jennifer Garner has been driving a minivan lately? Yes, she has the minivan driving mom fan base in the bag, who else in the celebrity realm can they really relate too? I do think that anyone who thinks that those are the only fans she has left couldn’t be more wrong. I like her a lot. My husband loves her.
Same here at work. The people here like her. Quiet fans but probably don’t watch all her movies. I don’t. We just like her. She is likeable.
Yep I am here for her.
What I fully support is her example here. She had a bad marriage and wasn’t her best self, but now she wants it, and you CAN move on. I have a theory that one day she woke up and the anxiety was gone, and she realized now I have time. It sounds weird but wrong relationships are consuming and exhausting but when they are gone there is suddenly time and loads of extra energy. If that makes sense.
Go Jenny G and keep on going girl.
Please don’t say she needs a man at this point. She needs herself and freedom not to be saddled with a man until she feels her feet again.
Yay! This makes me smile.
Awesome comment – and I totally agree with everything you said!
Could not agree more, magnoliarose. I can say honestly that if mr Dazeem and I break up, I won’t be seeking husband numero dos. In fact, I will just revel in my fabulous singleness!
It makes me smile too!
I really liked her in Alias. I’m looking forward to seeing her back in action. The move in her video where she rocks back on the trampoline with weights in her hands and has to rock back up to standing looks so hard. Very inspiring!
Marvel should hire her to one of their movies, while Ben’s Batman fades away. That would be nice.
She did a Marvel movie long before Ben was involved with DC. She was Elektra.
THAT would be awesome.
My niece does that cryotherapy treatment for depression and it really helps her a lot.
Interesting! I hadn’t heard of it for depression!
I’ve done cryotherapy for my knees. It’s a wonder worker. I was on the verge of having to give up running and cryo really made a difference. I did partial body first, and lasted like a minute on my first go round. Now I do three minutes whole bod once a month.
I hope her new film is a huge success and an enormous FU to that POS that is her ex husband.
Same, this is the best move she has made in years.
Agreed. I love to see her in this mode. The hanging on was bad but now her children see Mom reclaiming her time. lol
“now her children see Mom reclaiming her time.”
Love it!
Amen!!!
I hope her new film is a huge success and an enormous FU to that POS that is her ex husband.
I find it sad that the sudden social media onslaught coincided with the divorce and her husband making his mistress his bona fide. To me it just indicates she was fine and quite happy being Mrs. Ben Affleck and now she’s suddenly trying to restablish her acting career at a higher profile because she no longer has that. She’s not A list without him, she’s just not. It shows just how much she sacrificed for that tool.
I think she’ll do OK but she’s 45 and was never a great actress to begin with. Fine, good even, never great. Hollywood is not that kind. If I were her I’d shoot for a strong TV project that films in LA. Stability for the family and steady visibility.
Why should she choose stability for the family above trying to go back up the A list? Nothing wrong with a woman wanting a family life AND to be at the very top of her game.
Also, nothing wrong with a woman having renewed ambitions after coming out of a shitty relationship – even if they were perfectly happy in that relationship.
Agreed. And if there is one thing we all love, it’s a comeback story!
Yes yes. Plus, maybe she’s feeling herself again. Maybe she wants to be ‘out there’ more, now that her energy isn’t being spent babysitting a man child as well as the kids.
I know what you mean, but that is who she is. Her children are her world, but she can have both if she wants. If that is her priority, she has enough money to have quality help and to travel back and forth so why not?
I do think a Netflix series or a cable quality series would be great for her to establish being around again in something quality.
No reason why she should choose stability. But there was also no reason why she couldn’t have been cultivating an A list career all this time. Lots of mothers with famous spouses are doing it. Supposedly she was focused on being a mother and happy with that. Great. Well her son is still very young so presumably she would want stability to remain the focus. What this tells me is the “focus on being a mother” was really “focus on my manchild husband and his sobriety and career because it’s so much more important than mine”. I think she has some pretty serious regrets. That’s sad. That’s all I’m saying.
@Mia4s. To me it indicates she’s no longer concerned about that fat drunk who was dragging her down and now she can concentrate on herself, in addition to her children.
whenever i read “fat drunk” i laugh so hard hahahaha he deserves that
I’m actually looking forward to this “female John Wick” movie, sounds like the good kind of cheese. Go Sidney!
Go Jen!
That does not seem excessive at all, especially for someone who has a physical job like that. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but there is a segment of people who enjoy moving and challenging their body.
I’ll be interested to see how this goes for Garner, because I feel like action and stunts have changed a lot since Alias.
I miss Jamiroquai.
Annnnnnd now I have the urge to watch Center Stage.
i’ve done the body by simone at the studio in nyc, but i’ve never done the workouts online, i’ll have to check them out.
usually, when you do cryo, you’re naked except for socks and gloves, but it looks like she had something on. weird.
anyway, looking forward to her movie
I’ve done it with my underwear and sports bra. It just depends on your comfort level with nudity.
I really wonder what the relationship w Ben is like at this point. Full disclosure but I am one of those ppl who won’t believe that she’s really and truly moved on from him until she’s out in public with someone else. It’s been years since they split, do you think that she’s even been on a date or anything? Her insta used to follow his account but unfollowed it some time after he started going out with Shookus in public. Her account was unverfied at that point so it’s not like it even mattered. She was just mad. And it kinda makes me wonder if she was still holding out for a reconciliation until that point.
I’d say yes and now she’s gearing up for her next phase. Everyone of my friends who divorce go through the I’m working out to move on phase. I think it’s human nature to want to get back to feeling good after going through something that feels so bad. She happens to get paid for it. Good for her.
Dating someone new has nothing to do with being over someone else.
I agree she has nothing to prove. Adding a man when she is free for once is not the answer. If she says she has moved on is behaving as if she moved on then I believe her.
I agree and perhaps…can be a sign of NOT being over it. The word that comes to mind is REBOUND!!!
Being able to be ALONE and content is the greatest sign of being at peace inside.
@HClinton
Or it is sign that a person is just trying to look like they have moved on. Preferring to wait until she meets someone that she truly wants to date is not the same as wanting Ben back.
I thought she was such a desperate loser with ben during their marriage but i totally love the new Jen Garner! Her whole identify was Mrs. Affleck and mother of Ben Afflecks kids before and it was so codependant and sad to see her whole world revolve around this DB.
I LOVE action flicks with female leads (i do some extreme sports myself) and LOVE her getting her groove back and being Strong! Nothing about this i can talk smack about. She is clearly working on herself.
When she comes out the other side and finds herself and her power again she will open to and begin to attract romantic relationships. That is when i believe ben will realize what an amazing woman she is when she comes into her groove and that is when he will come crawling back and i Hope she has the strength by then to not get sucked back in
@Staceyh +1
totally agree
She is sooo over Affleck. I’d bet my dog (whom I love) on that.
She truly is the phoenix in the picture he carries on his back, isn’t she? She has totally risen from the ashes.
I’m so on board with her comeback as an action star. I loved Alias so much growing up and still watch it as “comfort food” when I need a show to take my mind off things.
I don’t know how pre-production of a movie works. Maybe someone could explain that here. Her Peppermint movie is still in that stage but has film crew slowly being added to it. She is the only actor so far and the it is scheduled to film in LA in November. There is an announcement already looking for extras and such. How can the movie starts next month when there is only one actor attached?
I like her sunnies in that header photo.
She was fab in “The Kingdom” with jaimie fox. She’s always been action-y (Alias, Electra), this is just a return.
Good for her finally dumping Ben, that ungrateful, selfish POS. He’s gotten more breaks in Hollyweird than anybody else would have gotten.
I liked Jennifer Garner best in Juno — she’s great playing mom roles. I have no interest in her as an action hero. I can’t imagine the appeal here.
I like Jennifer, but my god, those shoes! They’re consistently awful. I don’t understand.
Comfy low heeled shoes. Oh the humanity…
Well, the role that made her famous was an action heroine one- I’d say she’s just revisiting Sydney Bristow.
I wouldn’t mind seeing her in an action movie again though, she’s in much better shape for it than her ex-husband, in every single way.