We know Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s kids have met because they’ve done outings together that were caught by the paparazzi Jennifer Garner and her on-again boyfriend, fast food technology entrepreneur John Miller, are much less pap-friendly. We’ve barely seen them out together. If US Magazine is to be believed (and I think they are when it comes to Garner) they’ve each separately met the other’s kids, but their kids haven’t met each other yet. John is notoriously private. He has a 15-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter, based on details that came out from his 2014 divorce papers. According to US, John and Jennifer have talked about their kids meeting and are planning to arrange that. Here’s more, from the print edition:
Things are getting serious between Jennifer Garner and beau John Miller. On October 16, the actress, 49, spent a cozy evening at Miller’s home with his two kids from a previous marriage, and it went so well that now they’re planning on introducing his children to her brood. “It’s a huge deal,” a source tells Us, explaining that the pair didn’t want to involve their families “until they were 100 percent certain” that they were in it for the long haul. “Step one was meeting each other’s kids. Then they’ll look to move in together,” adds the source. “Assuming all is going well, it’ll culminate in an engagement!”
[From US Magazine, print edition, November 1, 2021]
Jennifer is having a house/mansion built now, and I wonder if John is planning to move in there. It seems odd that she hasn’t met his kids until now. They were together for about two years before they split in the summer of 2020. They reconciled sometime this spring. Did they just take it really slow last time? This is also a huge contrast to how quickly Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are moving and introducing their kids to each other. I know that Bennifer was together before, but so were Jennifer and John. We heard engagement rumors about Jennifer and John in 2020, also from US, and in 2019 a source told US that Jennifer felt like she’d “found a true partner” in John. It’s hard to believe that she hadn’t met his kids at that point if they were so serious. Something is off, but maybe it’s just their PR.
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Good for her for taking it slow!
Lol. I like Jennifer Garner, but at the same, she plays the Hollywood game expertly.
She really does. Based on previous guys she’s dated, this doesn’t feel like it would be this – tho’ he looks a bit like Michael Vartan. Of course it might be nice to have a non-Hollywood guy. At the same time, I think she wants to keep her name ‘out there.’ (Tho’ this doesn’t seem that interesting…) I like her in a lot of ways but if she hadn’t been with Affleck she would not be anywhere near in the public eye so much now based on her more recent acting work. I watched Alias for the first time last year and she was so good in it.
My guess is the children’s mother preferred they were really serious before agreeing to that.
LOL The children’s mother can’t agree to something. She has no hold over that. Kids can meet other kids. They aren’t living together. The kids’ mother had a relationship and was taking them back and forth to the Bahamas. Bonding with other children of a mom’s boyfriend takes a long time. Do you really think it would be detrimental for them to be around each other here and there and if they break up these kids are going to be devastated? They aren’t living together. The kids would be more devastated to lose their best friends at school.
John’s wife may even live in the Bahamas now with the kids after she got engaged, now married.
I just believe Jen and John seem very responsible and it would just be casual outings every once in a while, not all thrown together like a family until they were super serious.
Isn’t what RoyalBlue said that what Jen did for years that you agreed with in past post.
thank you coco. her last paragraph said it all.
It seems far fetched that they hadn’t met each other’s kids until now, but if it’s true, HUGE kudos to both of them for being so responsible. My now stepdaughter was asking me to marry her dad and “be my mom” from the very beginning and it would have been devastating to her if we had broken up after she had gotten attached to me and the idea of us as a family unit. My husband and I knew we were heading towards marriage before anyone met anyone.
This is sweet. I hope she’s happy.
LOL I don’t believe this. I think those kids have already been around each other. Her kids are older now. They aren’t going to bond with kids of their mom’s boyfriend just because they are around each other for barbecues, etc., every once in a while. It will just be, oh, John’s kids are around on Sunday. No huge attachment, if they broke up, unless they are around each other all of the time. The last thing I read was, oh, Jen will never live with John unless they are married. Now it’s they are going to move in together. All of it is conjecture. Jen, nor her friends, are releasing that private info.
They haven’t already? I’m all for taking it slow when it comes to children but they had know each other for awhile. Oh well, better than JLo’s children who meet their mom’s boyfriends, their kids, become attached then never see them again after the breakup.
The first photo shocked me. Jen in a cute outfit. Then I scrolled down and saw the others lol. Her street style strikes again.
I’m gonna suggest that Jen is way more controlling about who has access to her kids on her watch. She’s aware that her ex-husband has an addictive personality, so (it’s my hypothesis) she likely keeping the home base stable with very little disruptions.
Hang on guys. Unless I’m reading this wrong, this says that they HAVE met each others kids before now, just that the kids haven’t met each other. Which seems reasonable.
I think you’re right. US weekly had something the beginning of 2019 in how John would spend nights playing board games with Jen & the kids. And looking at his ex wife’s Instagram she obliquely mentioned Jen in 2019 when comparing her cooking video to “the informal cooking videos of a much more talented celebrity chef in my bubble of life” so sounds like she and her kids had met Jen. I think the US weekly source is neither Jen, her team nor John but someone more removed because she is really making an effort to keep him and his kids out of the gossip press.
His ex wife (from whom he had a v messy divorce) seems to spend a lot of time with the kids in the Bahamas and they’re part of a blended family with her current husband. They’re all over her Instagram too. So I think this is coming from Jen’s end.
Didn’t US Weekly say he and his kids went skiing with her family a few Christmases ago?
He’s done a few video interviews and I don’t get his appeal at all but she deserves all the happiness.
Yes that’s why I think Jen or her team have nothing to do with these leaks.The above blurb kinda makes no sense from what they’ve reported before. Say about her what you will, but she’s not sloppy that way and I think she works to keep him (and by extension his kids) out of the press as much as she can. I don’t think we’ll see her ever posting pictures of all the kids posing on the beach like his ex does.