Jennifer Garner on Her Works, Family and Hopes

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    How do you describe Jennifer Garner as a mother and working woman? She seems doing her mother duty so well and full of responsibility.

    Seeing her in the morning when the 37 years old actress drops her daughter Violet at school in Santa Monica, California. Joined with them, also Seraphina, 11 months, her second daughter on December 11.

    Recently she told to W Magazine about her marriage, her work and her daughters and I can say she is very responsible and caring mom.

    Her looks at home is far from the glamor world of celebrity. She has spent more time dealing with diapers and dinner than filming or posing on red carpet. Dressed in jeans and sweater plus a pair of running shoes, she’s a picture of a mother with children.

    Living as working  mother, and trying to find the balance between work and mother’s duties, she’s done quit a good job anyway. Could not leave the children while working on Valentine’s Days, Garner brought the girls to LA for shooting. And keep a consistent schedule for girls about “getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner.”

    She says, “I live my life at these two extremes. I’m either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.”

    Never thought today she’ll be a famous actress, she even didn’t know about acting. “I mean, I didn’t ever watch Gilligan’s Island and think, Those people are actors,” she says. “I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.” Still fantasized about going to medical school, she once test her college days for her daughter, Violet.

    “When my daughter has a fever, I want to be able to look in her ears myself and not have to call someone,” she says. “I want to be able to tell, Is that spot on her leg ringworm or a dry patch?”

    Felicity star has learning from her first marriage, with Scott Foley which fell apart after less than three years; the career, happily, has had a longer shelf life.
    Reunited with Ben Affleck on Elektra after Daredevil, while they both single. The friendship turned to something more.

    “We were together a year, and we just started breeding,” she says. “We were like, ‘Let’s have a baby!’ And eight days later…”

    The couple do their best to prevent their relationship into something that they had. They refused to walk on the red carpet together, especially working together. They have their own opinion.

    “I think he’s brilliant at what he does, but why rock the boat?” she says. “It works between us pretty well the way it is. I don’t know if I want to go to work with him. I’d be like, ‘Okay already, you got the shot. Let’s go home!’”

    Living under the spotlight is not fun as it’s seen. No private and normal lifes, there’s always “dodo” following. And it is the couple’s children that made Jen and Ben think of moving to Boston.

    “If I try to go to the supermarket, the police come. We talked forever about leaving Los Angeles, but anywhere you go some dodo is going to buy a camera and start following you,” she said.

    The most challenging part of parenthood, says Garner, has been balancing kids with career. It’s not a unique challenge, of course, and Garner is the first to point out that she has help.

    That’s getting harder, now that Violet is in school. As they prepare to head home to Los Angeles in November, her elder daughter is “a little nervous about whether the girls at school will already have friends,” Garner says. “We thought we could take them anywhere until they were six, but I don’t know if that’s going to work out that way.”

    Tired? Sure, but still responsibilities have to be done. “It’s hard on my family,” she says. “You can’t tell your kids, ‘I’m exhausted. Wake up with someone else today.’”

    Garner hopes to produce and star in one of the movies she’s developing through her production company, Vandalia Films, as her next project, but she’s not for sure anymore, she explains, “It’s hard because I’ve taken so much time off already,” she admits. “But I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.”

    Above all her stressful and busy life, Garner miss her girlfriends, miss settling back in at home. Just like a battery, she needs to recharged.

    “I miss my girlfriends!” she says. “That’s the hardest thing about being on location when it’s not for your own project. When it’s for you, you’re on set with everybody you know, but if not, it’s lonely. I can live with Ben working crazy hours. But I can’t live without girlfriends around to talk about men with!” she says with a laugh. “It’s fine if he’s not there; I just need someone to bitch about it to!”

    But all seems just gone when see the straightforwardness of her girls. Especially the family have to ready for the Halloween. Violet who has discovered lately about Disney princess, will be Ariel from The Little Mermaid. Seraphina will be her friend Flounder, and Ben her daddy, will be Triton, King of the Sea.

    Last year, Garner’s costume was Fred and Ted, the dogs from children’s book series of the same name. She was seven months pregnant and “I just was so fat and huge and ugly and in a furry dog costume. And of course there were tons of paparazzi outside and I couldn’t escape them!”

    This year, she got pass and have important job also for Halloween, “I’ll take pictures.”