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Jennifer Garner LOVES Being Pregnant!

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Jennifer Garner LOVES Being Pregnant!

Sassy Smith — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:08:00 GMT

Jennifer Garner is mom to Violet, 3, and Seraphina, 4 months, and the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past actress said she loves being pregnant! Does this mean she's definitely going to go for a third child? Husband Ben Affleck did say he'd love to have a son, too.

Jen and Ben and their two girls, recently moved into a new home in Los Angeles - bigger home, bigger family? Makes you wonder, right?

Garner, 37, says her life is more balanced, now that she's a mother - she can combine work, movie premieres and kids and remain "super-chill," at least some of the time!

"I used to do nothing but work," she said. "So now my life is much more balanced."

She adds, "I just really love, love, love being pregnant and being home and diving into the whole world of it, making dinner and baking bread and taking my daughter to school."

I can absolutely see these two having a third child. Although, they'll probably wait for a while - Sera is still an infant!

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Jennifer Garner Reveals The SECRET To Seraphina's Name!

Sassy Smith — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Jennifer Garner and husband Ben Affleck welcomed their second daughter - Seraphina - four months ago, and the couple have been asked by media why they decided on that particular name for their baby. Wonder no more - Jen is dishing the secret!

Jen admits they were "bullied" by older daughter Violet, 3, to name her "Sara." Here's how it went down:

Violet had a premonition early on in Jen's pregnancy that she was expecting a girl. "Violet, ever since she figured out that I was pregnant, she said, 'Oh that's Sara,' admitted Jennifer. "And we didn't kow if it was a boy or a girl, so we're like, 'Oh, we'll see.'

"We didn't know where she came up with it but she said Sara consistently the whole time. And we kept saying she's not going to name the kid, she's a baby. We'll decide and we'll figure it out."

However, Jen and Ben compromised with Violet and chose a name - Seraphina Rose (Sera for short) - everyone was happy with.

Garner, 37, added, "A week into it (after giving birth) we hadn't decided. So we just went with what Violet wanted... and the thing we liked about it was it meant angel in every language. She gets her way sometimes."

It really is a pretty name - great job Violet!

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Jennifer Garner: I Fake It Like Any Working Mom

Sassy Smith — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:06:00 GMT

Jennifer Garner, who now has two daughters, said she feels the same pressures as any other working mom, and she's not nearly as together as she appears.

Garner, 37, spoke with PEOPLE at the premiere of her latest movie, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. She said being mom to two girls now - Violet, 3 and Seraphina almost 4 month - presents challenges.

"I fake it like any working mom, and I run out the door. If you looked in my bag, there's a sippy cup in there right now!"

Jen said those challenges arise, particularly when she's working.

"[I] feel like half my brain is somewhere else all the time, but when the camera's rolling, I pull it together and focus for two minutes, and then I kind of turn back to a ditz again. I have a split personality."

But, despite the challenges, Jennifer is a proud mom.

Her costar Lacey Chabert said, "She's such a good mom. I admire her so much. Her little girl is so smart and you can tell she really spends time with her. I just admire her that she can balance all of it."

She looks pretty put together to me!

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Violet & Seraphina Affleck: Cutest Sisters Ever!

Sassy Smith — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:09:00 GMT

Violet and Seraphina Affleck showed off their cuteness as they strolled with mom Jennifer Garner and dad Ben Affleck, in Boston, MA, on Tuesday, April 28.

More pics after the jump!

Looks like they've got their hands full!

Jennifer has said going from one kid to two, was almost like going from one to four, but she and Ben are getting in the swing of being parents to two little girls. They're learning to balance family life with work and also make sure they have time for each other!

Such a great looking family.

More photos at the 'source' below.

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Jennifer Garner: I'm Fat & Happy!

Sassy Smith — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:08:00 GMT

Jennifer Garner gave birth to her second child - daughter Seraphina Rose - on December 1, 2008, and she wasn't in any rush to get back to her pre-baby weight. She took her time, and used her secret weapon and is happy with where she is.

During an interview with the Sunday Herald, Jen dishes on kids, husband Ben Affleck and her latest flick, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

Jennifer says being a mom of two is definitely more work:

"It's a juggle, for sure. It's something I try to figure out every day. For example, my baby is in the next room just now so at some point I'm going to say, I'm sorry, I have to take a quick break.' You just really rely on people's kindness and leniency and patience. These days, with work, I come in and I go. You don't want to sit and chat. You want to get in and get to work. And, definitely, every bit of the day is planned and revolves around the children. Having two is kind of blowing my mind."

In Garner's new movie, costar Matthew McConaughey's character has a line: "Love makes you weak, dependent and fat." Jennifer agrees!

"That can be true. Look at me. I'm 20lbs heavier (this interview was done two months after she gave birth) than before. But I'm fat and happy." I'm disagreeing with her - she's definitely not fat, and she wasn't even two months after she popped Seraphina out!

Jen and Ben were married four years ago, on the Turks and Caicos Islands, when she was three months pregnant with daughter Violet.

Garner said "having kids is a much bigger commitment than getting married." She is much more at ease talking about being a mother than discussing her married life. "I just sound like a women's magazine whenever anyone asks me that. It's such a huge thing to talk about that I don't feel very eloquent about it. I can't remember what I was like before, so I don't know how it's changed me. It just is, obviously, the hugest thing."

How does Jennifer handle being a working mom with two kids?

"I think it's difficult for every working mother," she admits. "For me, I have it easier than most. We made this movie 11 months ago and I've had all this time off, to be home, to be adjusting to pre-school, to be making dinner every night. Now I'm doing a day of work and everyone at home is like, Where are you going? What do you mean, you're working?' "Acting is a great working mom's job and I have help, although it's always complicated. When I first hear about a job, my immediate reaction is, I can't do it. I don't want to do it,' but there's a pull. I love my job. I love what I do and I think that it's a huge decision to stay at home and not have that, particularly given the flexibility that I have. But I now have to love something almost too much in order to say yes to it because I just want to hang out with my girls. I didn't anticipate that. I thought that I was much more of a careerist than that."

Will she and Ben ever work together again on a film?

"No, no, no. It doesn't work. It never works. It would just feel so incredibly weird," she says. "I couldn't do a scene with him for all the tea in China."

Jen said it took her a while, but she eventually found "the one" in Ben.

"I've had some horrendous blind dates and also some horrendous dates with guys I had known for years, who had been friends and finally they had said, 'Oh, I'm going to take you out.' I do think that if you want to ask somebody out for dinner for the first time, you don't pull out your credit card and say, 'Wanna split it?' These situations can be so awkward."

She added, the dating field as an adult is "a nightmare."

Jennifer and her kids are often photographed while out - she's not happy about it, but tries not to read any of the things written about her.

She said Ben has "taught me that you cannot read that stuff in the tabloids. It's poison. It's horrible to read anything written about you. I would read the positive stuff if somebody went through it first, just to make myself feel good. But it's too dangerous because one sentence will be positive and the next is just cutting your head off, so I just stay away from all of it. We try our very, very best to stay out of that world. We try to be boring."

The former Alias star said men still come on to her - even though she's obviously married and a mother.

"Men will still come up to me with pick-up lines. I find that really amazing. Oh yeah, guys do love a pregnant girl," she says with a smile.

What dating advice will she pass on to her girls?

"Respect would be a huge, huge part of that," she says. "I can't even think about it. It just makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. So, yeah, they should demand respect. Demand it. Absolutely, you have to be a self-confident woman to demand respect from a man.

"And it doesn't hurt to learn a good right hook." Husband Ben is all set for when their girls date!

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Sassy Smith — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:05:00 GMT

Jennifer Garner gave birth to her second child - daughter Seraphina - in January, and just about four months later, she's looking great! How did she do it? Well, let me tell you, she has a secret weapon and I think you're going to like her attitude...

Chocolate! Yes, chocolate is Jen's secret weapon! See? This is why I like Jennifer Garner.

Jennifer, 37, didn't want to rush to get back into her pre-baby clothes or be too thin, so she took things slow and also has a little sweet treat when she gets a craving.

"I'm doing what I can. I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good," she said. "If that means a little bite of chocolate, I do that but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

"I’m through that. 'Oh, that was so hard. I want to have a bowl of ice cream.' "I just try to be smart and consistent about the way I work out. If you demand of yourself to work out hard six days a week, you sooner or later say, 'Screw it!' I just try work out at least twice a week if I can."

You know, I've done the chocolate diet before and it didn't work. Mind you, it may be because I ate the whole two pound slab of chocolate and not just a "bite" as Jen said.

She looks great, though!

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InStyle: Jennifer Garner Is Sweet & Sexy

Sassy Smith — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:10:00 GMT

Jennifer Garner graces the cover of InStyle's May issue and inside she talks about her family, being a mom of two beautiful girls, and the challenges motherhood brings - such as being a working mom and losing the baby weight.

Here are a few highlights from InStyle:

Jen says their morning routine is sometimes challenging, with her nursing Seraphina Rose, now four months (three months at the time of the interview), and Violet, 3, needing to be ready for preschool.

Daddy Ben [Affleck] helps out, and "will do the school run" but his ponytail skills aren't the greatest.

"He dresses [Violet] and does her hair. It's pretty funny. You can always tell when he has been at it, just two random barrettes hanging in there. It's so sweet."

The bedtime routine for them is sometimes just as chaotic.

Jen said, "Violet wanted me to rock her. The baby was ready to nurse. Ben was doing something or other and trying to have a conversation wiwth me in the middle of the night for some reason." The couple is sometimes lacking in sleep, as most parents of new babies experience.

Jennifer and Ben are enjoying their baby girl -Sera - as they call her.

"I'm so sure of her sweetness as a person," gushes Jennifer. "We’ve only known her for a few months, but she’s taught me that there’s an innate goodness in people that’s real, and it’s there from birth."

They are, of course, just as smitten with older daughter, Violet. Jennifer credits her 3-year-old with teaching her "to slow down and appreciate things."

She added, "Once, when she was 6-months-old, I was nursing her and kind of in a hurry. I was impatient, and she was really taking her time, just staring at the ceiling. So I looked up, and the way the light was playing on the ceiling was so beautiful. I wouldn’t have noticed that on my own."

Since becoming parents of two, their family dynamic has changed - which always does when you go from one child, to a second.

"At first, it's weird to give up that singular relationship with your firstborn. You want to have that relationship with your second." Jen admits it takes time to adjust and refers to it as "switching your mind over."

Jen said, "The other day Ben said 'she' about taking care of the kids, and I said, ‘No, it’s 'they.' We have two of them now.' It’s a great thing that happens, the exponential growth between child and parents."

The 37-year-old actress said Violet has been wonderful as a big sister and the transition was "amazing" and she even helped in selecting her sibling's name.

When the baby was born, Jen and Ben hadn't decided what they'd call her but Violet liked the name "Sarah." When she arrived, Jennifer said she was "so angelic." She added, "Seraphina means angel, and it exists in several languages. It’s Hebrew, but it’s found in many cultures - which we liked."

Despite things going well after Sera's arrival, Jennifer admits it's hard juggling a preschooler and a newborn.

"[Violet] has the normal 3-year-old meltdowns. When you’re breastfeeding one and the other is crying, you think, 'Huh…I don’t know what to do.'"

How does Jennifer combine motherhood and working?

She has learned to stay focused on Ben and the kids when she's home. "I growl at anyone who wants me to do something while I’m with my kids," Jennifer admits. "I say, 'No I’m at home, back off!'" However, when she's on set, Jen is in "work mode." Ben is able to take over at home with the kids.

She said, "We've tried really hard to switch it off. So far it's working. I've chosen jobs that weren't as demanding as some can be."

What about the baby weight? Is Jen in a hurry to shed it?

No - she's not concerned about losing the weight in a record amount of time. Six weeks after giving birth to Seraphina, Jennifer had to be refitted for re-shoots on one of her latest films, This Side of the Truth - due out in September. Jen said she weighed 20 pounds more than she did when the film was originally shot, but she's not sweating it.

A confident Jennifer said, "It is what it is. I would think I looked appropriate for someone who had a baby six weeks before. What am I going to do, not eat?"

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Ben Affleck: Rocking Chair & Rifle Ready When Daughters Start Dating

Sassy Smith — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:07:00 GMT

Ben Affleck has two daughters - Violet, 3, and Seraphina, 5 months - and although it'll be many years before his girls start dating, he's got it all planned out as to how he'll handle things. Rocking chair - check. Rifle - check. He's all set!

Ha, typical dad, right? He knows what most 16-year-old boys have on their minds and he's going to be prepared to introduce himself to Violet and Seraphina's prospective dates.

During a recent interview, Matt Lauer asked Ben how he'll cope when his girls start dating. Ben's response? "I'm already planning on it - practicing the rocking-chair-and-rifle-routine."

He's such a cute dad!

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If Violet Affleck Has Messy Hair - It's Daddy Ben's Fault!

Sassy Smith — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Violet Affleck, one of the cutest celebrity kids around, may, on occasion have messy hair - her mom Jennifer Garner freely admits this. However, it's not Jen's fault - she's blaming husband Ben Affleck!

From May's InStyle:

Jennifer said, "Ben [Affleck] will do the school run. He dresses her and does her hair. It's pretty funn. You can always tell when he has been at it, just two random barrettes hanging in there. It's so sweet."

Garner, 37, is pretty casual with her own style, too. "I never go nuts with my look. It's easy to feel like you've gone into caricature territory when you do."

She added, "I wear less makeup than earlier in my career, but I know a lot more about it now."

I love this family - they seem so normal and down to earth and have such adorable kids!

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Ben Affleck Worries Daughters Will See His Video Spoof

Sassy Smith — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:01:00 GMT

Ben Affleck, who filmed the song 'I'm Bleeping Ben Affleck' with Jimmy Kimmel last year - in retaliation to Jimmy's then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon's 'I'm Bleeping Matt Damon' - is now worried. He's afraid his daughters, Violet, 3, and Seraphina, 5 months, will one day see it when they're old enough to surf the net.

Affleck is afraid his kids will one day stumble across his comedy sketch with Kimmel, and they'll hear him swearing and pretending to have the hots for the late-night talk show host.

Ben said, "It was really great.

"I like Jimmy a lot, he's a great guy. That experience was a lot of fun. It was one of those things where I thought 'Will the Internet still be around when my kids are teenagers?'"

Oh yes, Ben, the Internet isn't going anywhere. You may want to prepare yourself - your kids will see it at some point and although the rest of us thought it was funny, I can almost guarantee, they will be mortified! "Oh dad," they'll groan.

And just for fun, here's the video his girls will eventually see. While everything is bleeped out, it's not for young'ens.

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