{"id":223786,"date":"2026-02-19T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/jennifer-garner-reveals-exactly-what-her-and-ben-afflecks-kids-think-of-her-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:21","slug":"jennifer-garner-reveals-exactly-what-her-and-ben-afflecks-kids-think-of-her-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/jennifer-garner-reveals-exactly-what-her-and-ben-afflecks-kids-think-of-her-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner reveals exactly what her and Ben Affleck&#8217;s kids think of her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-02-19\" datetime=\"1771509621\" pubdate=\"\">19 February 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jennifer-garner\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jennifer-garner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Garner<\/a>&#8216;s children think she is &#8220;fully cringe&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Jennifer Garner reveals exactly what her and Ben Affleck&#8217;s kids think of her<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old actress has three kids, Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13, with her ex, fellow Hollywood megastar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ben-affleck\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ben-affleck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Affleck<\/a>, 53, but the trio find their mother &#8220;embarrassing&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>When asked on The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jennifer-hudson\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jennifer-hudson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Hudson<\/a> Show what she does to gain &#8220;cool points&#8221; from her kids, she said: &#8220;I am fully cringe. I am only embarrassing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garner recently asked her offspring if they are planning to watch the second season of her latest Apple TV+ series, The Last Thing He Told Me, but they weren&#8217;t keen. <\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;I asked my kids if they were going to watch this season of the show [season 2], and they were like, \u2018Do you need us to?\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But I mean, kids don\u2019t want to see their parents in &#8230; right? <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;They don\u2019t want to see us cry, or see us have a romantic scene, or anything. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We\u2019re just embarrassing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Garner admitted being on Hudson&#8217;s show will have landed her some &#8220;cool points&#8221;, as is starring opposite Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau &#8211; who played Jamie Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama &#8211; in The Last Thing He Told Me. <\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s because Garner admitted her son Samuel is &#8220;really into Game of Thrones right now&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>\nLast month, Jennifer Garner described her kids as &#8220;so cool&#8221;, but she told how her parenting style has changed since her children stepped into their teenage and adult years. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe told Marie Claire UK: &#8220;Parenting now has shifted. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It\u2019s more about parenting with a button on my mouth. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;You have to let them grow up and make their choices. You don\u2019t get to control it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nGarner also told how she is &#8220;so proud of how they walk through the world, and proud of them for trying hard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the star admitted it is &#8220;the hardest thing&#8221; navigating the spotlight being on her family. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;Not hard in the grand scheme of what is hard in the world, but tricky for me and tricky for my family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/jennifer-garner-reveals-exactly-ben-afflecks-kids-think-1437946.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 February 2026 Jennifer Garner&#8216;s children think she is &#8220;fully cringe&#8221;. Jennifer Garner reveals exactly what her and Ben Affleck&#8217;s kids think of her The 53-year-old actress has three kids, Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13, with her ex, fellow Hollywood megastar Ben Affleck, 53, but the trio find their mother &#8220;embarrassing&#8221;. 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