Britian’s The Sun did an interview with Jennifer where she talked about her divorce from ex-husband Scott Foley and how crushing divorce was for her. She talks about her marriage to Ben Affleck and her feelings for him & his relationship with their daughters.
JENNIFER GARNER became famous at 30 as CIA action girl Sydney Bristow in the TV series Alias.
It launched a successful film career, with hits including Daredevil, 13 Going On 30 and Juno.
She married second husband Ben Affleck in 2005 and they have daughters Violet, six and three-year-old Seraphina. Jennifer, 39, is pregnant again and her new movie Butter is out soon.
With her 40th birthday looming, she tells GARTH PEARCE what she wishes she had known aged 18.
I WISH I had known that so many women feel much more comfortable at an older age.
In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd. If you put me next to the girls who came out of the womb with cute hair and clothes and shoes, then I looked different.
But I had a good life, growing up in a small town with normal, beautiful women who took pride in their homes and raised their kids. They were gracious and kind.
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy. The outside world can be very tough.
When I moved away from all that, at 18, I felt uncomfortable and awkward.
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
They put me through an expensive college with their life savings because I was supposed to be a chemical engineer or a doctor.
But when I changed to a theatre degree, they never criticised or said: “You are nuts.”
After that, I moved to New York, which was even more crazy. I got a job as an understudy in a play on 600 dollars (£380) a month and my rent, sleeping on a futon, was 400 dollars (£253). So money was tight.
When I started out, I was a waitress. Steve Martin used to come in to the restaurant. When I finally met him, years later, he looked at me as if he knew me. “Didn’t you audition with me or something?” he asked.
I said: “No, but I used to wait on you at table five every day.”
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