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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Jennifer Garner's children think she is "fully cringe"

    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 "embarrassing".


    When asked on The Jennifer Hudson Show what she does to gain "cool points" from her kids, she said: "I am fully cringe. I am only embarrassing."

    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't keen.

    She added: "I asked my kids if they were going to watch this season of the show [season 2], and they were like, 'Do you need us to?'

    "But I mean, kids don't want to see their parents in ... right?

    "They don't want to see us cry, or see us have a romantic scene, or anything.

    "We're just embarrassing."

    However, Garner admitted being on Hudson's show will have landed her some "cool points", as she is starring opposite Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - who played Jamie Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama - in The Last Thing He Told Me.

    That's because Garner admitted her son Samuel is "really into Game of Thrones right now".

    Last month, Jennifedescribed her kids as "so cool", but she told how her parenting style has changed since her children stepped into their teenage and adult years.

    She told Marie Claire UK: "Parenting now has shifted.

    "It's more about parenting with a button on my mouth.

    "You have to let them grow up and make their choices. You don't get to control it."

    Garner also told how she is "so proud of how they walk through the world, and proud of them for trying hard".

    But the star admitted it is "the hardest thing" navigating the spotlight being on her family.

    She said: "Not hard in the grand scheme of what is hard in the world, but tricky for me and tricky for my family."

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