Jennifer Garneris opening up about how her children have handled growing up with their famous parents in the spotlight.
When asked how paparazzi attention impacted her children — son Samuel, 9, and daughters Seraphina, 12, and Violet, 15 — Garner responds, “We’ll have to ask them when they’re older.”
“When they were smaller and there were things out there that were shocking, my request to them was always, ‘Let Dad and I talk you through whatever it is,’ " she says. “I’d tell them, ‘If you see an image on the front of a magazine, I’ll look at it with you and we’ll process all the scary feelings that come up together.’ "
Garner recalls her oldest, Violet, speaking about paparazzi while a kindergartener: “She stood up on a chair in a little velvet dress, with her hair a bit back and her glasses on and she didn’t say her R’s right, and she said: ‘We didn’t ask for this. We don’t want these cameras, they’re scary. The men are scary, they knock each other over and it’s hard to feel like a kid when you’re being chased.’ "
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Garner, who shares her kids with ex-husbandBen Affleck, says the constant cameras following them “put so much anxiety in our little family.”
During a conversation on PBS’Tell Me More With Kelly Corriganin October, Garner explained that while she understood the constant attention was a “cost of doing business,” it eventually came to a point where it began tonegatively affect her kids.
“For 10 years, there were at the very least six cars and often 20 outside of our house, and outside of school, and at the pediatrician’s,” she recalled at the time. “And you’re begging them, ‘Please step aside from the pediatrician’s door. I have a sick kid. Please.’ "
“Anywhere that we went it was a total circus,” she said before recalling one example: “My one daughter tried to play soccer and it was such a zoo for the families that they just said, ‘Can you please not.’ "
source: people.com
