Jennifer Garner and Reese Witherspoon.Photo:Monica Schipper/Getty
Monica Schipper/Getty
Jennifer Garnercan always count onReese Witherspoonfor support.
Garner, 51, said that the actress and producer, 47, was there for her during a “very public, very hard moment in my life” during a panel discussion at Hello Sunshine’s Inaugural Shine Away Event in Los Angeles Saturday.
“I think back to being pregnant. This one [Witherspoon] was sitting next to me,” Garner — who was on the panel with Witherspoon andMindy Kaling— shared. “I think back to going through a very public, very hard moment in my life. She was right there and the way I needed to get through it was dance cardio."
TheYes Dayactress did not disclose the difficult moment she was referring to, but she did go on to share her and Witherspoon’s experiences of the athletic form of dance.
“And I danced cardio-d so hard, we broke her foot, but she kept going!” she said. “It was like, okay, we worked out at seven on vacation, we’re going to work out again at two. She was like, ‘I’m going to be there. I’m going to be there.' "
(L-R) Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Fortune Feimster at Hello Sunshine’s Shine On event on Saturday.Monica Schipper/Getty
GarnermarriedBen Affleckin 2005 and the pair divorced in 2018. They sharethree children, daughters Violet, 17, and Seraphina, 13, and son Samuel, 11. Affleck, 51, remarriedJennifer Lopezin July 2022.
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Jennifer Garner spoke about her friendship with Reese Witherspoon on a panel at Hello Sunshine’s Shine Away event on Saturday.Presley Ann/Getty
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At the event, Garner also spoke about how Witherspoon had provided space for her and other actresses to be able to speak freely about their industry without being silenced or supervised.
“Those meetings happened at Reese’s house. And it was the first time I’d ever sat down with that many actresses in the same room that we weren’t passing each other in an award show in big dresses, where we just sat,” the13 Going On 30star continued. “We’ve been siloed off the one place.”
Garner divorced from Ben Affleck in 2018.Dave M. Benett/Getty
“The place that doesn’t happen, the place that started the change where that no longer can happen is Hello Sunshine. It’s just true,” Garner stated.
Kaling, 44, also spoke highly of Witherspoon during the panel, describing her as “obviously so funny and so talented,” before going on to praise her “as a friend, the person who can tell you tough things and you believe her.”
TheHome Againactress described the event as “a dream come true” in aposton her Instagram Story afterward.
“Loved, loved, loved talking with these two about the power of connection,” Witherspoon wrote as she tagged aphotoof Garner and Kaling at the event.
source: people.com
