OlderSun, 10 June 2007 at 10:59 pm
Mommy-Baby Bonding for Jen & Violet
You may remember seeing some photos of Jennifer Garner and her 18-month-old daughter, Violet, playing near the Palisades Park on Thursday.
The mother-daughter duo spent over an hour playing on the slides and swinging on the swings before doing some laps around the fields.
Violet seemed especially playful as she sat in her mother’s lap in the grass. What a perfect day to be outside!
40+ photos inside of the Garner and Violet enjoying their Thursday afternoon…
Credit: Doobybrain (guest blogger); Photos: Perkins/Symons/Pacificcoastnews.com
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67 Comments
I cannot stand her!! She is so ANNOYING!! This “mommy-baby bonding” photos looks so stage!!
Dark Angel you must not have any kids. I thought is one of the best and real celeb moms and her daughter is adorable!!!!
Don’t they have a backyard to play in? Or are they just interested in photo ops??
IF this was staged dont you think the kid would this behavior from her mother is strange and not being going along as she seems to be in those photos. Wanna see PR photos check out the top two threads on this site, PR kind and queen.
What a cutie-patootie. Jennifer is starting to get on my nerves, though. She definetly loves that camera.
I hope this kid doesnt grow up to look like her ugly ass mamma
I love seeing pics of Jen and Violet. She seems to be a great mom.
I agree, these park photos are getting kinda old, but I’d rather see new pics of Jen and Violet than Paris in prison-crying mode. Even though Jen has more money than I’ll probably ever see in my entire life, at least her going to the park with Violet is something that looks ordinary and normal…something we don’t see in Hollywood enough! i respect that she can just go out and look like crap without caring…just like the rest of us!
Jen’s a good mom and all, but doesn’t this kid play with any other children other than her mom?
She probably does, I just doubt that the paparazzi vultures would be interested in shooting pics of that.
I love seeing pictures of this family!! Violet looks just like Jen, only with blond hair. Violet is too cute, I love the dimples!!
How come Daddy Ben Affleck never seems to be around during these play sessions?
Just asking.
I mean there is no denying the pictures are cute and she loves her kid, but it’s just funny they always find and go to pap infested parks. There are no other parks in the world that are more private? Normal Mom? I guess so. But she wnats everyone to know she’s a “normal”. About the only person I see work it so hard other then Jennifer is Denise Richards.
She also rarely ever is playing with anyone else, so I don’t think she’s taking her there to interact. It’s like her image as super mom for the new talk show she is about to do.
The parks Garner takes Violet to are not hyena…er, paparazzi-infested until they follow her to wherever she goes (and she never asks them to follow her, either).
So cute.
Jen Garner loves to play and spend time with her baby; her smiles and body language reveal this.
awwwww.
Love that family
Always nice to see Jen spending time with her baby =)
There are ways around the paps, I don’t believe she can’t find more private parks. Jennifer is not exactly happening and exciting. I don’t think the paps are itching to take the million pictures of her at the park. She’s there so they take her picture.
You guys that are ragging on her are retarded. She has cameras in her face all day long. What is she supposed to do? Change the way she lives her life? Geez. Give a gal a break. You’re irritated because you think she likes cameras in her face all day and yet you’re the ones looking at them…
awww how cute…I love the pictures of Jen and Violet.
They are beyonde cute!!! I just LOVE this family and how Jen seems devoted to her daughter.
staged or not baby the bonding looks natural
that child is very happy and that is what matters
Typical Garner-hating troll, attacking Jen and insulting her for no reason whatsoever - now THAT’S a loser.
Everyone has their embarassing moments and Jen is no different in that regard - in this case, hers got caught on camera while most others don’t. Jen handles the attention from the hyenas…er, paparazzi well, which is more than the paps deserve.
Jen is more feminine than you care to admit, you just don’t want to see it because of your preformed (and baseless) bias against her.
There’s nothing delusional about what I stated.
Garner >>>> Jolie
Best celeb mom ever. Hands down.
She is such a good mom!
oh….that last picture.
Violet looks like a little cherub. She has such beautiful almond shaped eyes. She’s going to be a stunner.
It strikes me as odd that with their income and interest in privacy that they don’t have a lovely playground set in the back of their spacious yard—like so many families do. Why would Jen choose to be so exposed—-unless, sorry to say, these photo ops are contrived. They both have been seen lately in all kinds of ‘cute,’ very strategic scenarios. Kinda suspicious.
Also, here follows a very ‘interesting’ blind item from the CRAZY DAYS AND CRAZY NIGHTS website—for those of you who are wondering if Ben is managing to keep his demons at bay still..
#3. This former A list film actor who could maybe move back up has got heat in the past for going to strip clubs. Some say it was even the reason behind at least one relationship going bust. Therefore our actor hides behind the computer. He goes online to webcam girls where he can be who he wants and do what he wants with anyone and there are no repercussions. In 2006 he spent about $50,000 on webcam girls. At $2.00 a minute that would mean he spent about 5% of the year online staring at them.
you guys are freakin lame. give the girl a break, she’s just having fun with her kid.
Ashley | 06/11/2007 at 4:43 am
“you guys are freakin lame. give the girl a break, she’s just having fun with her kid.”
Ashley, your bashing of Jen for no reason just reflects what kind of person you really are - jealous, cruel, bitter and small-minded, not to mention ignorant and a brainless sheep.
I have not seen Violet playing with other kids at the park so far.
When I want to play with my daughter, we spend time together in the backyard of our house. When she likes to play with other kids, I take her to the park.
Jen was not followed by the papparazzis a lot before Ben. Now her daughter. I don’t know what to say. Jen and Denise are always around to be seen strangely.
Hey *******, Ashley was defending Garner, not attacking her. Flip the “on” switch on your brain before you write.
In case anyone’s wondering, I was talking to post 28.
In case anyone’s wondering, I was replying to post 28 above Mediterranean.
It’s always lovely to see how Jen is so devoted to her little girl! She’s just being a MOM-nothing wrong with that. A little worry though - we almost never see Jen&baby with Ben Alfleck in the park…i mean, where is he????! (don’t think he is THAT busy with his career though dunno—Brad Pitt seems much busier in his career but he gets more pics taken with kids u know…just a matter of how much they care about family???)Hope to see more -family of 3- photos taken by x17 for Afleck family!
Another picture of the exact same thing. what are we in a timewarp. Please give it a rest, Jen. Yes, Violet is quite cute but let her pay in her own backyard without the papparazzi in her face. Geez, already.
Violet isn’t even two. There is nothing wrong with her playing with her mom. I’m sure when she is 4 or 5 Jen will have her enrolled in pre k or something. I think it’s great that Jen takes the time to get out and spend the afternoon with her daughter. She probably realizes that time goes pretty fast and she wants to enjoy every minute she can with her daughter. And Ben is probably at work. And I have a playset in the backyard. All kids love going to the playground. It’s good that Jen doesn’t let the photogs.bother her playtime with violet. She is a wonderful mom!!!
I was thinking like most of you that Jen likes to take her daughter to the park and the papparazzis are wandering around everywhere to take a photo of any celebrity.
But then I saw the photos of her with Violet and Ben coming back from somewhere in and out of the airport, I have changed my mind. It was obviously dark and there was a photo of Jen who was putting Violet in her car-seat and the window or most probably the door of car from the child carseat side was widely open. On top of it Jen was posing for the cameras. All the flashes were on Violet’s face and they were close. Please do go back a few pages back on JJ and find that thread. You will understand what I mean. Pardon for my poor English.
Hey, Too Much Said = Typical hating troll, attacking and insulting for no reason whatsoever - now THAT’S a loser.
I know a hell of a lot more about Jennifer Garner’s persona than you do or ever will - and THAT is a fact. You, Too Much Said, are a fair-weather “fan”. That could be said about you believing the lie you were told about Jen - and your insistence on claiming it as the truth when you know DAMN WELL that it’s a lie makes you just as stupid as the trolls who infest this board.
She can’t use her own backyard coz she wanna be seen in the park as much as she wants till her show about mamas starts. It’s her way to say, ‘look I’m a good mum. I spend good time with my daughter. I’m worth being on that show.’ Typical PR.
seeing her playing with Violet before was quite nice but now that’s to much. She KNOWS she’s being followed, she knows more pics will be taken of her with Violet in the park so that they can probably be shown on her mamas show to ‘prove’ how good a mother she is.
There’s no way for her to show ‘this’ if she’s behind her gates in her backyard’s playground or in the villa nursery.
I agree with you Mediterranean.
I never see Violet playing with other children!I doubt that she has little”friends”.I guess it´s all for the newspapers!Again JG at the park and again,again and again!Can´t she so anything different!When I was a child we did different things my mother NEVER took me everyday to the same park!And when we went there she let me play with the other kids in the sand and let me explore things alone!But Jen is always behing Violet she can´t let her do one step alone!She´s sooooo fake and plays still the girl next door!But in realtiy her new life is created by her managers and all these people behind her!And come one it worked out for Ben aswell!He was the stripper guy,the actor with the bad movies and everybody was annoyed after the JLo thing!Everybody laughs at him and now he is the husband and daddy type!JG was soooo good for his career that´s why this marriage workes out!Both of them won.
x17 online has a video of V this same day and she was playing with other kids. Of course the paps don’t want to take stills of other kids–so they don’t. I like the way Jen takes her daughter to the park which if you had children you would know is a lot more fun than in the backyard or house.
What about all those parents who had pictures taken at DisneyLand his weekend: Denise Sheen, Brooke Shields, Mariska Hagitay, Leah Remini, Kobe Bryant. Melissa Hart–they KNEW the paps would be there. I guess that means they’re pimping their kids, right Lainie and Mediterranean ?
I think the shoveller (#28)meant to say “Lainie” (#26) NOT Ashley. She meant to say:Lainie your bashing of Jen for no reason just reflects what kind of person you really are - jealous, cruel, bitter and small-minded, not to mention ignorant and a brainless sheep.
Lainie you need a hobby. Don’t worry about Jen and Ben–there are others you can worry about in Darfur, NEw Orleans, your own hometown. Donate all your free time to a good cause to worry about those that need worrying about.
well said Rancour
Thanks Jared, I havent seen many pics of Violet. She is adorable and looks a lot like her mother. ^_^
“A little worry though - we almost never see Jen&baby with Ben Alfleck in the park…i mean, where is he????! (don’t think he is THAT busy with his career”
Esmee, he has no career, he is not busy:
http://x17online.com/celebrities/ben_affleck/good_ben_hunting.php#comments
But now: Where is super-mommy Garner?
Hey Laurie I totally thought the same thing!I mean of course Ben spends some time with Violet but not often!He is seen with her every 2-3 weeks and now he´s out with her ONE TIME ALONE! and everybody says:”Well,he´s such a good guy and father!”But where´s JG?I bet these two are having some big issues!?JMO
Hey Laurie!I totally thought the same thing!I bet these two got some big issues JMO!
grace, I guess Ben wants his own tv show too:” The View for fathers”.
Is there really THE ONE park in LA? She’s, by going to the same park were she knows the paps expect her to be, or were she phones then to meet her is just pimping out the kid. This is low beyond words. I wish somebody gave her a job already.
you guys are silly
child looks happy are some of you blind
just because she is famous you think she would alienate her child from normal things
she wants her daughter to grow up free of this celebrity crap
she’s down to earth
BE NICE. THEY’RE SO CUTE. I LIKE THOSE PICS.
“she wants her daughter to grow up free of this celebrity ****”
Really?
angelinammm, you forget that Violet Affleck already IS a celebrity. She has her own site on IMDb.com with Biography, Filmography, STARmeter , message board etc.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509557/
I love those 2, but I wonder why papa Affleck is never around, when right now he is not on a movie project. Anyhow, regarding that she doesn’t play with any other kids, well, I’ve seen her with other kids at the park, but really, 1 year old kids don’t play with other kids. They are very attached to the person that spends the most time with them. So don’t expect her to be very playful with other kids, at least not for a while.
I’ve always mildly liked Gardner. Her image of a nice girl next door is usually well kept in her interviews. She seems endearing and… well, nice.
Her toddler is obviously cute. Not beautiful, she is too much her mother’s daughter for beauty, but utterly cute with her lovely dimples.
About the publicity seeking, well… it it obvious. Though I think celebrities should never abstain from living a real life because of public interest in them, we all know (though some do not want to acknowledge it) this Jenn-and-baby-in-the-park is a ploy for attention.
First, with all her their money, Jenn and Ben can have the best park in the world in their property; then, they can invite scores of kids to spend time there bonding with Violet. And if, for some reason, they want to go out, there are lots of parks far away from the papz objectives - we all take our kids there, don’t we?
But they insist on going out almost every day and always to very central and papz infested places. Just looking for the photo op, of course. This does not mean they are bad parents, they both seem very much in love with their little girl, but they are most definitely publicity hungry.
They are so cute.
You can just feel the love and happiness coming from them. What a lucky little girl and what a lucky Mommy.
Those of you who say she doesn’t let the paps interrup her life, I want to ask a question.
If she ignores them as you say by living her life and not caring if they take pictures, why does she alway acknowledge them with a smile or sometime by staring right into the camera and smiling. She likes the attention.
I’ve seen plenty of pictures on this site of celebrities and their kids and you know what the difference is between them and Garner? They actually do ignore the paps why having no reaction to them. Jennifer always makes sure to acknowledge that she knows the cameras are there and hams it up by grinning in the pictures. Is it normal to smile literally in every picture? Look at pictures of other celebrity parents, they look casual and go about their busines.
From Garner´s USATODAY-interview:
“She and Affleck try to keep Violet as undercover as possible. “The fact that I can be in a magazine, OK, that’s fair,” Garner says. “But why is my daughter in a magazine? She’s a baby. She didn’t choose this, and we do everything we can to protect her from it.”
Oh really Jennifer?! You do everything you can to protect her from it? You call this everyday- overexposure “protection” ?
“But why is my daughter in a magazine?” Ask youself why.
They are way too cute and look so happy! I think she is a great mom AND beautiful. I don’t understand all the hate. Much rather see her playing in the park with her way too cute daughter than some other “stars” doing all the disgusting things they do with their free time…
Hmmm, maybe Ben Affleck is involved in work that none of you know about? Producing movies, charity work, involved in politics, etc… We don’t know every aspect of all celebrity’s lives (thank god) so to assume that a marriage is on the rocks because once every week or so pictures of Jen and her daughter at the park are posted on one of these sites is QUITE an assumption.
She’s always seemed like a normal person living a normal life and going to the park with her daughter, with whom she obviously has a wonderful bond, doesn’t really seem out of the ordinary. The paps taking the pictures could certainly be using lenses on their cameras that allow them to take these photos from far away so that Jen and/or Violet aren’t even aware that they’re there. Violet certainly doesn’t look like she’s aware or scared.
Also, most moms of 1-year-old kids have playdates with other kids mostly so the moms can get together and chat. One year olds don’t really have ‘friends’ yet. Just other kids they share toys with.
looks like she is trying too hard.
Mimi #41
I am truly sorry if I offended you with my comments
I was just joining in the debate about the onslaught of photos of JenG all relatively the same: her looking housewifey and leisurely playing with her child.
Nothing wrong with that FULL STOP.
But because Jen is investing in a new tv program about ordinary moms and their childcare issues, to a lot of us these photos seem planned and set up to set the stage for Jen’s new business venture.
If Jen were true to her words (see stuff from the posters above) she would seem to me to have a big beautiful playground set in her (I’m sure) magnificent spacious backyard and have these lovely mom/daughter moments in privacy.
Its just a comment, Mimi. There is NOTHING wrong with Jen being a smart business woman while she hangs out with her child.
Separately, my comments about Ben come from things I heard about him when he was filming here in Vancouver. Some of my friends worked on his movie and they partied out with him (some of which made some bad headlines for him). The guy has a very serious dark side to say the least. He was addicted to gambling, booze and the sexy ladies.
If he’s thru with those addictions I give him credit but honestly, Mimi, he has that faraway look in his eye (like he did when he was waning on Bennifer….)
He wants a political career and needed a cleaned up image. He is a brilliant fellow and a sweetheart for the most part. But he’s got a dark side………
But I do not wish them bad things and don’t relish being right so please just see my comments and observations as just my personal opinion. Its just a passtime to analyze people we don’t know WITH people we don’t know.
Please do not take it so seriously and let’s just treat it as mindless drivel, ‘kay?
From Garner´s USATODAY-interview:
“She and Affleck try to keep Violet as undercover as possible. “The fact that I can be in a magazine, OK, that’s fair,” Garner says. “But why is my daughter in a magazine? She’s a baby. She didn’t choose this, and we do everything we can to protect her from it.”
Oh really Jennifer?! You do everything you can to protect her from it? You call this everyday- overexposure “protection” ?
“But why is my daughter in a magazine?” Ask youself why.
Ha!This is ridiculous, has she got a brain?She says she wants to protect Violet but then she´s showing her around alomst everyday!I´m not getting it!This is such a stupid chatter!Then JG should better shut up her mouth because we all see she´s doing the opposite of that what she´s saying. Yeah,poor Violet her mother is using her to get this show and to stabilize her new “supermommy” image!That´s not a good mother for me at all she´s a liar!If she´s not doing what she said in an interview why did she said it then although?
see last poster,
I can see doing a lot worse things than showing off your mothering skills in public—don’t see the need to be so angry (which is how you are coming across)
Maybe Jen is so proud of herself for having snared Ben (she SURE LOOKS IT and sounds like it!) that she loves sticking it to all his former loves especially THE BIG HOT ROMANCE with the spectacular JenLopez. She’s human,why not?
I’m not as angry at her as you seem to be but I think your point is well taken—she is definitely NOT being consistent.
At least she is being a MOM- interacting ( and clearly LOVING IT) with her child and NOT using said child to promote her own “image”- aka- Victoria “Yuck” Beckham!
Jen & Ben appear to be the most relaxed/normal family in LA LA Land who definitely have their priorities “in check” and clearly ADORE their baby girl!
Shame on you Jen-haters!
Sh’es just going to normal parks. It’s not like a lot of Paps just sit around in parks. They FOLLOW her there. PLus even if she is using it for attention, it keeps her in the public eye for when she’s ready to start making movies again.
She’s a great woman. Applause inserted here!
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i loved jen garner before she was a mom. she is just so friggin’ boring now. the paparazzi need to leave her alone, it’s like taking the exact same picture every time.
How can one tell by a picture if someone is “normal” or, a “good mom”?
I’m not a fan of Jennifer garner but she looks really happy and so does her child.Even though Violet isn’t the cutest baby.
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