Jennifer Garner recently stepped out in public to fetch her eldest daughter, Violet from her ex-husband Ben Affleck’s home.
A photo of the mother and daughter duo shows Garner wearing a face mask while driving her private vehicle. Violet, 14, is sitting beside her mom on the passenger seat.
The teenager reportedly spent a few days with her dad while they are on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Violet has been living permanently with the “13 Going On 30” star, but she visits Affleck at the actor’s home every now and then.
However, this doesn’t mean that Violet has already met Affleck’s new girlfriend, Ana de Armas, who has been self-isolating with the actor throughout the past couple of weeks. In fact, a source told Woman’s Day Australia that Garner is not yet ready to allow her three children to meet de Armas.
“Ben might be convinced that Ana’s ‘The One’ – but Jen isn’t so sure yet. She’s watched Ben have fling after fling since they split and doesn’t want to confuse the kids more. Jen feels the kids are at an impressionable age and have been through enough already. It’s going to take Ben putting a ring on Ana’s finger for Jen to believe she’s any different from the other girls,” the source said.
Another source confidently told Us Weekly that it’s only a matter of time before Garner hangs out with Affleck and de Armas together with her kids. However, no one is pressuring Garner to bond with her ex-husband and his new girlfriend and everyone’s giving her time.
Affleck and Garner were together for years before they announced their divorce in 2015. At that time, the former couple cited their irreconcilable differences as the main reason behind their split. However, rumors swirled that Affleck cheated on Garner with their children’s nanny.
During her interview with Vanity Fair, Garner denied the claims that it was Affleck’s cheating that caused their marriage to fall apart. She said that she and her ex-husband have already called it quits even before she found out about Affleck’s alleged affair with the nanny.
Garner stressed the fact that Christine Ouzounian had nothing to do with her and Affleck’s decision to divorce. After all, the nanny wasn’t part of the equation.
Other sources claimed that it was Affleck’s alcohol addiction that drove a wedge between him and Garner. But even after their split, the “Peppermint” star continued to support her ex-husband’s sobriety.