Perhaps you have never noticed, but we do not all like the same thing!
We choose between vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
We choose between McDonald's, Berger King, and Wendy's.
We choose between Coke, Pepsi, and Sam's Club soda.
We choose between the Steelers, the Patriots, or the Broncos.
We choose between Ford, Chevrolet, and Subaru.
And, we sure don't all go to the same movies!!
Or play the same music!!
Different strokes for different folks.
He married her on the rebound. And, she tricked Ben into marrying her! (They got married June 29, 2005 and Violet was born on December 1, 2005; the oldest trick in the book.) You can SAY that doesn't matter anymore, but it STILL DOES! It attests to character and it seems as if those who ignore hundreds of years of societal rules, are more likely to make a mess of their lives.
She reminds me of a laborers child from nowhere; nondescript with coarse features; straight legs and stringy hair. The notion that she spent years practicing ballet is laughable; I can see her as "I Love Lucy at the barre," when Lucille Ball got her foot caught and was hanging from the barre like a monkey. for the past 10 years, It seems as if "motherhood" is just too much for Jennifer, even with "help in the house." For years, she has taken the children out with no sense of pride; IOW, looking like messes. She doesn't seem to know how to comb the girls' hair. Or iron their dresses. Or match their tops and bottoms. Or even dress them for the same weather. I have seen Violet in a filmy sundress (or nightgown) standing on a busy street corner in the sunshine, with her glasses hanging off her face, very crooked, like she just crawled out of bed, while Seraphina is wearing a lined parka, and heavy boots (and has to be sweating like a trooper). Does Garner ever LOOK at those kids before cranking up the SUV, and taking them out in public? (No, I don't expect the kids to be bandbox, like crazy Diana, but I have NEVER seen Violet with combed hair, and her glasses fitting properly. The kids too often look like they were taken straight out of bed and told to be in the car in 5 minutes. There are WAY too many pictures of the Garner-Affleck family; it isn't normal, as if Garner, Affleck, and the brats were the predecessors of the Kardashians.
I often wondered if she pulled the other Diana trick, of calling the paparazzi every day, so she would have all those great pics of HERSELF, and the kids, that she couldn't get any other way, and for free, and were also published in glossy magazines, and also served to increase her popularity to the world. It worked for Diana (and drove the Palace, and Prince Charles, and Scotland Yard, and her own security detail frantic, because of the danger, but she refused to stop calling her "friends" in the paparazzi, who flattered her to keep the "normally" restricted information flowing freely). Diana called them daily and never stopped until 1997 when the paparazzi were partially blamed for her death. Evidently, Ben must have not cared; he was the only one who could put a stop to it and didn't. Or, he tried and gave up. Or, he thought the tabloid press were just so crazy about HIS family that they followed them around and found their usual haunts (the park by the house, the farmer's market, the main street corners in town) and just happened to show up. Whatever the reason, the Garner-Afflecks were followed by the paparazzi, which was odd, since they were not more popular than hundreds of other "movie star" families, and certainly not that good looking, but for the paparazzi, they were easy pickings.
Ben is practically patrician. WHY did he marry so far beneath him? It rarely works out well; everyone knows but the principals who are ALWAYS certain that in their case, all will be well, but it almost NEVER works out that way.
Their children favor their mother; Ben must wonder where his genetics are in the mix. Kids always suffer in the broken home scenario. WHY did she have so many; trying to tie him down? She had to know it was an "iffy" marriage. Reese Witherspoon admitted she had another kid to try to keep Philippe. Did Garner try the same tactic with Affleck? It appears that she "copied" the tactics of Diana, and Reese, and who else? She must have spent a lot of time with those glossy magazines, the kind that had pix of Diana and kids, and Reese and kids, and . . . Jennifer and kids!!! It appears that her motives were to make herself REALLY popular, but not spend any money doing it. (Ben is notoriously cheap and she isn't very clever; just sneaky.)
I am sorry for both of them; but more for him than her. She has done a whole lot of "orchestration" with only herself in mind. Rather than having a trial period (with just the two of them) to see if it was going to work, she forced the issue with a kid right off the bat, then another, then another, and then she woke up and found out the marriage wasn't working. Geez, and the first clue was . . . . . ? She was SO EAGER to land the big fish that she forgot common sense, fairness, honesty, and decency. She just HAD to trap him, and she did, and what does she have now? Another broken home and that is just plain sad and selfish.
And, that is why I do NOT find her the least bit beautiful! Way too many flaws, unfocused, and too many unresolved problems.
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