Ben Affleck doesn’t need his children to comply with in his footsteps.
“You set one thing in your kids when you’ve got a public life, and that’s difficult,” Affleck, 53, advised E! Information in an interview revealed Wednesday, January 14, whereas discussing his three kids with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. “We actually need to give them room to determine what they need to do.”
Affleck, who shares Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13, with Garner, 53, stated he would by no means “push” his kids to develop into actors like their well-known mother and father.
“They’re sensible and wonderful and great and we love them and we’re happy with them,” he concluded earlier than joking, “And [we] hope that they don’t waste their life performing.”
Whereas Samuel and Seraphina have largely remained out of the general public eye, Violet has been utilizing her voice for activism since she was younger. When Affleck and Garner’s eldest daughter was in kindergarten, she fought for her personal privateness and performed an element in a 2013 invoice that restricted paparazzi when taking photographs of youngsters.
“Violet’s hyper-articulate — she is Ben Affleck’s daughter, and he or she stood up on a chair in a bit velvet costume, together with her hair a bit again and her glasses on and he or she didn’t say her R’s proper, and he or she stated: ‘We didn’t ask for this. We don’t need these cameras, they’re scary. The lads are scary, they knock one another over and it’s arduous to really feel like a child once you’re being chased,’” Garner recalled in a 2021 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Violet, who’s now a scholar at Yale College, has additionally attended White Home state dinners and United Nations assemblies to advocate for clear air and masks mandates following the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I contracted a post-viral situation in 2019,” Violet stated throughout an L.A. County Board of Supervisors assembly in 2024. “I’m OK now, however I noticed firsthand that drugs doesn’t all the time have solutions to the implications of even minor viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper aid.”
Later, whereas addressing the United Nations Basic Meeting in September 2025, Violet argued, “We will acknowledge filtered air as a human proper, as intuitively as we do filtered water. We will create clear air infrastructure that’s so ubiquitous and so clearly vital, in order that tomorrow’s kids don’t even know why we’d like it.”
Jennifer Garner has a particular bond with daughter Violet Affleck. Garner grew to become a mother for the primary time in 2005 when she and ex-husband Ben Affleck welcomed Violet. (The exes additionally share kids Seraphina and Sameul who had been born in 2009 and 2012, respectively.) “My eldest daughter [Violet] didn’t have a shot. She couldn’t have […]
Violet’s mother and father couldn’t be prouder of her for combating for what she believes in.
“It’s thrilling,” Garner stated of Violet beginning school throughout a 2023 look on Reside With Kelly and Mark. “I can see the stress — although the joy and stress go hand in hand. However she’s dealing with it like a champ and he or she’s completely in cost. I’m not having to say, ‘Are you doing this, are you doing this?’ She’s a self-starter. And I’m simply happy with her it doesn’t matter what.”
In the meantime, Affleck advised Entry Hollywood of Violet in 2025, “She takes after her mother. She’s spectacular. And I’m very fortunate that I bought an important accomplice and we’ve bought nice children. It’s the enjoyment of my life, and I’m simply very, very fortunate. It makes me glad each day.”
