Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s daughter Violet Affleck returns to Los Angeles after completing her second year at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The 20-year-old kicks off her summer break with a casual outing, notably removing her face mask for the first time in public recently.
Family Treat at Brentwood Country Mart
Violet joins her mother, 54-year-old Jennifer Garner, and younger brother Samuel, 14, at Sweet Rose Creamery inside the Brentwood Country Mart near their home. The trio picks up ice cream cones, dressed in relaxed summer attire. Their sibling Finn stays home for the excursion.
Violet sports a stylish Chappell Roan T-shirt, two-toned jeans, a pink crossbody purse, black sneakers, and prescription glasses. She carries her mask in hand rather than wearing it. Typically, Violet dons face masks as a health precaution after contracting a post-viral condition in 2019. She actively advocates for mask-wearing in public spaces.
Garner wears a red-and-black shirt, black exercise leggings, sneakers, and sunglasses. Samuel opts for a white T-shirt with a neck chain, green sweatpants, and sneakers.
Next-Day Drive-Thru Visit
The following day, Violet appears masked in a car with her mother, grabbing drive-through takeout from In-N-Out Burger.
Co-Parenting After Divorce
Garner and Affleck married in 2005, welcomed three children, and divorced in 2015 after a decade together. Both prioritize co-parenting effectively. On Bustle’s One Nightstand podcast, Garner shares: “When your kids grow up in two separate households, I become mom and dad, and he becomes dad and mom. You kind of can’t help it, right? Because you don’t have the benefit of both sides, the yin and yang being in the same house, so you have to have a bit of both in the way you parent. There’s a little bit of loss in that, but there’s also something gained in that… You also just learn, it’s made me let go and not focus so much on the bringing up.”
Post-divorce, Garner describes Affleck as the love of her life in a 2016 Vanity Fair interview: “I didn’t marry the big fat movie star; I married him. And I would go back and remake that decision. I ran down the beach to him, and I would again. You can’t have these three babies and so much of what we had. He’s the love of my life. We still have to help each other get through this [divorce]. He’s still the only person who really knows the truth about things. And I’m still the only person that knows some of his truths.”
Affleck echoes the sentiment on Good Morning America in 2020: “I didn’t want to get divorced, I didn’t want to be a divorced person, I really didn’t want to be a split family with my children. It upset me because it meant I wasn’t who I thought I was and that was so painful and so disappointing. In myself. When you have children with somebody, you’re connected to them forever. And I’m very lucky she [Garner] is the mother of my children. I’m very grateful and respectful of her. Our marriage didn’t work, and that’s difficult. Both of us really believe that it’s important for kids to see their parents respect one another and get along, whether they’re together or not.”
