Happiness After The Hurt It's Jen's Time To Shine
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ|August 13,2018

Hollywood’s sweetheart is living her best life.

Happiness After The Hurt It's Jen's Time To Shine

As the news exploded in 2015 that indeed her marriage to Ben Affleck was well and truly over, it seemed to Jennifer Garner that her life would never be simple again.

As a working mother-of three – albeit one who earns $10 million per movie – life was often a circus. But now the in-demand celebrity was suddenly juggling even more. An estranged husband who needed treatment in rehab, young children who needed constant reassurance and, of course, her own deep-set heartbreak.

How times change. Three years on, Jennifer, 46, is the first to admit it hasn’t been easy. But finally, thanks to a professional rebirth, she has recently wrapped filming on the first season of HBO comedy Camping, and has become an entrepreneur with her new fresh baby food line, Once Upon a Farm. Along with time and perspective, the actress is a new woman.

“Jen has always had a glass-half-full attitude, even during the roughest of times,” says a source close to the star. But her joy is more noticeable of late. “She’s very happy and in a good place.”

Part of the reason for her buoyancy is that Jennifer’s living the single life for the first time in nearly 20 years and couldn’t be more content.

Married to Scandal star Scott Foley, 46, from 2000 to 2004, she started dating Daredevil co-star Ben, 45, later that year, marrying him in June 2005.

This story is from the August 13,2018 edition of Woman’s Day Magazine NZ.

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