{"id":459456,"date":"2026-06-03T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459456\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:20:11","slug":"jennifer-garner-details-upheaval-of-ben-affleck-divorce-effect-on-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459456\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner Details &#8220;Upheaval&#8221; of Ben Affleck Divorce,\u00a0Effect on\u00a0Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Jennifer Garner Details &#8220;Upheaval&#8221; Her Family Experienced After Ben Affleck Divorce<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_garner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Garner<\/a>\u00a0is opening up about a difficult period in her personal life.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a013 Going on 30\u00a0alum\u2014who shares kids\u00a0Violet, 20,\u00a0Seraphina, 17, and\u00a0Samuel, 13, with ex-husband\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ben_affleck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a>\u2014detailed how the former couple\u2019s 2015 split impacted their young family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my kids were little, I worked so little,\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/jennifer-garner-five-star-weekend-interview-2026-11984225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InStyle<\/a>\u00a0in an interview published June 3, \u201cand then we had such an upheaval in our family, that I really hardly worked for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer and Ben <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1416218\/ben-affleck-and-jennifer-garners-close-relationship-after-divorce?query=ben%20affleck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced their breakup in 2015<\/a> before finalizing their divorce three years later. Though the\u00a0Alias\u00a0actress took a step back from acting to focus on her family life, she leaned into that decision even further following\u00a0their split.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all,\u201d she explained, \u201cwhen you&#8217;re in a performance kind of role, you give up a year\/year-and-a-half of performance while you are pregnant, having a baby, recovering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though she still managed to nab roles in\u00a0Juno\u00a0and\u00a0The Kingdom\u00a0during that period\u2014where she was breastfeeding between scenes, according to the outlet\u2014it wasn\u2019t enough for her agent, who suggested Jennifer sign onto 2013\u2019s Academy Award\u2013winning\u00a0film\u00a0Dallas Buyers Club\u00a0or consider retirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner Details &#8220;Upheaval&#8221; Her Family Experienced After Ben Affleck Divorce Jennifer Garner\u00a0is opening up about a difficult&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-459456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}