{"id":7597,"date":"2025-09-07T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7597\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:12:10","slug":"ben-affleck-and-jennifer-garner-are-all-smiles-on-rare-family-outing-with-their-younger-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7597\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are all smiles on rare family outing with their younger kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took their two younger kids to see a movie in Los Angeles on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

In photos, the formerly married pair stepped out with kids Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13. The \u201cAlias\u201d actress, 53, rocked a casual, makeup-free vibe in a button-down sweater and jeans, while the \u201cAccountant 2\u201d actor, also 53, wore a navy blue hoodie jacket with tan pants and a white T-shirt.<\/p>\n

Seraphina wore navy blue athletic pants with a jacket and sneakers, while Samuel donned a short-sleeved, collared gray shirt and black pants.<\/p>\n

The group chatted happily while heading into the building\u2019s entrance, where Affleck\u2019s mother, Chris Bolt, waited for them \u2014 with Affleck walking ahead of his ex-wife and kids. In a couple of snaps, Garner appeared to look directly at a photographer while flashing a huge smile.<\/p>\n

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were spotted taking kids Seraphina and Samuel to a movie on Friday. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

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The family wore casual attire for the outing. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

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In several photos, the \u201cAir\u201d star walked slightly ahead of his ex-wife and kids. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

Missing from the family outing was the pair\u2019s daughter Violet, 19, whom they saw off to Yale University <\/a>last August \u2014 just before Affleck\u2019s ex-wife Jennifer Lopez filed to divorce him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Affleck and Garner were last spotted out with Samuel and Seraphina in July, when the exes teamed up to take their kids to a Red Sox game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a clip\u00a0shared to X<\/a>\u00a0by the MLB at the time, the \u201cGone Girl\u201d actor donned a green ball cap and plaid shirt while chatting up Garner, who wore a striped T-shirt and messy ponytail.<\/p>\n

The former couple was flanked by their children, who appeared to be enjoying the mid-summer baseball outing with their famous parents.<\/p>\n

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The famous family made their way toward the building\u2019s entrance for the feature. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

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They happily chatted on their way in. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

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The exes were seen meeting up with Affleck\u2019s mom, Chris Bolt. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

Garner and Affleck married in 2005 and filed for divorce in 2017. However, they didn\u2019t finalize the split until over a year later, in 2018.<\/p>\n

Though Garner called Affleck the \u201clove of [her] life\u201d in an interview with Vanity Fair following their 2016 separation, the \u201cAir\u201d star would go on to rekindle a romance with Lopez, 56, to whom he\u2019d broken off an engagement in 2004.<\/p>\n

The former couple went on to elope in a romantic impromptu Las Vegas wedding<\/a> in July 2022, followed by a lavish ceremony for friends and family at Affleck\u2019s Georgia estate<\/a> a month later.<\/p>\n

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The family outing excluded daughter Violet, who\u2019s away at college. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

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The ex-couple was seen at a Red Sox game with their two youngest kids in July. Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Affleck and Garner married in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2018. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

Lopez \u2014 who shares twins Max and Emme Muniz, 17, with ex-husband Marc Anthony \u2014 also called Affleck the \u201clove of [her] life\u201d in her 2024 documentary \u201cThe Greatest Love Story Never Told.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former couple split later that year and finalized their divorce<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Affleck and Garner have continued to amicably co-parent their children \u2014 despite Garner\u2019s apparently serious relationship with John Miller, 47, whom she was seen passionately kissing<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

But a source told Page Six in March, after Affleck was seen embracing Garner during a paintball outing<\/a> with their kids, that the CaliBurger CEO wasn\u2019t thrilled with their apparent PDA.<\/p>\n

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He went on to marry former fianc\u00e9e Jennifer Lopez. Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Affleck and Garner continue to co-parent amicably, though a source previously told Page Six Garner\u2019s longtime partner John Miller issued her an ultimatum over her super friendly outings with her ex-husband. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

The insider told us at the time that Miller \u201chas always been supportive of Ben and Jen\u2019s co-parenting relationship but feels Ben crossed the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

They added, \u201cJohn\u00a0knows there\u2019s nothing going on\u00a0between Jen and Ben, but he doesn\u2019t think those photos are a good look and feels it\u2019s disrespectful to their relationship<\/a>.\u201d According to the insider, Miller \u201cgave Jen an ultimatum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to see anything like that again or he has no choice but to walk away,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took their two younger kids to see a movie in Los Angeles on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9898,9896,430,9900,156,9899,9902,9895,9897,111,139,69,9901],"class_list":{"0":"post-7597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-affleck-and-garner","9":"tag-ben-affleck","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-chris-bolt","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-family-outing","14":"tag-garner-and-affleck","15":"tag-jennifer-garner","16":"tag-jennifer-lopez","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-seraphina"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","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=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}