Listen to supermom Jennifer Garner: Stay out of the sun! “Sure, a tan looks good, but it’s not worth messing up your skin long-term,” the actress, whose peaches and cream complexion is testament to her commitment to sun protection, tells Us Weekly.

“It’s important to prioritize sunscreen as a family,” says the mom, who has three kids — Violet, 7, Seraphina, 4, and Samuel, 14 months — with husband Ben Affleck, 40. The Neutrogena spokeswoman, 41, tells Us how she covers her bases.

Wear SPF every day, rain or shine. “I love Neutrogena’s SPF 30 moisturizer with retinol and vitamin C. But if I’m going to the beach, I’ll use a waterproof formula with SPF 70.”

Educate children at an early age. “They do not relish putting on sunscreen everyday, but we make it quick. Ben puts it on the kids when I’m not home and vice versa. If I forget to do it, they’ll remind me.”

Limit time spent outdoors. “When I was younger and on the swim team, I’d try to get more and more tan all year. Now I know it only takes one burn to double your chance of skin cancer later in life.”

Buy 1, donate 1. “You have to be sure your kids are protected from the sun. One bad sunburn in childhood could actually double your child’s odds of developing skin cancer later in life. I love that for the months of May through July, when you buy any Neutrogena product with SPF, Neutrogena will donate one to a family in need. So not only are you doing something good for yourself this summer by being protected, but you’re also doing something for other families, too.”

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Ben Affleck’s next leading role? Mr. Mom! The actor joked with reporters at the premiere of his film, To the Wonder, on Tuesday, April 9 that he’s preparing to be on daddy duty this summer while wife Jennifer Garner goes back to work.

“She told me to go to the gym, I’m preparing myself,” Affleck, 40, joked on the red carpet at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. “I’m going to take on some more of the burden.” (Over the past couple years, Affleck has worked on To The Wonder, Runner, Runner and the Oscar-winning film Argo, which he also directed.)

Aflleck and Garner, both 40, are parents to daughters Violet, 7, Seraphina 4, and son Samuel, 13 months. “She’s got a couple of movies coming up,” Affleck explained. “There’s going to be a little Mr. Mom action and I’m going to get back in the ring.”

In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Garner explained why Affleck takes on more film projects than she does. “I definitely work less because Ben is so busy but we have three kids, that’s just part of the deal. I want to be a mom,” she said. “I’m happy for him that he’s as energized about work right now as he is. He should be out there doing it. That’s just what makes sense for our family.”

But Affleck has been encouraging his wife to get back out there. “Ben’s always saying, ‘You need to work, it’s a part of you and you’re a different person when you’re working,’” Garner said. “I’ve reserved this summer [for work]. It’s mine.’”

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Jennifer Garner, the star of The Odd Life of Timothy Green, talks to Helena de Bertodano about Ben Affleck’s gossip-fuelling Oscars speech, why her career has taken a back seat to his (until now) and how she dealt with being stalked for seven years.

Jennifer Garner is on tenterhooks. She is sure she can hear rustling in the bushes around where we are sitting in the back garden of a house overlooking the Malibu coastline.

She stops talking mid-sentence and sits alert, like a startled animal ready to flee.

‘I thought I heard a paparazzi lens,’ she says, eyes scanning the thick shrubbery around the house (it’s rented for the photo-shoot).

Garner, 40, who stars in the new film The Odd Life of Timothy Green – a fantasy drama about a couple who long for a child and suddenly find themselves the parents of a magical boy – shrugs and starts talking again.

‘Usually I’d see the light on the lens so maybe it’s just the leaves.’ But she remains uneasy. ‘I could swear there is someone there.’ (more…)

Jennifer Garner has been a Neutrogena brand ambassador for six years. She is also an avid sun safety advocate. The beauty of her skin reflects her consistent and proper use of their great products.

I attended a Sun Summit event held by Neutrogena recently. She is also an avid sun-safety advocate. The beauty of her skin reflects her consistent and proper use of their great products. I attended a Sun Summit event held by Neutrogena recently. Jennifer and a panel of professionals updated and enlightened all in attendance on the impact of Global Climate Change — specifically, on skin’s health and ways to protect it.

The statistics were alarming no doubt. But feel comforted in the fact that Neutrogena is on top of it! They’re making products to address the issue of protection and perfection of your precious and irreplaceable skin. I sat with Jennifer to find out her skin care regime and product favorites. (more…)

When it comes to skincare, who better to trust than Jennifer Garner? At 40, she’s a safe sun fanatic, and it shows: her skin is amazing.

“The more that I’ve worked with Neutrogena, the more I’ve learned about skin cancer,” the Neutrogena brand ambassador told PEOPLE at Wednesday’s Neutrogena Sun Summit. “It’s our most common… and most preventable form of cancer.”

Garner admits that in the past, she wasn’t as cautious about it. “When I was really young, no one thought of the sun as being a problem,” Garner says. “We would put on baby oil and lay in the sun to try to get brown.”

As it turns out, however, being a theater kid “saved” her complexion. While her friends spent afternoons tanning, “I was inside in the theater geeking out. My friends called me Casper!”

These days, Garner’s daily makeup routine isn’t complete without SPF. “Right after brushing my teeth and washing my face, I put on sunscreen immediately,” she says. “It has to be in my moisturizer, in my makeup.”

And speaking of her beauty regimen, she shares that she’s happy to have a break from super-glam awards season. Though she says she loved having “such great reasons to get dressed up” (see: husband Ben Affleck’s Oscar win), the late nights out took a toll on her skin.

“There would be nights where we would get home so late for me, like 3:30, 4 in the morning,” she says, “When you’ve been wearing that much makeup for that long, you absolutely have to get it off your skin. There were a couple of nights where I used the Neutrogena makeup remover wipes … Worst case scenario, that’s the way to go!”

Now that it’s all over, Garner has happily returned to her low-maintenance look. “I had a blast,” she says, “but I was certainly fine with just going back to washing my face, a little sunscreen in my moisturizer and putting my hair in a ponytail.”

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Jennifer Garner tries not to look at reviews of the outfits she wears because, inevitably, someone isn’t going to like it.

“It’s not good for my self-esteem,” she said Wednesday while in New York to open the Neutrogena Sun Summit.

The exception was after the Oscars last month. Garner’s violet-colored, custom-made Gucci gown was a winner—but that wasn’t what she was looking for after husband Ben Affleck’s film “Argo” won best picture. “I reveled in all those good pictures of him,” she said.

Garner, a Neutrogena spokeswoman, practices what she preaches when it comes to sun safety. Her children make sure of it.

In her household, sunscreen is like seat belts: non-negotiable. Garner said while she was away Wednesday, the kids surely would remind their dad if he dropped them at school without their daily slathering.

“I think I once told my kids it was against the law not to wear sunscreen,” she said.

Garner’s appearance was followed by a panel discussion that included dermatologists, a NASA scientist and Mexican actress Sandra Echeverria.

An eager science student growing up, Garner, 40, said the conference’s terminology—and warnings—about the ozone layer and ultraviolet rays isn’t lost on her. She joked, though, that she wouldn’t want to be quoted on exactly what the Helioplex formulation is or what vitamin C can do for the skin.

But she had her “a-ha” moment about sun damage in her 20s, when she was out with friends. “They all had big hats on, and I didn’t.”

“Suddenly you look one day and the sun damage is there … and then you see it increase exponentially.”

She’ll take little credit for that Oscar night look—calling it a team effort led by Rachel Zoe. The partnership between Zoe and Garner goes back more than a decade, with Garner as the stylist’s first big Hollywood client.

“She knows I’m not going to wear super-crazy fashion,” said Garner. Where Garner leans toward comfort, Zoe goes for fancy—and “she usually wins.”

Garner’s outfit Wednesday—an Oscar de la Renta sheath dress and pointy-toe pumps in black patent leather—hit the right balance. In her casual style, Garner, wearing a smile, described the look as “just a little purple Oscar number.”

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Ben Affleck should be having the time of his life right now, having just won the Best Picture Oscar for his film, Argo. And he is, despite recent speculative tabloid reports that claim his marriage with wife Jennifer Garner is on the rocks.

“I’ve been able to really just enjoy my good fortune in the last couple of weeks and sit back and kind of just take it in and not do anything, just eat ice cream on the couch,” Ben told reporters at today’s 10th Annual John Varvatos Stuart House Benefit about life post-Oscar. “It’s been a really nice time to hang out with my wife and that sort of thing, so we’re just enjoying it.”

Doesn’t sound very rocky to us. Both Ben and Jennifer stepped out as honorary co-chairs for the fundraiser in support of the Rape Treatment Center.

“There’s a good period of time that I see as an extension of the movie and the work that you put into the movie continues through that time and it’s great in a lot of different ways. And then it ends,” Ben told us about things returning to normal after the chaos of awards season.
He continued, “And now when I spend my time coming out to do events, I choose events like this that have some cause or some benefit other than just trying to go after something for my movie or what have you. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s also important to balance it with this kind of activity too. It just feels good.”

In fact, Ben wasn’t just supporting the Stuart House today, but also his wife, who was the reason he got involved with the organization in the first place and who, for the record, he gushed is “great”:

“This is an organization that my wife got involved with. She hosted this event eight years ago. She told me about it and what she saw at Stuart House,” he explained. “That really stuck with me and I wanted to support it. Particularly, because these kind of causes are thought of largely as women’s issues…If it is just women that stay supporting that and they don’t get any support from men it will always be a little bit marginalized as a women’s thing. And violence, sexual or otherwise, against our fellow human beings is a crime against all of us.”

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Ben Affleck gave an emotional acceptance speech during the Oscars on Sunday, where he thanked wife Jennifer Garner for her part in “working” on their marriage.

Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson caught up with the “Argo” actor/director at the Governor’s Ball, where he continued to speak candidly about his relationship with his actress wife.

“All marriages, all relationships to a certain extent, require your work. They require work and investment,” the Oscar winner said.

The 40-year-old star said neither Jen nor him are without their flaws.

“We work on it together, we try our best, nobody’s perfect. I would be lying to you if I said that either she or I were. She’s more perfect than I am, I can tell you that,” he continued. “We do our best. She’s committed. She’s as committed as I am. We work together, we have three great kids.”

During his speech he thanked their three little ones, Violet, 7, Seraphina, 4, and Sam, 1.

“I don’t know how I got to the place where I had three kids at this point,” the proud dad said.

Before taking the stage after winning the Best Picture award, Ben was also floored by First Lady Michelle Obama’s surprise Oscars appearance — via satellite — when she helped announce the night’s big winner.

“I thought I was like hallucinating, like a pink elephant was going to come in… Michelle Obama? Is she going to read it?” he recalled with a laugh. “She read it out and I was like, ‘Does that mean I win? Or is that just the Michelle Obama Awards?’”

As for host Seth MacFarlane, Ben gave the first-time host kudos for his work.

“Seth did great. I didn’t know how he was going to do going in,” Ben told Shaun. “[During the show,] I said to my wife, ‘This guy is a really talented, talented guy.’”

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Ben Affleck has captivated audiences over the course of this award season, sweeping the competition and coming out on top at every show. But let’s not forget about his wife Jennifer Garner, who was by his side through it all, cheering him on from the sidelines.

The couple made their final stop at the Oscars last night, where Affleck took home the golden statue for Best Picture for his film “Argo.” And as he accepted the Oscar, the director and producer acknowledged the fact that a good marriage takes effort — and that after eight years, three kids and a couple of box office bombs, Garner has stuck with him.

Straying from his usual, “I love you so much, you’re the reason I’m up here,” speech, Affleck thanked Garner by telling her that their marriage is “the best kind of work” — and she cried despite it all.

As did he.

Affleck’s voice cracked while he gazed at a teary-eyed Garner from the stage, saying, “I want to thank my wife … for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work. And there’s no one I’d rather work with.”

The Oscar-winning star got choked up, but continued to thank all those who helped him with the project, as well as his three kids with Garner — Violet, 7, Seraphina, 4, and Sam, 1.

“I was here 15 years ago or something, and had no idea what I was doing. I stood out here in front of you all, really just a kid and I went out and I never thought I’d be back here. And I am. Because of so many of you that are here tonight. Because of the Academy. Because of so many wonderful people who extended themselves to me when they had nothing to benefit from it,” Affleck said. “It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you got to get up. Violet, Sera and Sam, I love you. This is for you.”

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He kept his arm tenderly around her back. She beamed as he told her “I love you” from the stage, and when the show was over, gently reminded him to take his jacket. For Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, the British Academy Film Awards in London on Feb. 10 was another successful date night – and a rare grown-ups’ weekend getaway, with their three kids staying home with Garner’s sister.

Well, almost: “He’s just like a child!” Garner lovingly joked to a friend as she tugged her still-schmoozing husband–who won the night’s two biggest honors for his film Argo – toward the exit. Could an Oscar for Best Picture be his next stop? “This is a second act for me,” he said in his London acceptance speech. “I am so grateful and proud.” As he told PEOPLE recently, “I am very lucky. I have to knock on wood about my life.”

Especially about the woman who’s a lock for Best Supporting Spouse. After seven years of marriage and three kids–Violet, 7, Seraphina, 4, and Samuel, who turns 1 on Feb. 27–Affleck and Garner, both 40, seem to have struck that rarest of things for a Hollywood couple: balance. It’s an old-fashioned arrangement, with Garner handling most of the day-to-day responsibility for keeping the children’s schedules humming while Affleck rides his Argo hot streak – including Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe wins, despite a snub for the Oscar directing category.

“I’ve got a great family; I’m really inspired by where my career is,” Affleck says. “I’ve seen a lot of different things rambling around in this business, and I’m just really, really happy to find myself where I am.”

Several sources who know the couple well say that both stars are at ease in their “quite traditional roles,” as a Garner friend puts it. Garner dialed back on her own career to commit herself to making the ballet-karate-playdate rounds.

“She blows my mind,” says Affleck’s Argo costar Clea Duvall. “She’s such an amazing mom and such an amazing wife and so supportive of him. It’s just . . . they’re kind of the ideal.” Although Affleck has made his share of school runs during a busy awards season, in many ways he’s an old-fashioned dad.

Says a source who knows the couple: “Have you ever seen Mad Men? That’s how he approaches [marriage and kids] – providing for your family is your priority, and raising the kids day-to-day is the wife’s priority.” But when he’s not working, he’s plenty hands-on, reading to the girls at bookstores and taking them to the farmers’ market. “His wife and family are the best things that ever happened to him,” says an Affleck pal. “They have always come first and always will.”

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