Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing the lovely Jennifer Garner to talk about the new campaign she is promoting as a brand ambassador for Frigidaire. I first spoke to Jen back in July in New York, but since this interview was LA-based, we had a nice chat over the phone. As I said after I interviewed her this summer, she is 100% just as sweet as she seems!

The first thing I did was to congratulate Jennifer on her pregnancy, and I asked her how she is feeling. She said that she is doing well, and that she is finally “past all the yucky stuff!” (more…)

Who doesn’t love Jennifer Garner?

The fresh-faced beauty from West Virginia is an incredibly talented actress who defies typecasting. She was as convincing as an international assassin in “Elektra” as she was playing a gawky teenage girl trapped in an adult’s body in “13 Going On 30.” She’s also married to actor Ben Affleck, with two beautiful daughters and a third baby on the way. Plus, when she’s not balancing a successful career with raising a family, Jennifer is an active advocate for Save the Children – an organization that works to improve childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition.

“One of five kids in our country live in poverty,” she said. “They don’t get the food and resources they need, much less the reds, yellows and greens they should have in their diet. We want to teach children how to eat healthy while they’re young.” (more…)

Jennifer Garner isn’t necessarily a political junkie, but she’s spending a lot of time fielding questions about the politics behind her new comedy, Butter, which is teeming with satirical references to the Clintons, Sarah Palin, and Michele Bachmann — it even features a butter carving of Newt Gingrich on a horse! Then again, Laura Pickler, the conniving wife of Iowa’s outgoing butter sculpture champion (Ty Burrell) is a side of Garner we’ve never seen before. Foul-mouthed and ruthless, she terrifies anyone — even adorable 10-year-old orphans — who deigns threaten her grip on power. (more…)

Four months pregnant and wearing six-inch heels, Jennifer Garner outlasted me at the chic InStyle party Tuesday night at the Windsor Arms Hotel as she celebrated a standing ovation from the audience at the gala premiere of Butter at Roy Thomson Hall.

Garner, who also produced the comedy, stars as an occasionally potty-mouthed Iowa competitive butter carver, who takes over from her retired husband (Modern Family’s Ty Burrell) to vie for the state championship, with an eye to riding her popularity all the way to the governor’s mansion — and beyond. What she doesn’t count on is a 10-year-old carving whiz (newcomer Yara Shahidi). (more…)

Jennifer Garner announced that she was pregnant with her third child just weeks before hitting the film-festival circuit with her new comedy, “Butter.”

Any of the bleary-eyed celebs wandering Toronto can attest to the grind of a film festival, from the red carpets to day-long press junkets to glad-handing at parties all night — but handling it while dealing with the typical discomforts of pregnancy would seem even tougher.

Yet Garner says she’s taking it in stride. (more…)

Showing a noticeable baby bump, Jennifer Garner is at the Telluride Film Festival for the world premiere of her Middle America satire, ‘Butter,’ in which she plays a Michele Bachmann clone. The actress opens up about her pregnancy, her new movie, her conservative West Virginia upbringing, and how she balances acting and raising two daughters with husband Ben Affleck.

In the five years since J. J. Abrams’s spy show Alias ended its run, quite a bit has happened in the life of its former star, Jennifer Garner. While the actress did rack up four consecutive Golden Globe nominations as ass-kicking CIA agent Sydney Bristow, she’s since had two girls with husband Ben Affleck (whom she married in 2005), starred in films ranging from action-thriller The Kingdom to indie dramedy Juno, made her Broadway debut opposite Kevin Kline in Cyrano de Bergerac, and is currently expecting her third child.
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Can you tell us why the Save the Children charity is important to you?

Children growing up in poverty have a much higher propensity for obesity, which means that by the time they’re four years old, they are a year-and-a-half behind developmentally, which means that when they start school, they’re already starting back on their heels instead of running at a full tilt like every kindergartener should be. It’s not a fair start, and it leads to high school dropout because you’re playing catchup right from the beginning.

So I believe in what Save the Children is doing to reach kids from 0-5 and their parents, to get them started on the right foot, to make sure that their vocabulary is enriched, that they have kindergarten-readiness skills like sitting in a circle, and to get books into the parents’ hands so they can get them into their kids’ hands.

Once the kids are in school, Save the Children helps them catch up with literacy programs, making sure they learn about healthy eating, that they get a little bit of exercise every day. I love the program so much. I’m completely devoted to them. (more…)

Hollywood actress and activist Jennifer Garner applauded the Obama administration on Capitol Hill for funding “innovative” early learning programs but said that more needs to be done.

“Last week, President Obama, such great news, he delivered on 500 million dollars for innovative early learning programs. I was proud to fight for this funding with Save the Children alongside our allies like the First Five Fund,” she said in a press conference at the Capitol with Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Mark Shriver, the Vice President of Save the Children on Wednesday. (more…)

Four years after Jennifer Garner kicked her last enemy-of-the-state ass as Sydney Bristow on Alias, the actress and Victor Garber (who played her elusive father on the ABC series) got together for EW’s Reunions issue. In a New York City hotel room on a misty end-of-summer day, the duo posed for pictures with the kind of ease that only the closest friends share. Which is exactly what the former co-stars are. (Garber officiated at Garner’s wedding to Ben Affleck in 2005.) So did the shoot feel like an Alias reunion — or just two friends happily passing some time together? “Well, the fact that we’re in hair and makeup and kind of posey reminds me of the show because we haven’t worked together since then,” Garner told us. “But if it were Alias-y, I would be like this,” she said, crossing her arms Sydney Bristow style. “And you,” she continued, turning to Garber, “would have your hands straight down to the side.”
“I am like this!” Garber joked, striking a rigid, Jack Bristow stance. “We saw each other a couple of days ago. This is just, there are more people around taking pictures. Which is, you know —”
“Hilarious!” Garner interjected.
“Hilarious, yes,” Garber agreed. “We’ve had a good time. We generally have a good time.”

Source: http://popwatch.ew.com/