Ben Affleck adores the youngsters he shares with ex Jennifer Garner.
“I couldn’t be extra pleased with my youngsters, I can’t even let you know,” the actor-producer gushed to Entry Hollywood on the Monday, October 6 premiere of Kiss of the Spider Girl in New York Metropolis.
When requested about his eldest daughter, Violet, he replied, “She takes after her mother. She’s spectacular. And I’m very fortunate that I received an excellent companion and we’ve received nice youngsters. It’s the enjoyment of my life, and I’m simply very, very fortunate. It makes me pleased every single day.”
Affleck and Garner, each 53, tied the knot in 2005, and later welcomed Violet, 19, Fin, 16, and Samuel, 13. The couple separated in 2015 and finalized their divorce three years later. Affleck rekindled his romance with Jennifer Lopez in 2021, marrying her the next yr. In August 2024, Lopez, 56, filed to divorce Affleck after two years of marriage.
On Monday, Affleck and Lopez reunited on the crimson carpet to have fun Kiss of the Spider Girl, through which she stars. The movie, produced by Affleck’s manufacturing firm, Artist’s Fairness, hits theaters Friday, October 10.
Whereas talking to Further, Affleck declared that his former spouse is “wonderful” within the film and praised her work ethic, saying that she gave “her all” to the function of Hollywood starlet Ingrid Luna within the adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical.

Violet Affleck and Jennifer Garner on the White Home in 2022. Nathan Howard/Getty Pictures
“She labored enormously exhausting,” he stated. “You get to see, like, all of her many presents, she’s someone that grew up watching, you recognize, traditional musicals.”
As for Violet, now a school freshman, she’s paving her personal path within the highlight as a public well being advocate. In September, she delivered a speech in assist of masks mandates on the United Nations, addressing the significance of fresh air and masking to stop the transmission of lengthy Covid.
Garner and Violet have maintained a robust mother-daughter bond via the years. Whereas the Affleck youngsters have remained largely out of the highlight, Violet was current when Garner received a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame and for a public go to to the White Home in 2022.
Affleck and Garner are “dedicated to doing the perfect they will” for the sake of their youngsters, a supply completely instructed Us Weekly in 2020. “It’s all the time a piece in progress. … If they’ve variations, they preserve it to themselves and don’t let it have an effect,” the insider added. “They all the time placed on pleased faces for the children and put their well-being first.”