Jennifer Garner: I Felt "So Fat and Huge and Ugly" Pregnant
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For Halloween 2008, Ben Affleck may have had to answer the dreaded question from wife Jennifer Garner: "Does this outfit make me look fat?" At the time, Garner was seven months pregnant with their second daughter, Seraphina (born in January 2009). Garner's Halloween outfit: "a furry dog" to match the costume of their daughter Violet, now 4 (mother and daughter went as Fred and Ted, pooches from a children's book with the same title). Garner tells W magazine that she felt "so fat and huge and ugly" that day.
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Which is why for Halloween 2009, Garner avoided dressing up altogether while her daughters and Affleck portrayed characters from the Little Mermaid: Violet was Ariel, Seraphim was fishy friend Flounder, and Affleck was Ariel's dad Triton, King of the Sea.
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Costumes or not, Garner is a hands-on mother who even makes her own baby food, she tells W. "I tell myself, just give her a jar of food and forget about it! Don't be so precious! But it's so easy--I just puree and freeze," she says.
Although she's made time for some film work, the actress says the past year or so has been more or less about full-time motherhood. Her schedule: "Getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner."
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"I live my life at these two extremes," she says. "I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.”
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She and Affleck, 37, were married in June 2005, when Garner was three months pregnant with Violet. We were together a year, and we just started breeding,” she jokes. "We were like, 'Let's have a baby!' And eight days later..."
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52To Jay--"Any woman who say she felt beautiful is lying" I felt beautiful, I'm not lying! I used to call myself invincible while I was pregs because I felt so good. My skin and hair and nails looked great, I wore loose comfy clothes. I am sorry you spent your pregnancy miserable, too bad for the baby too,they pick up negative energy. But I loved being pregnant!
Being pregnant is not fat and far from ugly. Why do women do this to each other and themselves? She rich famous and beautiful, but that isn't enough? I am sick of this skinny obsession in Hollywood. It is destructive and disturbing!
Biskit is on crack. WHAT is your post about? When you're pregnant, SOME days you do have FAT days, and other days are great. I'm glad when woman talk about pregnancy and motherhood honestly. We're not martys, just woman that HAPPEN to be mothers. We're flawed in our search of perfection.
jennifer, let me guess. You are an obese fat asss white woman and all your self worth and pride is derived from calling attractive thin women "skeletons" . "You you... skeleton!! Ah, now I feel pretty now. Where. I'm going to bake me a pie and lounge on the couch for 12 hours. That is how us HOT fat women work out" Jen, katie holmes has cute doh eyes. Not sad at all. Unbelievably cute. Look at pictures of her before tom. She looked EXACTLY the same. She to me is one of the cutest women in hollywood. And her smile wow. If I was lucky enough to have her.... I wouldnt have danced on oprah's couch. i would have danced on her ceiling. Toms an underachiever.
Some of you do not understand what she said. She said she felt fat, huge & ugly on that particular day. The person(s) who wrote the article chose to attach her statement to her entire pregnancy and not that particular day. People are being foolish by choosing to ignore this. Also, shame on the media for publishing this fraudulent statement. Jennifer Garner did not attach her feelings to her entire pregnancy. The media enjoys publishing controversial statements and articles so that the public can begin their bash of a celebrity and more magazines can sell off the shelves. Jennifer Garner is a lovely mother and wife. She should be given the respect to be properly quoted by the media. When a celebrity is misquoted or backstabbed, some of the public will swoon like vultures and attack.
To Jay, Do not call me a liar. Hating pregnancy was your experience and that of your friends. As for me, I LOVED every minute of my four pregnancies. I was on cloud nine the entire time. I would have more children, if I could afford to do so, but being blessed with four is truly wonderful.
I loved being pregnant plus that was the hardest my stomach has ever been and ever will be...hard as a rock! :)
ugo!
i so don't see her as gorgeous...blah.
I love my kids to pieces and am a stay a home mom who cooks and cleans and plays and everything. But I HATED being pregnant, and my girlfriends that have kids say the same thing. We ALL hated it, felt fat, ugly, and gross. Thought the entire thing was yucky. 3 wonderful kids, but like so many other pregnant women, refreshing to admit how horrible and gross being pregnant is. Any woman that says she felt beautiful during it is lying thorugh her teeth. Every mom I know hated it. But what you have in the end is good!
she never said that she felt fat for the whole pregnancy or that she didn't like being pregnant. She was talking abut one occasion. Pregnant or not, all women have days when they don't feel their best. Most of us don't have to deal with people taking pictures and publishing them for all to see.
Again, another very misleading headline...'fat,huge and ugly' referring to one photo taken on one day in a Halloween costume...she was not referring to pregnancy in general!
I love this chick. She's adorable.
You people are full of Camel dung, she is beautiful and far from bones. She has that Sydney form back;-) Ben is a lucky man to have gotten to shag JLo and marry Jen:-0 This is one of the finer couples in Hollywood along with his best friend Matt and his lovely wife. Yo KT, she tells the truth I'm sure 90% of the women out their felt the same way during pregnancy;-) Don't be jellin' on her just because your life sux:-)
Some ppl on here are taking her comments so seriously. She didn't say she hated her children or that she regretted ever getting pregnant in the 1st place or anything like that, but you'd think she did with the way some of you are carrying on. Nobody likes to feel fat and unattractive, it sux. EVERYONE would opt for a cute lil pregnancy bod over a big, swollen and ugly one. Plus, what does you not being able to conceive mean to the rest of the world? nada!! Pregnant women shouldn't have to step on eggshells around women whose bodies won't let them conceive and feel guilty for everything they say that may sound anti-pregnancy just because biological children aren't in the cards for some. Some ppl are way too touchy!!
I love her! She is so gorgeous and she and Ben make a great couple. Both their little girls are beautiful and I can't wait to see their little boy.
she is an awful social climber...dumped scott foley for michael vartan for ben afflex...ugh, she makes me sick...poor jen garner, so fat and ugly when shes PREGGARS...boohoo
"fat huge and ugly." Now you honestly look bony, skeletal lollipop and ugly.
Ive always liked this couple! they seem to really enjoy being with each other. I see tom and katie holmes, and katie has sad eyes, like theyre playing some game, but jennifer and ben, always so laid back, i love them, and their babies are so cute!!!
oops, I should have said "angular." You looked like skeletor in some recent pictures- that or a "lollipop."