 Jennifer
Garner, fellow actor as well as wife to
Ben Affleck, and mom
to their daughter Violet Anne
told Allure magazine that nursing was very different to what she
was expecting.
She said "All I ever heard was everyone bitch about
it, nobody ever said, 'You are not going to believe how
emotional this is.' It's like, I'll say I'm going to stop, and
then I'm in there, feeding her"
When Jen was away from
Violet overnight for the first time while doing press for
Catch and Release she said "Ben
has a stash of two-ounce bottles of breast milk."
"While filming 'The Kingdom' Violet would be there on set, and I
would feed her and then go back out. I was covered in
blood and mud and dirt, and so her little sweet pink outfits
would be caked in fake blood by the time she went home.
She had blood across her forehead, and you don't want to see
that on a little one."
Nursing wasn't the
weight loss solution Jen was expecting, she said "It
happened to a lot of my girlfriends and sisters, and I really
thought, 'This is the ticket, the best diet in the world'
and it just wasn't. I kept waiting, and I just didn't lose
weight. It took six months before I did. I also,
though, used breastfeeding as an excuse to eat whatever I
wanted. I've always had a flat stomach, and now everyone's
just always going to think I'm two months pregnant for the rest
of my life!"
Jennifer found she didn't care, she liked her new curves and
said "I could not motivate myself to work out. I
wasn't going to give up that time with Violet, and if she was
asleep, I wanted to sleep, because I was working. It just
didn't seem important., my body felt so much more balanced out.
Because I've always had a biscuit (her term for her butt) and
I've never had boobs, and so I finally felt like, 'Oh, this is
how it's supposed to be!"
At the Academy Awards in
2006, Jennifer tripped on stage. She laughs as she recalls
"Jack Nicholson
was in the audience in front of me, and halfway through
the night he said, 'Jennifer Garner's going to be able to feed
the whole row!'
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