Jennifer Garner Reveals Why She ‘Panicked’ After Her Divorce From Ben Affleck

Jennifer Garner is opening up about life after her split from Ben Affleck.

If you are not aware, Jennifer and Ben were married from 2005 to 2015, with their divorce finalized in 2018.

After their divorce, Jennifer Garner became “panicked”

“I panicked when I was first out of my marriage and realized I had taken such a step back in my work. Suddenly I realized, like, I don’t know how long I’ll be able to work. This isn’t a career that’s like, hey, you’re 60, you’re 55, you’re 43 – come on, let’s pay you more than you’ve ever made. That’s not been traditionally the role,” she said on the “Aspire with Emma Grede” podcast.

“I was suddenly like, wait a minute, I have to take care of myself. I have to take care of these kids. So what is it going to be?” she shared.

The former couple share kids Violet, 20, Fin, 17, and Samuel, 14.

Jennifer Garner and her manager came up with a plan

She said she and her manager got to thinking about her career.

“She was like, how can you work? And I said, I can work in Los Angeles. I can’t leave these kids for six months at a time. I would love to – I love going on location – but that is not this time in my career. And so it’s like, okay, what can we make happen? How can we do it? And we just got really targeted and still about it.”

Her children’s food brand, Once Upon a Farm, was one thing she put her energy into.

“Once Upon a Farm was very much a part of that play. It’s just the crazy thing is it’s working,” she shared.

Her business manager warned her to “pump the brakes” on giving so much money away

About being famous and working, she added, “It’s not like you can just unfamous yourself. Life is expensive and you still have to kind of figure out how you’re going to live. And just because you’re well known by people does not mean that there is some great living being provided for you. And it became very serious to me really quickly as someone who had never given a lot of thought to money. Like, oh, I need to be an earner here.”

Via: Just Jared