I very much enjoyed reading the article on Jennifer Garner in Marie Claire. She is awesome. I adore her. Even before she and Ben came out as a couple, I was one of her biggest fans. (I kinda liked him too). I am so pulling for them. They are both so laid back (not the usual Hollywood type of celebrities). For me that is the greatest attraction they hold for me. I am so happy they found each other and I have mixed feeling regarding the paparazzi invading their privacy. On the one hand I am so eager to see them in candid shots just hanging out with their little Violet,but I also feel badly that they are unable to go anywhere without being photographed..I guess it’s like some others’ comments before me, high profile people hold an interest for their fans. It’s part of the territory. Jen looked great in those shots from the magazine.

Thank you Sarah and Teiko for clearing that up that does make sense.

I love her! I think Jen and Ben are perfect and their little Vi is too cute! Jen looks stunning!

She gave a great interview, and I would be pretty damn proud if my man gave up smoking for the family as a whole. Sweet gesture to me!

And she looks pretty damn amazing in the photos from the magazine!

Come on folks, name one person who has NEVER complained about a certain aspect of their job in their life. My husband, who loves his job, sometimes complains about certain things that he has to do or put up with on the job. However, he would never leave his post because he hates those particular things. Everyone has a gripe about their jobs at some point. That’s part of life. It doesn’t mean that they hate what they are doing or that they want to quit or that they are going to seek another form of employment. It just means that if there was one thing they could do without on the job, XYZ would be that one thing. For some celebs that XYZ happens to be the papparazzi. Yes they know that it is a part of their job and that it comes with the territory but it doesn’t for one second mean that they have to like the Paps or that they can’t wish that things were different. Anyone would be annoyed if they had people following them with cameras constantly even as they tried to perform simple tasks like going to the grocery store or going to the doctor. It’s not like Jennifer Garner is rude to the Paps or the press at all. In fact, I have always seen her be very nice and accommodating. However, she is allowed to be annoyed that she can’t have private moments with her baby without someone snapping her picture. The great thing about Jennifer and a lot of celebs like her is that she hardly ever shows that annoyance in public.

Once somebody buys a magazine article with a picture scans and interviews of a celeb, they can do whatever they want to with their purchased magazine.

Actually, that’s not true. You can do certain things, like resell the magazine, but from a copyright perspective, you can’t scan the whole thing and put it on the internet. There are probably certain fair use exceptions (like posting thumbnails of photos), but scanning the entire article is likely a violation of copyright law. (Whether it would be enforced is an entirely different issue. Just because no one complains doesn’t mean a violation didn’t happen.)

Sarah’s note: Yes, there are very specific rules that vary from magazine to magazine. For example, we can’t use whole magazine pages (hence why we do photo and interview highlights), they can’t be more than a certain size, and everything must be sourced meticulously.

I aree 100% with Tary. You can Garner is very much a media ‘whore’ just like any other actress. If she didn’t want so much paparazzi attention then she wouldn’t be out and about is conspicuous places all the time. And if she think she puts Violet as #1 that is not true- she’d be living on the easts coast or somewhere more private for the sake of Violet but she doesn’t! She lives right there in L.A. so she won’t miss any job opportunities. Really makes me sick, just like most other celebrities moms.

MY OPINION is some celebs are like,
“Don’t take pictures of me when I’m doing normal things but hey, I’m doing a movie or an albulm and need some news coverage, so now you are allowed to take pictures of me and put them on eonline, news clips, tabloids and I’ll do some magazine articles and by the way, I’ll be on Jay Leno tonight to promote my new movie or albulm, so you guys can support it and my lifestyle, but after the movie and albulm promotions, it’s back to giving me and my family some privacy”. Whatever, you can’t have it both ways. I feel either they should stay out of the media period and live a low life or hush up and continue to deal with not having any privacy and keeping your name out to the public, to help further your future career moves.

And CBB shows a lot of magazine scans of pictures and interviews of celebs and if they didn’t want those scanned and on the net, then they shouldn’t have done the interview. Once somebody buys a magazine article with a picture scans and interviews of a celeb, they can do whatever they want to with their purchased magazine.

She really does seem like a great mother and they seem like a very happy family.

SHE IS SO DOWN TO EARTH. SHE IS RIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR GENERATION AND NOT HAVING THE SUPPORT. I’M ALMOST 40 WITH FOUR KIDS AND MY MOM NOR MY MOTHER N’ LAW NEVER BREAST FED (MY FRIENDS DID NOT EITHER)SO IT WAS JUST BABY AND ME.PAINFUL MISTAKES AND LEASONS. I THINK THAT WAS THE HARDEST AND ISOLATED EXPERIENCE OF ALL. BUT WE DID IT AND I LEARNED ALL BY MYSELF. AND NOW I HELP OTHERS. AS FOR THE PAPS I DO FEEL GUILTY SEEING PICS OF HER AND OTHER CELEBS WITH THEIR CHILDREN. IN MY TRAVELS WITH MY CHILDREN I HAVE COME ACROSS CELEBS AND THEIR CHILDREN AND I NEVER APROACH NOR DO I TAKE A PHOTO. I FIGURE IF THEY ARE WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND THEY ARE AT DISNEY OR SOMEWHERE ELSE, THAT IS A FAMILY VACATION AND I HAVE NO BUSINESS TALKING TO THEM OR PHOTOGRAPHING THEM. ALTHOUGH I DO LIKE READING ABOUT THEM IN INTERVIEWS THAT THEY GIVE.
WHEN SHE SPOKE ABOUT HOW BEN QUIT SMOKING AND THAT IT WAS THE BEST GIFT BEN HAD GIVEN HER AND THEIR BABY. THAT IS TRULY A SPECIAL GIFT. NO MONEY OR JEWLERY IN THE WORLD CAN MAKE A PERSON MORE HEALTHY THAN TO STOP A CANCER STICK HABIT.

I have never seen any pic of Ben smoking near Violet. He smoked while Jen was pregnant, there are plenty of photos to prove it, but I am sure Jen knows for sure, if she says so, then she is right.