July 18th 2008 by Chelsea in Ben Affleck, Celebrities, Jennifer Garner, Preggers
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are expecting another baby. This will be the second child for the couple.
Victor Garber, Jennifer Garner’s former co-star on Alias confirmed Jennifer’s pregnancy.
Garber is a reliable source close to the couple, as he officiated their Caribbean wedding back in 2005.
“Yes, she is,” Garber, who currently stars on ABC’s “Eli Stone,” told Us when asked if the rumors of Jennifer Garner’s pregnancy was true.
A source also told
Us, “She is five months pregnant. They are very happy.”
Garner, 36, and Affleck, 35, are parents to 2-year-old daughter Violet Affleck, who is a spitting image of mother Jennifer Garner.
Garner hinted in October that she wanted to have another child.
“We definitely wonder what it would be like to have another — hopefully, knock on wood, someday,” Garner told Britain’s Marie Claire. “My job is great to have as a mom. I get to take breaks and then work in a really concentrated way. During that concentrated time, it sucks, but whatever.”
Congrats to Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck on her pregnancy.
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July 9th 2008 by Alexis in Ben Affleck, Celebrities, Jennifer Garner, Preggers
Hot couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are reportedly having another baby.
They welcomed daughter Violet in December of 2005, and are expecting a new addition to their family next year.
A source says, “A few days before the Fourth of July, Jen began calling close pals with the news that she was pregnant again. Jen said she’s three months along - and she and Ben are ‘ecstatic’.”
The source adds, “She and Ben are still deciding whether they’ll ask the sex of the child.”
Congratulations to them if the rumors are true. Awesome news.
June 27th 2008 by Taylor in Ben Affleck, Celebrities
Oscar winning
Ben Affleck has gone to the Democratic Republic of Congo three times this past year, and in an essay posted on ABC’s Web site, he said he wanted to draw attention to the violence, starvation and disease in the region that kills 1,200 people a day.
His most recent visit to the war-torn eastern Congo, which was filmed for a short documentary for Thursday’s edition of ABC television news program “Nightline.”, was his most harrowing as he met with refugees who had been driven out of their homes by war lords in the region.
Affleck says,
“They’re literally in a living hell and these are teachers, farmers, real, regular people like you and I.
“People came through shooting guns and kicking doors down and burning houses and raping women and they had to run for their lives.” The growing turmoil in Africa’s Congo region has been called one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises this century. Conflicts in the area have caused the death of more than four million people - more than have died in any battle since World War II.
Affleck’s video-documented journey debuted on Thursday’s (Jun 26th 08) episode of U.S. evening news program Nightline.
Accompanying Affleck were producer Max Culhane and cameraman Doug Vogt, who along with ABC journalist Bob Woodruff was injured in a 2006 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. Affleck approached “Nightline” about doing the program.
“It makes sense to be skeptical about celebrity activism,” wrote Affleck, 35, star of movies such as “Hollywoodland” and Oscar winner for the screenplay of “Good Will Hunting.”
“There is always the suspicion that involvement with a cause may be doing more good for the spokesman than he or she is doing for the cause,” Affleck said.
But Affleck said he hoped viewers could separate any reservations about his involvement from “what is unimpeachably important about this segment: the plight of eastern Congo.”
Emily Lenzner, a spokeswoman for ABC News said,
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We basically went with a camera and a producer and just basically followed him around,” Lenzner said. “It was his observations, his journey that we pretty much documented.”
In his essay,
Affleck talked about young boys being widely used as child soldiers and girls being forced into marriage. He said he met with warlords, peacemakers, survivors and aid workers, and he described bands of roaming militias brandishing AK-47s.
On Wednesday, the head of Congo’s U.N. peacekeeping mission said that a million people are prevented from returning to their homes because of frequent suspension of peace talks.
Conflict in eastern Congo has lasted for many years with ethnic violence growing out of neighboring Rwanda’s 1994 genocide in which Hutu extremists attacked Tutsis.
Since 1998, about 5.4 million people are estimated to have died in the Congolese violence and the ensuing humanitarian crisis, most from hunger and disease.
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