Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner put lots of effort into elevating well-adjusted kids amid the obstacles imposed by their A-lister standing. However no matter what they did, their three youngsters might by no means escape the eye. As such, the general public acquired to witness Violet Affleck remodel from a child to a younger grownup. Regardless of her younger age, the eldest Affleck child has made headlines all through the years for the refined methods she’s discovered to precise her opinions.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Violet turned identified for being one of many few folks in Hollywood to proceed sporting a masks lengthy after mandates have been lifted. With out uttering a phrase, she confirmed her continued considerations over the long-lasting results of the coronavirus. Violet reworked right into a politically engaged younger lady, a spirit she had proven when she was as younger as 5. Her activist facet blossomed regardless that Garner was a bit too controlling in her early years.

“I used to be such a first-time mother. [My eldest daughter] did not have a shot. She could not have a free thought — I used to be throughout her,” Garner advised Attract in 2023. “I used to be a nightmare for everybody round me.” In hindsight, she realized she doubtless had little management over who Violet would find yourself being. “Your youngsters will actually work out who they’re and what they’re after they’re older, and most definitely they are going to hew towards beautiful,” she added. She was most likely proper, as Violet turned out to be a robust, unbiased thinker.

When Violet Affleck was born in December 2005, her mom was on the peak of her profession. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, already a well-established mega film star on the time, had been courting for simply over a yr, and curiosity within the energy couple was additionally at an all-time excessive. Violet got here alongside six months after Garner and Affleck quietly tied the knot in June 2005. “Mom, father and child are doing nice,” their reps advised Immediately. They did not share some other particulars. 

Given their fame, Garner and Affleck got down to defend their kid’s privateness from the get-go. However their purpose proved rather a lot tougher to concretize. Paparazzi adopted them all over the place, and footage of child Violet made the pages of magazines early on. Whereas she vowed to maintain Violet out of the highlight, Garner was much more open about sharing her expertise as a first-time mother in interviews. In 2007, she gushed over Ben’s parenting abilities.

It turned out Violet was a complete daddy’s woman. “You understand how as a child you image your self with a tall, good-looking husband, and also you think about him cuddling your child? Ben is like that, like, on crack,” she advised InStyle (through Individuals). Garner fell in love with their bond and by no means acquired bored with watching the 2 of them collectively. “Nothing makes me happier than to see the 2 of them collectively and her little arms on his face. He has a prevailing calm,” she stated.

Violet Affleck has been standing up for what she believes in since earlier than she might pronounce her Rs. The paparazzi did not simply trouble Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. Their fixed presence scared Violet and prevented her from having a standard childhood. So when Garner organized a gathering with native authorities to request heightened safety for her kids circa 2010, her eldest did not hesitate to share her views. “Violet’s hyper-articulate — she is Ben Affleck’s daughter,” Garner advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2021.

The then-kindergartner climbed onto a chair, appeared the authority figures within the eye, and advised them how she felt. “We did not ask for this. We do not need these cameras, they’re scary. The lads are scary, they knock one another over and it is arduous to really feel like a child once you’re being chased,” she stated, as Garner recalled. They acquired in the best way of her hobbies, like sports activities. “My one daughter tried to play soccer, and it was such a zoo for the households that they simply stated, ‘Are you able to please not?'” she stated on “Inform Me Extra With Kelly Corrigan” in 2020.

That is why the COVID-19 pandemic introduced respite to the household. Despite the fact that it was a tough time for all, Garner advised The Hollywood Reporter she and her youngsters might take pleasure in some normalcy open air for the primary time. Once they requested their mother why they hadn’t performed on the seashore earlier than, she responded: “We would attempt to go and we would simply get chased away [by the camera scrum].” 

Of their quest to provide their kids a standard childhood, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck restricted their entry to expertise. Violet Affleck did not get a laptop computer till she was in fifth grade. And even then, Garner nonetheless thought it was too early. Throughout a back-to-school occasion in 2016, academics suggested that the tweens wanted entry to a pc for homework. The “Alias” alum balked on the thought however then realized Violet was the one child in her class with out one.

Shortly after, Garner relented. “I discovered an previous laptop computer this weekend for her, and I’m type of panicked about it,” she advised Immediately. However simply because she was permitting Violet to have a pc did not imply she would get to do no matter she needed with it. “She’s not on social media but — her faculty has a no social media coverage till sixth grade — however I do know it is coming quickly,” Garner stated. Nevertheless, she continued to exert her authority as a guardian, even after Violet’s faculty allowed social media.

In 2019, Garner nonetheless hadn’t allowed Violet to hitch Instagram. “I simply say, ‘When you’ll be able to present me research that say that teenage ladies are happier utilizing Instagram than not, then we are able to have the dialog,'” she stated on the “Subsequent Query with Katie Couric” podcast. However it was a private battle for Garner as a result of she used it. “I’m modeling the other of what I would like for her to do,” she admitted.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck acquired divorced in 2017, when their eldest was 11. Regardless of the break up of her household, Violet Affleck remained shut with each dad and mom. Violet has been seen strolling round together with her mom continuously through the years, however the teenager can also be identified for spending high quality time together with her father. She felt snug sufficient with him to poke enjoyable at his work. “[For] my oldest daughter, I am already embarrassing, you realize what I imply?” he advised ET in 2017. “I am like, ‘How can I be embarrassing? I am Batman. That embarrasses you?’ She’s like, ‘Dad, decide me up down the road.'”

Violet additionally teased him over his texting talents — or lack thereof. When she realized he had been added to a gaggle textual content together with his a lot youthful co-stars, she knowledgeable her father he was displaying his age. “My daughter is so humorous, she teases me, she’s 14 and he or she’s like ‘Why do they allow you to on this group chat? You do not know what you are speaking about. Do not fake you’ve got any thought what is going on on,'” he stated throughout a screening of “The Method Again” in 2020 (through Individuals).

Despite the fact that she teases him, Ben’s shut relationship together with his daughter Violet has been evident of their outings. In 2022, father and daughter strolled the streets of Savannah, Georgia, with arms locked. And Violet was at all times shut by on Ben and Jennifer Lopez’s honeymoon in Paris, which neither appeared to thoughts.

Violet Affleck could stay out of the highlight, however that does not imply she would not use her voice to face up for what she believes in. Violet’s willingness to share her experiences with authorities did not cease in kindergarten. As a youngster and younger grownup, she continued to carry consideration to social and political points. At a July 2024 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors assembly, she shared her experiences with a post-viral situation to advocate for masks mandates in authorities buildings, healthcare amenities, and jails.

However she would not solely share her stances in direct methods. Violet has additionally propagated her concepts not directly by her garments and equipment. In Might 2024, she was photographed strolling with Jennifer Garner whereas carrying Steven Thrasher’s “The Viral Underclass,” a guide that discusses well being crises from an inequality perspective (seen above). Across the identical time, Violet was additionally captured donning a pro-Palestinian T-shirt.

Violet’s dad and mom could not agree together with her each opinion, however they’re happy with the sturdy lady they raised. “I believed, ‘I’ll stay a lifetime of which my daughter will be proud’ — which is ironic as a result of she’s a Marxist and I’ve now disgraced her by turning into a capitalist,” Ben Affleck stated at a New York Instances 2022 Dealbook convention, referring to his choice to launch a manufacturing firm, Artists Fairness (through Gawker). It is unclear what Violet will go on to do, however the Yale pupil is actually a pressure to be reckoned with.